A thought occurred to me while I was roasting vegetables in the oven: I should blog about the f45 vegan plan. I get these moments of inspiration every couple of months or so where I think it would be just a fantastic idea to get my obviously important thoughts out in the world, and then I remember that sometimes I read blogs and I’m like “wow, I don’t care about this at all” and the blog-desire hides away until another tedious moment in my life causes me to think too much.

If you’re unfamiliar, f45 is a cult, sorry, it’s a cult, yikes, it’s a functional fitness cultcenter that I have been using for almost a year now. The programming is awesome – every day something new, alternating days of cardio and weight-training, awesome and encouraging community, started in Australia, has a robotic man named Corey who demos the workouts on a screen to remind you what you do at each station and you stare at him for 45 minutes trying not to think about how much your body hurts anything except your form and your breath… and four times a year they, the fitness leaders, encourage you to do an 8-week challenge.

The challenge is a total body transformation (their words, though I lost 4% body fat in 4 weeks so yeah, maybe they’re right)- you eat right, you workout to sweat, you take a magnesium supplement (more on this later), you get sleep, you drink lots of water… you know, be healthy and intentional about it. And there’s different phases of the eating to like, try to make you forget about sugar or cravings, or make you lose water weight, or crank up that muscle building foods, I forget. I mean, I just follow the plan because it’s ya know, one less thing to think about in my day.

This year they have a vegan option, so I figured I would share my non-professional photos and opinions about it. The plan is for 1300 calories a day. Yeah no. A workout at f45 for me burns in the 550-650 range for cardio and 400-500 range for weight-lifting… so that’s a serious deficit. I’m not looking to lose weight anyway. I aim to net 1500 calories a day, so yeah, I supplement a snack or make a slightly larger portion of food. That’s not the point of this. Most vegans want to know: is it tasty? Is it pricey? Will my s.o./kids be like “wow, this is vegan it’s so good!” << hahaha made myself giggle with that one.

Ok so. Boring part out of the way. That was background. My title has nothing to do with this post but I’m not one to look in the past. I should have put this at the beginning (but see previous sentence): I am going to log some pictures and some thoughts about the f45 vegan meal plan to convince you to join the cult give vegan food a chance since it’s really just food and not scary at all. And it can be delicious. And it can be affordable. And honestly, f45 needs to update their photos because sometimes they’ll have mushrooms in a picture and I’m re-reading the ingredient list like 20 times and there are no mushrooms in the dish (false advertising, smh). I can help them out if they want to send me a camera and tell me what to do with the camera.