well my one achillies heel is my love of Yuengling black and tan beer. Id probably be goal weight right now if it wasnt for that deep black colored goodness in my tankard.

Even with your love of yummy beer you're still doing good.
keep it up - the good work and a drink now and then!

Everything in moderation.

......that includes working out in my case

I went back to my straightedge vegan lifestyle, day three as i type this so im done with beer and im looking forward to getting my health back to where it was when i was a vegan for two years. I was very healthy and didnt have all of this excess weight. The straightedge vegan lifestyle will take the weight off of you . Drastic, Yes, but my health is failing me fast.

I'm beginning to experience some of the negative side effects of living two lifestyles at once.

I'm a night owl. I love to stay up late. But! I'm highly motivated to improve my physique, so I still wake up at 0630 every single morning.

It leaves my body drained, my mind is willing, I feel no exhaustion, but my bones, my joints, they're all in pain. I'll have to get straightened up with a bedtime i guess...

Thumbs up to Jim for going hardcore healthy - straightedge vegan - wow. You are freaking hardcore! I would love to a nice meat and dairy detox for a month or two. I keep hearing how all the hormones and whatnot are really screwing people up. But I can barely eat healthy on the road, let alone vegan. When you can't get to a grocery store on a regular basis it sucks. I ate Mc Donalds twice in the last week and I feel sooo sick. I can only handle that crap so called meat once in awhile. But two other days all I ate was soup and salad.

but thumbs down to Mr Victor. Dude, you are way too young to be wrecking your body like that. It's great that you're so into working out and that's great but yea you are gonna have to give up your late nights.
Not only will that make you sore and cranky and mentally overtired, being even a little bit exhausted everyday makes your body more susceptible to getting sick. The flu, colds, etc. Sleep is sooooo important. If you deprive yourself of an hour of needed sleep a night after a week it has the same effect on your body as if you skipped sleeping a night. So turn off the computer, games and phone and sleep at night Mister!

ok there's my mommy speech for the day.

Well with going straightedge vegan again I KNOW some of the beer weight will come off, and my food intake will be healthier so I believe I have this all figgered out in my head. Its gotta work this time, im dying the way i am.

Your pic you have up from your other birthday with the vegan straightedge shirt on, you look very healthy.
The beer weight will come off quick and then the added weight loss from not putting all the extra hormone injected meat products into your body.
I am so proud of you for going all out like this. I know you are gonna do great and feel so much better.
Plus its even easier now than it was a few years ago even to be totally vegan.
Just remember though if you do backslide a pinch, get right back up and back into it.
I may not be good at following through with things but I am a great cheerleader for others!

Ive had no cravings for beer yet but i did have a craving for a boiled hot dog , so instead i had a boca tofu burger lol. it hit the spot.

I never had a tofu burger but I did have a veggie burger - that was sooooo yummy!
Are those boca burgers almost meat taseting enough that someone could be fooled?? I usually only make turkey burgers but I'd love to slip in a non-meat burger, just to be sneaky.
Like pouring some decaf coffee in someone's cup after they said there's no way they'd drink decaf.