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Welcome to My Vegan Weight Loss Journey!

Welcome to my new blog, Vegan Miracles: Weight Loss & Super Powers!  I am Heather Carr and I've been overweight my whole life, except for a very unhealthy period of my teens, when I was the skinniest I've ever been at 130-135 lbs when I was 17-18. After that unhealthy period of over-exercising, starvation and drugs, I wanted to be healthy and clean, so I quit cold-turkey on my own and started to eat what I though was normal and healthy-the Standard American Diet (SAD). Within 3 years I had obtained my highest weight ever of 225 lbs when I was approximately 21 years old.  I have no pictures of me at my highest weight, because I felt horrible about myself.  My high school graduation at the age of 19 is the closest I have, and I'm not even sure how much I weighed here, but it wasn't the highest!   This was another one of my breaking points, and I committed again to exercising, and tried many different diet plans, including Atkins, Slim Fast, Weight Watchers,