My name is Tracy. I love people. I love being helpful. I love fast cars. I paint art. I am a paralegal. I have vacationed at Niagara Falls. I painted there. I love traveling. I am not a vegan. My best friend is a vegetarian trying to be a vegan. I make veggie dishes for my friend's house parties. The smokey mountains are one of my favorite places and I hope to travel there soon. I visited the smokey mountains before. I don't think I have the stamina to go hiking. I recently decided to go vegan. I am currently feeling overwhelmed by having a plant based diet. I enjoy beef and broccoli. I do not like the texture of rubbery foods. I shop at Trader Joe's. I love eating veggies. I enjoy vegan food. It makes my stomach time to adjust to eating lots of vegetables. I have never made a spicy meal with tofu. I have never done a zumba class. Eating veggies makes me pass gas a lot.
My name is Amanda. I am a vegan. I enjoy going to the gym. I am not a singer. I love art. I have a husband who is a lawyer and also loves art. I am a baker. I do zumba. I have a Jeep. I love traveling in the mountains for the exercise. I love vehicles that handle rough terrain.  My favorite food is pizza. I went to the smokey mountains when I was young. I like to take day trips hiking that last 8 hours. I have a very small individual tent for camping. I own a vegan cookbook. I am looking forward to a new vegan cheese shop that I live by. I was a vegetarian before I became a vegan. I slowly stopped eating meat. I make a lot of different recipes with tofu. I own an oven. I enjoy eating tofu. I love vegetables, so converting to a vegan diet was easy for me. I am curious what non-vegans think about vegan recipes.  I would like to have a weekly get together to try new vegan recipes. I recently really enjoyed a Korean tofu recipe. I love spicy food. I have more energy since I became vegan. I go on eight hour hikes. I enjoy zumba classes.
What made you first decided to go vegan? I've always loved the outdoors, like hiking and camping, and I guess i just realized that animals are part of what make the outdoors so spectacular. I went vegetarian first and eventually went full vegan. I have some great recipes if you are interested. Since my best friend is a vegetarian I would like to try and be more like that. I would love to try your recipes, but I'm probably not ready to be fully vegan. I'll try the route you went first, vegetarian to vegan. Maybe changing my diet will inspire me to go to a zumba class too! I feel like I have more energy now that I'm vegan, so maybe you will too! Maybe you, your friend, and I can get together every week and share recipes, that way you can ease yourself into being vegan and find meal you enjoy That would be really helpful! And I know my friend is interested in exploring being vegan as well. Maybe in addition to sharing recipes we could try out a zumba class with you sometime? Yes of course! Zumba is great. And I know you mentioned you don't think you have the stamina for hiking, but we could try that too if you're interested. We don't have to start with anything too intense, maybe just some short trails and work our way up I think I could give hiking a try if we start out easy. And like you said, I'm hoping to have more energy when I start changing my diet. I'm feeling very motivated to change my lifestyle to be healthier. I'm hoping I can stay motivated, haha! That's what I'm for, to keep you motivated! It's always better to have an exercise partner so wee can feed off each other's energy! You're totally right! Trying to be healthy is really hard to do on your own. But I think this sounds like a good plan. The three of us can share recipes and help motivate each other with the exercise! We'll all be doing 8-hour hikes in no time! I'm feeling extra motivated just thinking about it! How about we shoot for this weekend? I can find a beginner Zumba class so you can get a feel for it. Great idea! You should invite some of your friends too. We could get a good group together. I'm feeling far less overwhelmed by this idea now that I'm thinking about everyone who will be helping me out! Yes I definitely will, the more the merrier! I'm so glad to hear that, it's not always easy trying new things but I'm glad you feel comfortable with it