Discover the latest on Vulnerable 2025: weight gain, gluten challenges, and transitioning away from veganism in this personal life update.
Navigating Life Changes: Embracing New Challenges and Dietary Shifts
After five years of following a vegan lifestyle, a wellness enthusiast made the significant decision to reintroduce meat into her diet. Alongside this change, she also adopted a gluten-free approach and experienced a break in her workout routine, which led to unwanted weight gain. In her journey, she candidly discusses the emotional and physical aspects of dealing with this transition, reflecting on her mindset shift and the complexities of her weight loss journey.
Despite her return to eating meat, she emphasizes that her love for vegan meals remains intact. Her story highlights the non-linear nature of health journeys, acknowledging that challenges and setbacks are a part of the process. She shares her focus on improving her skin health, particularly addressing issues like acne and hyperpigmentation, while promoting self-care and clean living in her daily life. This content serves as an honest exploration of the highs and lows of navigating wellness in a world filled with dietary trends and personal health challenges.
Navigating the Tides of Change: My Journey Beyond Veganism and Embracing New Challenges
2024 was a crazy year for every body been watching you from my I can remember you’re all a real man me never this is this is more than a crush I have a new camera this DJI pocket so I’m just testing it out to see.
If I like it if it’s something that I want to record with but yeah I really wanted to do this video from the treadmill um because I just wanted to be productive while filming and I feel like I’ve just been sedentary a lot the past couple months and I just need to be moving more and doing more for my body but yeah this is going to be like a.
Little tread talk the past couple months I have noticed some changes in my body as in I have gained some weight I’m not very fond of it I don’t like it but it happens like we’re human everything isn’t always going to be perfect in how you want it to be so it is what it is and I do want to make an effort to lose weight again because I just don’t like.
Being on the bigger side I didn’t like the way I particular Lally looked while I was my smallest I did love how I looked around 180 that was like my perfect sweet spot and I feel like if I can just tone from there like I will have my dream body I don’t like how I feel at the way I’m at now but it’s not necessarily about a number I feel like.
It’s about muscle and you know everything that contributes to that weight number so I don’t like I don’t want to be like oh I want to lose this I want to lose that and also I don’t want to put that pressure on myself like I really just want to like do my best every day I want to wake up and do my best to make healthy choices and to.
Exercise every day and I do think that is what it’s about I was a little bit down and hard on myself and I just like kept eating and eating and eating cuz I’m like damn like I gain weight like but now the longer that I’ve kind of like sat with it and thought about it I’m like girl don’t put no pressure on yourself you’re human everybody gains.
Weight people lose weight your body weight is going to fluctuate like your body weight can fluctuate for any reason but yeah I’m not being like super hard on myself I feel like that’s when even worse things can happen I’m really trying to focus on this concept that I just learned about you know being 1% better every day and I think that’s what.
It’s about instead of putting all these like crazy goals on yourself just focus on being 1% better and saying what can I do today that’ll get me one step closer to where I want to be I feel like it’s just it’s the end of the year the end of 2024 2024 was a crazy year for every body everybody that I know has had like a crazy year I feel.
Like so many lessons were learned and that’s the gift of life even when bad things happen or not necessarily bad but negative things happen you there’s still a lesson in there that you could learn but yeah in 2024 I started back eating meat um it’s been I want to say like 5 years since I ate meat and I’m back eating meat now I decided to start.
Eating meat again simply because I did the Elimination Diet and I realized that gluten was causing a lot of breakouts on my face y’all know that I struggle with acne so yeah it was very eye opening to realize that every time I have gluten my face gets so inflamed I get white heads I get really really big pimples on my face when I have gluten and trying to be.
Gluten free and vegan was just too much for me like I felt like I wasn’t satisfied after eating I was just still hungry and I just was always looking for more you know and it was very restrictive for me and I was having a hard time cooking finding ideas things to make like it just began to be too much for me so I made the decision to go.
Back to eating meat and also you know I was gaining weight as a person on a vegan diet and while gluten-free I feel like I was gaining weight because I wasn’t satisfied so I was like eating you know more rice than usual more beans more potatoes you know snacking constantly um cuz my meals just wasn’t satisfying me and you know it’s tires.
Being in the kitchen and having to make things from scratch all the time and I was coming to the realization that it’s not about you know necessarily being vegan it’s about being plant-based which is something that I remain to this day and when I say it’s not about that what I’m saying is it’s not about that for me and my values when it comes to health.
And wellness I’m still plant-based I still prioritize fruits vegetables or organic high quality foods I just eat meat now because I think what it’s about is eating more simplified eliminating processed foods and eating clean eating high quality whether you eat meat or not eat dairy or not try to choose the best options within those categories I’ve.
Been posting about it on Instagram if you don’t follow me over there make sure you go follow me um I post a lot on my stories it’s just easier to post over there than to post on YouTube consistently yeah I just wanted to update you guys on that decision because I probably won’t be doing what I eat in the days so often I want to be like less.
Food focused I feel like everybody has what works for them and I feel like what worked for me I do still have a lot of faith in my method of losing weight being vegan and plant-based and I do think that a lot of people like if you if you never tried it before I think you really should try it if you struggle with your weight and you’ve never.
Eliminated anything from your diet you really should try some meatless meals you really should try some dairyfree meals I still eat a lot of vegan stuff like there’s some things I’ll never do away with and there are some vegan meals that I prefer like vegan mac and cheese I just made some baked vegan mac and cheese for Thanksgiving um with some.
Vegan barbecue meat balls like it’s things that I’m not like some meat head where I got to have meat with everything now no that’s not the case I’m saying is is when I feel like it I’m going to have meat now I’m going to have fish a little grass-fed steak I’m going to have those things because I personally I can’t sustain being vegan and gluten-free like.
It’s just not going to work for me and if I feel like for a particular meal I want to have some meat with it so that I can feel satisfied then I’m going to do that but overall I just wanted to say that no journey is completely linear where you’re going to always be in One Direction sometimes you going to be you.
Know on a uphill and then sometimes you going to be going downhill so it’s one of those things where you can’t expect every day to look the same every month to look the same you’re going to run into issues in your personal life you can’t just think that oh you know I did it and I’m good and once and for all I ain’t got to worry about it no more um.
No every day you’re going to have to constantly fight it’s not about if you’re going to get off track it’s about when you’re going to get off track everybody gets off track but when you get off track make sure you get back on track that’s that’s the important part but yeah I just wanted to come on here and have this little moment.
Of transparency with y’all cuz I think that all you guys deserve an update and I can’t see myself quitting YouTube I Love YouTube YouTube has opened up so many doors for me and it has really given me a lot of opportunity so I really appreciate this platform and all of you guys who click on my videos watch my videos but yeah I’m just about to.
Turn up this treadmill cuz I really want to see some sweat when I take off this waist trainer so yeah I’m about to get a little quick jog in take a little drink of water and we’ll check in soon the.
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