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I already answered why I’m doing this. Again, I’m not here to debate the merits of the vegan lifestyle. While running marathons is ridiculously hard and takes a huge mental effort to get through, ask your marathon runner friend what his toenails look like after running 26.2 miles. Running marathons is not a life I personally want to live. But if he’s happy with himself, then who am I to judge him? Whatever path he takes to happiness is his choice. I asked earlier about the negative perception from family and friends because it’s real. Look how many people here want to throw shade at my choice, and my life is completely irrelevant to yours. Now imagine if I was your cousin, friend or even your spouse?

No worries!! I definitely was not happy at that weight. Being 30 years old at the time, it didn’t “hurt” but I didn’t feel good about myself. That said, if you really subscribe to the macro culture, it says I need to consume 180 grams of protein. Protein is important no doubt, but I didn’t need that much to lose weight. I think there’s a fair amount of bro-science in those calculators. Bro-science meaning…you see some guy at the gym who looks hard and you say “hey bro, how did you get your body to look like that?”

There’s a lot of merit in how bad sugar is and what it does to your body. Within the last 10 years, I’ve been as heavy as 220, changed up my diet and got as low as 166 (my high school weight). And changing my diet and reducing my sugar intake was a big reason why. It’s not the number on the scale I’m chasing, it’s how I feel mentally and improving my mood. There’s such a thing as a vegan “glow”…you can google it, I’m not making it up. I’ve seen it in person. For the record, I ate vegan cookie dough today and it was delicious. And it had sugar in it haha. A vegan diet doesn’t have to be debilitating.

Actually a hen drops an egg a day because it’s been bred to. Again, the purpose of this thread was not to debate the merits of going vegan, rather to hear from people who have gone vegan…the challenges they faced and the benefits they’ve seen. Feel free to create a separate topic if you wish to discuss that.

Well I’m not gonna go straight up Ghandhi haha. We all make choices about how we want to live and to achieve inner harmony. Personally, I’ve never felt good about not watering a plant enough or too much or giving it too much/little sunlight and killing it.

Honestly, I’m interested in my own health benefits more so than anything else. The fact that I’m not supporting an industry that clearly abuses livestock for the purpose of consumption is an added bonus. Ask yourself…have you ever seen a 300 lb vegan? Or a 300 lb person who’s 85 years old?

Totally agree. I already take multivitamins and fish oil for my own health reasons. So now it’s just a matter of switching to a vegan version of those.

Haha it’s okay. Ghost makes a really good vegan protein powder you can grab at gnc or wherever you want. Obviously that won’t be my only source of protein, but it helps if you’re into counting your macros. Thanks for the reply!! I do agree with you that making the switch today vs even 5 years ago is way easier. Back in 2017, I failed miserably…thinking I could just flip a light switch and “figure it out” haha. Restaurants will be challenging for sure…but I’m thinking about family and friends. Judgment by them. Let’s face it…when you decide to do something in our society that is against the norm, you get ridiculed. If it succeeds, you’re praised in the end…but the road there is not cupcakes and rainbows.

I’ve recently decided to adopt a vegan lifestyle…not only for the welfare of animals, but for my own health benefits as well as the environmental impacts. Has anyone out there converted? If so, what were the challenges you faced? Please do not comment if you’re here to campaign against this choice. I have no desire to debate you on this, nor am I here to preach to you how to live your life.

“I don't count the sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count. That's what makes you a champion." “Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." “Don't count the days. Make the days count." - Muhammad Ali

I’ll let Shaw speak for himself on that haha. And to your other point, I agree with you. Time to enjoy the Super Bowl.

I guess you didn’t read Shaw’s thread about meeting OJ at a hotel last year. Lost all respect for him after that.

LaFleur and Sirianni were not in the list I provided. Belichick is #3 in all-time wins and Reid is #5, and you’re focusing on winning percentages? And no, I didn’t have any apple stock in 1993. I was in middle school. I’m old enough to remember OJ the killer not the football player you couldn’t help but drool all over.

The original issue was Shaw doubting there are 5 coaches who have won as much as much as McDermott. All of the names in that list of active coaches have won the Super Bowl except one, which is better than McDermott and the reason we care about any of this. And the one coach who hasn’t, Kyle Shanahan, has also accomplished more than McDermott. And I’ll take him over McDermott any day.

Andy Reid Bill Belichick John Harbaugh Sean Payton Kyle Shanahan Pete Carroll Sean McVay Even Mike Tomlin could be on that list. He won a Super Bowl.

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Would you take a 4th round pick and we retain 5 mill of his guaranteed 11 mill salary? I’d take that deal all day. Gives us $6 million to address real issues with like resigning Tremaine Edmunds. Have you seen our cap? We’re $21 mill over with none of our current free agents signed. I know the cap will go up $10-15 mill at least…but we’re screwed boys https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

I live in OP. Woke up to a solid foot of snow in driveway. Took 2 passes w my snowblower. There’s no chance the snow inside the stadium will be shoveled out in time. Expect the Dolphins to be pelted with snowballs from drunken “bills mafia” members

They tried…but fortunately they failed

It’s embarrassing. Thank god I’m not a Raiders fan. I assume they cut Carr next year but good luck striking QB gold

Hell yeah Baker!! You might be looking at LA’s starting QB in 2023 if Stafford retires. Good for him for always believing in himself and never giving up. Kurt Warner-level stuff there. But holy hell Raiders D…how do you give up that stupid penalty after the sack and then play press-coverage at the end? Baker didn’t need to know the playbook…he just threw a go route and Jefferson came down w it

Jim had his moment and it was a great one, but it’s done. This sounds like an ex-gf you can’t get over. This coming from a guy who went to all 3 afc championship games in Buffalo

Tre has no guaranteed money on his contract after this year. No one is trading for someone that doesn’t want to play. If he doesn’t get it together soon, he’ll be cut

As a Bills fan, I really think Wilson needs another 2 maybe 3 years before you know he’s not the guy. Take 10 even…you really need to be sure your decision is the correct one haha

Honestly, would you rather have Tre or Poyer and Hyde? Bc the results tell me Poyer and Hyde are more valuable to our defense than Tre. And I think Tre is a great corner. But he’s not as valuable in this defense as they want you to believe…