Discover my journey shedding 100 pounds on a vegan and gluten-free diet. Check out my Day 2 update for tips and progress!
Discovering the Challenges and Triumphs of My Vegan, Gluten-Free Journey
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Transforming My Plate and My Life: Day 2 on the Journey to a Lighter, Healthier Me!
I know it’s a very high calorie but oo this is hitting the spot right now Morning YouTube It’s day two we’re going to weigh ourselves not sure that there’s really going to be much of a difference so we’re at 287.4 so technically we’re down a pound but okay we’re going to head to the gym.
Now and do leg day guys I will say I did buy this Mighty watermelon water it’s just watermelon juice and lemon juice and it’s got 626 milligram of electrolytes so that’s why I bought it to rehydrate Honestly though why does it have 170 calories watermelons are not that high.
In calories can someone explain that there’s clearly something else in here and lemon juice is not that high in calories I’m also going to have an Alani new I’m not a big fan of these because they do have suc in them but desperate times guys this is what we had and that’s what I’m going to have today it’s 10 calories sure beats the 170 calorie.
Watermelon juice but uh Cosmic Stardust is the flavor today all right so let’s get into this workout all right so we’re starting with the leg extension we’re going to work on legs and glutes today this is usually the one I like to start with or like a leg press or the Smith machine but I’m trying to take care of my back.
all right guys so we’re going to be doing leg press and traditionally you can start further back where your legs are at a 90° angle but because we’re trying to get the most bang for our buck and the most return on our glutes more so than our legs we’re going to have our feet.
Shoulder and hip width apart part we’re also going to drive deep down into the Press just like you would on a Smith machine or when you’re doing bats and you drop really far down uh into the squat so we’re going to actually come down a little bit okay it’s a little uncomfortable and it’s a little tight but it’s really going to work these.
Glutes so ready up without locking your legs they should not be straight slight Bend and then all the way down actually could probably go a little further down because you really want to feel this hole okay guys so we’re doing the seated leg.
Curl we already did quads and we did the leg press for the glutes so now we’re going to do hamstrings mine are very tight so this exercise is never really fun for me it should be something that you work on stretching out your hamstrings at home with a strap let’s get this.
All right so even though we just did hamstrings and I know this is going to hurt really bad we’re on the glute machine cuz remember we said we’re going to do legs and glutes so we’re going to do this machine it’s one leg at a time I don’t have the best form on each leg because I’m just not balanced and this is just something that comes with time.
And practicing so I can tell that one leg is stronger than the other so um it’ll be easier for me to kick back like this and extend my leg to feel the burn through my glutes right here and then come in again and then you kind of almost want to come to a stop but then push out again to extend the leg and in you don’t want to have the.
Weight slam like that you want want to try to keep the weight as close to touching as possible which should be bringing your leg almost all the way in and then out and then in and out so we’re going to do this few more times and then we’re going to switch legs your front leg for me I find it to be most comfortable when your front leg is kind.
Of the leg that’s not being extended is kind of up front in front of you now we’re going to switch legs this leg’s a little tighter so it’s a little harder for me with this weight so we’re on the calf extension some machines this platform actually bends as you do the calf extension but.
This one doesn’t so we’re going to have to just do our best so you’re going to stick your balls of your feet like the toes of your feet on the pad so the rest of your foot hangs down and you’re going to kind of just do this slight Bend and you’re just going to kind of.
Try to stretch out that calf muscles you’re going to see a lot of people doing it like this where they’re like up and down like this and that’s not correct so we’re trying to stretch the muscle and the calf so all right so we wanted to do another glute machine but this specific location.
Doesn’t have the one I was looking for and I didn’t want to leave the workout hanging so we’re going to do hinge pulls Marley I’m so sorry that I’m doing something that might hurt my back you’ll yell at about it on Wednesday all right so hopefully we are good to go I just have some 10 lb weights nothing too heavy and we’re just going.
To slowly Bend you should feel a slight Bend in your knees but your back should be straight actually feel it through my whole leg that’s how tight I am but slight pull but I also feel it in my glutes all right guys so we’re done leg day we’re going to finish up with some.
Cardio for about 15 minutes I’m on the bike again so we’re going to get going and I’ll see you in the next clip all right guys so I’m starving I had to run a few more errands I’m on my my way home I still haven’t eaten I’ve been trying to park far so I can get extra steps in when I walk into stores but went to Trader Joe’s um they had the Misfits and.
They had the vegan bear Bells I’ve been wanting to try bear Bells so bad and I keep finding them everywhere but they never had the vegan ones and I’m pretty sure a few years back someone fact checked me in the comments they had other vegan flavors I just went on their website they are having like a Labor Day Sale which is cool but they only have.
This one vegan FL flavor thankfully it’s made with hazelnuts and that’s a nut I can eat so I’ve been wanting to try these for a very long time plim there’s no added sugar they are very high in calorie though for this whole bar which is almost 2 oz it’s 220 calories but 15 G is uh protein there’s a lot of carbs.
In here it’s 10 G of fat which kind of seems high to and 27 G of carbs I guess cuz it’s nuts but yeah it’s a vegan protein powder that they pretty much to put into a bar I am super excited I’m going to try it right now and I’m starving this Misfits one they had two flavors here but I had to get the one that was gluten-free so this is the.
Chocolate caramel flavor I’m not going to try this as well guys I’m only going to eat one bar cuz I’m going to make a shake when we go home so excited let’s get into this bar here ooh it kind of looks like a like a candy bar so you can see like like.
Yeah all right o sorry I really do miss nougat I’m not going to lie milky ways and Snickers I think there’s nougat in Snickers right Snickers is the same thing as Milky Way except it has nuts right anyways I can’t remember don’t worry about my facts about snickers and milk way they’re not vegan so who cares.
All right so this is really good tastes just like nougat um chocolaty crunchy has no weird funny sugar taste like aftertaste I know it’s very high calorie but oo this is hitting the spot right now so I’m going to enjoy this bar it is delicious uh I would definitely buy.
These again damn I’m I’m always optimistic when I taste test things and then I try them and it’s like wow disappointing right but this lived up to expectations so please if you’re able to try out the vegan bear Bells really good all right guys I’m starving so I diced up some onions.
Garlic bell peppers and I sliced up in this beautiful avocado and over here we’re going to take these almond flour tortillas which I love DEA shredded cheese from tofu and abis chizo and we’re going to make a tofu scramble so first in goes the peppers garlic and onions we’re going to sauté those up in this Pan and the pan to your left is.
Where I made the tofu scramble I believe I just didn’t record it but you can see it there then I just basically put down the tortilla fill it with the scramble and fold them in half until they toast up I use a lot of nutritional yeast uh peppers and turmeric cuz they go well together so the turmeric can release in your body but that’s the final product.
Is the uh tofu scramble quesadillas with the two sauces on top the red and the green they’re so delicious really clean and then I put the avocado right on top so I can’t wait to dive into this so I’m back I didn’t forget about my 10,000 steps I’m at about 4100 it’s kind of where I started at yesterday uh so.
I’m probably just going to do the same Loop it’s about an hour roughly two and a half miles and I should be relatively close to the 10,000 steps so yeah I’ll uh see you when I get back I don’t if you can see it’s uh 4200 all right see you soon all right guys I’m back it was.
About uh a little under an hour almost 2 and 1/2 miles like I said uh we are at 95 00 steps so pretty confident we’ll hit the 10,000 like I said I don’t know if this is very accurate with the Apple watch cuz I feel like I talk with my hands and every time I move my watch the steps go up anyways sorry the running water is our pond here.
We have koi fish in our pond so all right I’m going to take you inside I’m going to go shower change and get some dinner going these are my steps we did 10,000 and yeah right guys the only other thing I wanted to mention was the fact that I’ve just been so tired today and.
Like when it came time to cook dinner I was exhausted I know a lot of people say like you should meal prep and I plan to get to all that but um besides drinking the shake I skipped dinner tonight and I probably shouldn’t have done that because one I’m not committing to my goals or committing to what I set for is to hold myself accountable but hey.
People make mistakes people need to learn I’m telling you guys cuz I’m trying to hold myself accountable uh that pretty much I did not hit my calories so my calories for today were less than the 1800 they were 1639 I know that’s not good um it’s not like I’m starving I’m just so exhausted that I don’t even care about eating.
Right now I’m going to get the Shake in like I said that includes the shake calories but for the day I mean you’ll see you saw the numbers on the screen like or you’re about to see the numbers on the screen uh my protein’s only 104 gram for the day and it’s supposed to be closer to like 150 175 maybe even 200 so.
Definitely fell short today um only buy like a couple hundred calories so it’s not too bad and obviously eating dinner probably would have put me over that but but I just yeah I just wanted to be honest I didn’t make dinner uh I could have easily filmed a video tomorrow making my dinner and pre sliding that.
And in post and sliding it into this video and saying that I ate dinner but I didn’t so um I just wanted to be real and true and honest like I guess there’s just going to be days where that just happens so uh I’m going to finish my shake get to bed try to get a good night’s rest and I’ll see you guys in the morning.
Um well I’m thinking about doing a day three video tomorrow’s my off day so we’ll see we’ll see stay tuned for another video I guess it’ll be my tomorrow morning but for you it might not be tomorrow morning if that makes any sense if you liked what you saw in the video today don’t forget to give it a.
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