Hello Steemit! I'm Samantha, 17 years old & hockey player from South Africa
Hey Steemit! I’m 17 years old, from South Africa! I've lived here my whole life. I decided to transition over to a fully plant based vegan diet in October of 2015 and haven’t looked back since. I feel happier and healthier as an active vegan. I enjoy cooking and baking as I am always discovery new vegan foods to try. Veganism is not very common in my part of the world but since I made the change, 3 of my close friend have also become vegans.
I follow a high carb, low fat vegan diet. I promote clean eating and cook entirely without oil. I find that this high carb diet has really aided in my athletic performance. Too many girls my age are restricting calories and cutting carbs - I hope to show them that a healthy diet is one where you can eat as much as you like if the food you put in is not damaging to your body. These restriction diets destroy your metabolism and although you lose weight short term, they are not sustainable and will result in you gaining all that weight that was lost and more.
I attend Rhenish Girls High School in Stellenbosch. It is a beautiful school, always flooded with student and tourists. Around the corner from Rhenish is the University of Stellenbosch, commonly known as Maties, where I often attend various hockey clinics.
I’ve been taking part in numerous sports since the age of 6, but hockey is by far where my passion lies. Last year I was chosen for the junior national training team after our u/18 IPT tournament in Potchefstroom. Besides for hockey I also enjoy swimming, which I use to do competitively. Now I swim every now and then as I believe that it helps as cross training to reduce my chance of picking up an injuring. I am also part of my schools athletics team.
As you can tell, I love sport. Sport and food are where my interest seem to lie at this stage in my life. I hope to share that with you here on Steemit and am super excited to be part of this community.
Welcome Samantha.
Hey Samantha and welcome to Steemit! I'm not vegan myself but I do have a friend who is. I'm probably never going to be vegan but that doesn't stop me from trying different vegan recipes, I especially love vegan icecream (yum) hope you're having a great steemit experience so far!
Love it girl!! High carb, low fat, no oil for the win :) So awesome finding so many vegans on this platform!
Welcome to Steemit, Samantha. It's awesome how many vegans you meet on this platform! So I figure you transitioned to veganism when you were 14? This is quite impressive, what was your trigger? And you even helped three friends of yours to this path, which is so great :)
I am eating high carb plant-based for 4 years now and also profited a lot from this kind of diet, especially regarding my wellbeing in general and my performance in sports!
I am super excited about your future posts and hope you find useful inspiration for yourself on Steemit ;)
Thank you so much. Yes, I was 14 when I went vegan. The first step for me was watching a video called 'meet your meat'. After that I did research on the health and environmental benefits and it was obvious to me that this was the most sustainable way to go.
It is great to hear that you are liking a high carb diet. Cheers, Samantha
There are so many great videos out there, waiting to be seen by the mainstream! I love the fact that Netflix incorporated so many eye-opening documentaries of that kind into their program - in my experience, a commitment to a cruelty free diet can change your life in an instance :)
Hay Sam, see your finally able to join the Steemit community !!! nice post keep it up !!!
Hello Samantha..!!
Wellcome to Comunity..
Hello girl, your post I liked a lot, I'm following you and I want to see your next post with the recipes you know. I give you my upvote
Welcome to steamit!
You'll find a few of us herbivores around here.
I've been on the plant train since 2015 as well and I love how it makes me feel on my bike.
Have you ever listened to 'The Rich Roll podcast'?
Thats great!
No, I havent. What is it about?
Rich Roll is a plant based ultra endurance athlete who interviews some great guests. From athletes, doctors, CEOs, with his main goal being to help unleash your best self.
It's my number 1 podcast recommendation to anyone!
Hey samsmuts welcome to steemit dear just upvoted you and following you
welcome to steemit