Hello community. This is my first **Plant Power (Vegan) ** post and I want to be fully transparent before I continue this post. I am not an official vegan, but I have been on a health and fitness journey for about ten years now and every year I have experimented more and more with plant based options.
I have my wife to thank for that, because although we were on separate weight loss journeys when we met, it became a unison towards a healthy lifestyle together.
Tiffany, early on in our relationship introduced me to Meatless Mondays and I grew up in the ghettos of Brooklyn, New York to a Puerto Rican mother and let me tell you the thought of no meat for a whole day was unfathomable.
As we get older that burger doesn't sit in your stomach like it used to.
So as I start becoming more conscious of not only my body, fitness and health overall there is a clearer sense of cruelty that comes into play with what we put in our bodies especially the cost of hurting living creatures.
I am not a pet person, but I do have a heart and when I got together with Tiffany it was an instant family as she has kids and there was a dog as well. All the things I had to get accustomed to and when GiGi passed away it was a tough loss that I never thought I would experience.
When it's all said and done, I workout 5 to 6 days a week and not only do Tiffa and I workout we do high intensity interval training sessions and we've been doing it for years.
Once you put your body through that, you want to respect it even more by feeding it good food and not junk. I post a lot about those workouts in the ACTIFIT community.
Anyway, just wanted to lay the groundwork of who I am when it comes to my approach towards growth based on my health and fitness journey and why although I'm not a full-fledge vegan, I am experimenting and learning more about it and am excited to continue doing so.
Tiffany and I are planners. We love to plan ahead and we are set in our ways when it comes to what we are looking for when we go on our road trips and travels.
This past weekend we drove out to West Palm Beach, which is two hours plus from where we are at in Kissimmee, Florida.
So our plans always have to include an OTF workout as they have fitness studios worldwide, what are the spots to get in a good walking activity and where are the healthiest places to eat at. We make it an adventure.
The reason we went to WPB was to attend a baseball spring training game, which we try to do once a year as I'm a Mets fan, so we make the effort yearly.
Now, back in the day, when I went to a live sporting event hot dogs was a must. As the years go by, we eat prior to the events and skip the junk during the games as they are not bad for you, the prices are enough to kill you lol.
So, the mission for us was to find a place to eat before the game and we did an extensive search to find a place that blew our minds. Talk about a niche while providing plant based options.
The place is called PLANT BASED MAFIA whose tagline is "We Don't Whack Animals, We Whack Plants" That sold me. I read it off to Tiffa as she was driving and said let's go there now!!
We have had plant based breakfast, lunches, snacks, desserts, but I can't say we ever had what was equal to an Italian Restaurant Dinner from the appetizers to the entrée to the dessert was spectacular and the customer service was impeccable. They made you feel like "part of the family" in my DeNiro voice.
We had the Ginzo Style Tots and Wedges as appetizers, I had Uncle Robert's Famous Cast Iron Skillet Lasagna and Tiffa had the Gnocci and for dessert, I had the Carrot Cake and Tiffa had the Tiramisu.
OMG, delicious and what I have found in my evolving experience eating plant based options to what I am accustomed in my life that I feel absolutely great afterwards. I don't feel icky, sluggish, etc.
Here are some photos:
This was an amazing experience and one that I wanted to post about, but I wanted it to be somewhere it can be fully appreciated and I hope that it does here.
As I continue to respect my body and become more educated about the horrors done to other living beings and put a higher respect to theirs, it's truly wonderful to experience the other side of option that are truly healthier and empathetic sustenance.
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