http://www.kindavegan.com Is it better to look good than to eat well? Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:25:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I forgot to post my weight loss update this past Monday... good news, as my weight chart shows, I dropped a little over a pound last week. I'm now down over 10 pounds since I went vegan in late January. My wife is commenting on the visible difference it's making ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/04/02/diet-progress-report-5/ Just did this week's weigh-in-- pleased to report that I'm down just over 1/2 pound this week. Actually, I was on track to do better than that, but I had a day off from the diet on Easter Sunday. Ham, pie, cake, scalloped potatoes, chocolate--- all the things I'm not ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/24/diet-progress-report-4/ After a disappointing weigh-in last week (when I didn't lose any weight), I made great progress in this past week. This morning I was down 2 pounds from a week ago. Excellent! Glad to see it moving in the right direction. Had a good week working out, I only took off ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/17/diet-progress-report-3/ Just a little bit of evidence that you can indeed have a decent burger-and-onion rings meal while remaining vegan... here is Friday night's tasty dinner. Gardenburger garnished with sprouts, tomato, and roasted peppers, along with organic onion rings and chickpea salad. Beer is still vegan, right? Good.  http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/15/tasty-vegan-burger-dinner/ I'm a big fan of the backyard BBQ. So is my wife, since BBQ night is the night that I'm primarily in charge of the cooking for once. I rule the charcoal grill like a modern day Colossus. (At least at my own house I do). The weather has been starting ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/12/my-first-vegan-bbq/ One effect of the vegan diet which I've been noticing is that I've been getting really hungry at mealtimes (which I guess shouldn't be too surprising), and I've been packing away food in larger volumes than I have in the past. Typically, I would often fill up relatively quickly when ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/11/one-hungry-hombre/ Time for the weekly progress report... First off, disappointing week on the weight loss front, since my weight stayed the same at just over 215. I'm not tooo concerned about that, since I think it's just part of natural ebb and flow of weight-- you really don't ever just go straight ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/10/diet-progress-report-2/ Let's rev up those paranoia levels, people! Apparently, evidence is starting to appear that the high levels of drugs consumed in the US are working their way into the water supply as water is recycled from waste to your kitchen faucet. Consider this snippet from AP Probe Finds Drugs in ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/10/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water/ For the latest outrage from China, check out Olympics clean up Chinese style: Inside Beijing's shocking death camp for cats. Apparently, as part of the pre-Olympic hysterical nationwide house-cleaning, the Chinese have been spreading propoganda that cats are responsible for all manner of illnesses and danger, and as a result, have ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/09/chinas-olympic-cat-nap/ This is kind of interesting. You wouldn't think of fast-food and vegan or vegetarian going together in the same sentence, but turns out there are several meatless fast food joints around the world. New York (of course... they also have a restaurant devoted to PB&J), Berlin, and Boulder (the hippie ... http://www.kindavegan.com/2008/03/08/fast-food-hold-the-beef/