by Dani Taylor So, you’ve decided to make your health a priority. You’ve gotten into a fitness groove where you are working out hard and consistently. You’re finding yourself not really going out on the weekends and instead you’re making sure you get a good night sleep. Maybe you’ve even started packing your own meals…

We just returned from our PlantBuilt excursion in Austin Texas.  It was an awesome week and we took home many trophies, DEFINITELY making a strong statement for veganism. We have invited Sara Russert, donut queen turned champion vegan bodybuilder, to write a blog about her experience! I am still gathering my thoughts and trying to…

Most people have the general premise down.  If you want to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you eat.  Calories in vs. calories out.  While I certainly don’t base my meal plans on this idea alone, this statement holds true.  So, a person looking to lose weight, often in an attempt to…

As many people know, I had a goal set to run a thousand miles this year.  As a kid, I was fat.  And slow. No, really slow.  And when I had to run the (extremely embarrassing) presidential mile in eighth grade, it took me about 14 minutes, and I was one of the last kids…

Sorry for the bloggy silence this week.  We’re just getting ideas about how to make regular updates happen while we are on the road this summer.  This past weekend we flew from Massachusetts to Seattle for the Seattle Veg Fest, which was the first show that we ever did!  This was our fifth year there…

As vegans, we catch a lot of flack for various aspects of our diet, often from people with very little understanding of nutrition themselves.  In many ways, I think vegans, in general, are very good at explaining the whys and hows of veganism. One particular quip that I hear frequently though is “If being vegan…