Rockie, in the event you are late to the story, is the infant squirrel we found crawling around helplessly on the forest floor right outside our front door last summer, It was perfect timing, because with a little love, a lot of formula, and important shelter, she grew and thrived into adolescence.
Then, just as she was getting her forest legs, we had to leave for 2 weeks, not knowing how Rockie would fare in our absence.
And here’s the update! Rockie has thrived another 3 months and is now a wild, rehabbed squirrel who drops by for sunflower seeds and peanuts every few days. But the transition was not without its perils! Find out about Rockie’s tangle with ‘Gnarly’, the biggest baddest squirrel in the hood (her right ear has never been the same, but Rockie prevailed!), her favorite games of hide-and-seek, and more. I know you’re going to love Greg’s amazing movie update.
Rockie’s spirit of adventure and joy of life and the wild make her the perfect plant-based fitness blog mascot. Share this video with your friends, family, on facebook, pinterest, wherever a story of heart-warming courage and some great laughter and a few tears can just perhaps make someone’ s day.
It can be disheartening. You embrace a plant-based diet with the hopes of not only getting healthier, but shedding a few pounds and you are looking forward to slipping into your jeans a little more easily.
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Yet for some inexplicable reason, a few days in you step on the scale and the numbers are up. What’s with that? Here’s how ‘Jo’ put it in a recent posting:
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I began the 21-Day Kickstart and have been following it pretty closely. I’ve been a vegetarian for almost a year now and decided I would try to move closer to vegan. I was hoping it would help me lose some weight. I’ve been exercising pretty regularly but haven’t seen any change on the scale. I don’t eat out much at all. Make all my own food. I eat whole grain breads and pasta. Lots of fresh veggies and fruit.Am I missing something? gourmetJo
Here are 5 reasons you might have gained weight on a plant-based diet when your goal is to lose weight
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Not to worry Jo, it is usually enot too hard to find the root of the problem. And it may just be a matter adjustment time.
Here is my expanded response to Jo.
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Hi gourmetJo,
This happened to me as well when I switched to a low fat vegan diet. Actually, I gained 2 lbs in the first month. And this was after decades of a vegetarian diet! So the changes for me were eliminating dairy, free fats (expelled oils), and minimizing higher fat foods vegetable foods such as avocados, nuts, and olives.
The 2 lbs came on pretty quick, stuck around for a month, and then in the month directly, after I dropped them. Then the next month I dropped 2 more lbs which became a 4 lb. weight loss, a net loss of 2 lbs during that time. Keep in mind I was not overweight since losing 50 lbs several years ago and my weight stays within a 3 – 4 lb range.
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Rockie, in the event you are late to the story, is the infant squirrel we found crawling around helplessly on the forest floor right outside our front door last summer, It was perfect timing, because with a little love, a lot of formula, and important shelter, she grew and thrived into adolescence.
more. I know you’re going to love Greg’s amazing movie update.
