Why I am a Vegan

[Diana]

I recently started exercising again so yea I do cardio, work out like a bodybuilder does plus i work a high intensity/paced job in a hospital where I have to lift patients, slide them from stretchers to tables, push stretchers, etc.

I read on that site that they recommend the same amount of protein as meat eating people so we are talking 1g of protein per lbs of body weight and that's the absolute minimum. I've normally eating 1.5 to 2g of protein per lbs
of body weight.

As for the beans, I soaked then over night but not until they sprouted. I hit a very rough patch financially years ago and I bought huge bags of rice and beans. The amount of bloating I had was excruciating.

It may not be something I could financially handle at this point but thanks for the suggestions

I have told this story a number of times here, but I will relate it again. In the mid 90's I became friends with an ex-WWF wrestler who was a huge body builder. He hadn't wrestled professionally for a time, but he was still bodybuilding. I went to the gym with him sometimes and when he squat-pressed some amazing amount of weight, the whole gym would get quiet. He had been a raw-food vegetarian for ten years at that point. I remember him consuming enormous amounts of raw vegetables, and he ate fruit and nuts. He would even sometimes chew up some uncooked dry rice. I say vegetarian because he wasn't strictly vegan, though he was health conscious and did not live off dairy products. He later went back to eating some cooked food but stayed vegetarian.

He wasn't the lean type either; he was bulky with big muscles. I think a lot depends on body type and how the body is articulated. 

Intentions matter: to look a certain way; optimize the body (like Bruce Lee did); optimize health; eat compassionately; or a combination of things and how they are prioritized. You can do anything you decide to do. For example, if certain things cost more buy less of others things. Also one can grow food, which is ideal.