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Hi Trina. Welcome to Vegan Squad Community. I’m new to the scoop also. I’ve been a Vegan since the early 2000s, I’ve studied for the NASM personal training certification, but I flunk the test by two questions. Back in the early 2010. I’m recently considering possibly taking the course again. I have your Instagram handle so I’ll connect with you over there. I think mine is @Barnaby.Lisa. I’m really new to all these apps and platforms and technology. It’s all very overwhelming for me! Where are you from? I’m from Chicago Illinois. I’d love to get to know you. Hope to hear back from you.

Trina I just followed you on Instagram!

@Sam Gullo well that’s great! Can you connect with me on whats App? My cell is (708) 288-7940. I would need your cell so I can add you into my contacts

@Vicky Nelson thanks! You’re welcome I hope my papers will bring some inspiration

Thanks John! Everything you have stated in this post is TRUE about me. I’ve told you my main goal is to improve my nutrition/muscle building so I will be discussing all these points with Courtney and this is what we’re going to focus on improving. I need to have daily meals planned and make sure I’m eating every single thing that I need to eat, and working out until failure, definitely I have not been doing that! I have done much better at consistency, meaning that I pretty much work out every day, doing cardio and strength training, but working till failure on either of those modalities nope I have failed to do those things! This is about to CHANGE!!! Lastly, I need to learn to track my macros and I don’t even know what that means!!!! So that’s why I joined Vegan squad. I need to be taught what to do and then DO IT every single day ! Those are my goals this is my MISSION STATEMENT. I hope to see radical changes in myself over the next two months from working with Courtney! If she teaches me what to do, I’ll do it and hopefully I’ll get the results that I’ve desperately desire!! Thank you, John! This was a great post.

John everything that you said in your post, I wholeheartedly relate to it. In our recent telephone conversation, I definitely cried because of the pain and suffering in this world, towards the animals, and sometimes the share temptation and difficulty it is to stick to our convictions, not to consume animal products and not to contribute to the pain and suffering. And looking around at the people in our lives and the cognitive dissonance that exists in people. Having learned the horrors of factory farming well over 20 years years ago ago, it’s not surprising how brainwashed people are, and how important our calling is to try to transform peoples thinking and lead people by example and by educating them that eating plant-based is also the most compassionate (and healthiest in my humble opinion) way that we can and SHOULD live our lives. you know that I just committed to join Vegan squad since we spoke yesterday, and like what you stated, I’ve been looking for a community that would give me a reason to want to continue in this journey, which like you said can be so lonely can be so heavy, the pain and the sadness can become so overwhelming to make us want to just quit. But for myself, and I’m sure as for you too. Every day, the good Lord wakes us up and let us know that we still have breath to breathe and a purpose to do what our convictions are telling us to do. Anybody who’s reading this, if you resonate with this, it’s good to know that we’re not walking alone in our struggles. Thanks for your post and sharing your heart, John!