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I want to share one of the biggest moments of my life with you.

I spoke about Vegan Fitness at Vegfest London 2016: How to craft your dream body and achieve optimum health on a vegan diet something I am an expert in.

This happened eight months ago but this is the first time Im writing about it.

It was an honour.

People were spilling out of the room to hear what I had to say. It meant so much.

It means more to me than most things in this life to promote vegan health and fitness.

It is because people seem to think we need to torture and kill animals for our brains, muscles, and other parts of our physiology to work their best.

We seem to think were supposed to mess around with other creatures, use and abuse them, ignore their free will and inflict untold pain and suffering upon them because we may benefit from ingesting parts of their bodies or excretions.

Of course, no-one is going to stand up and admit they believe in animal abuse.

People work hard, mentally, to create emotional dissonance around this. It is unthinkable.

And so we distance ourselves from the pure and blatant facts.

Drink milk? You contribute to child murder, the breaking of a new mothers heart and abuse of the miracle of bearing children. Rearing cattle for dairy is the most un-feminist practice I can imagine.

There are simply no two ways about it.

And that was me less than two years ago. I was that person the same as the 90%+ of the worlds population that consumes dairy.

It is simply a case of allowing ourselves to accept the world as it is presented to us by society and our families who, by the way, were exposed to the same stuff we are now.

So how do they know better than us? Why should we learn how things are and should be through them?

We allow ourselves to question so many things once we become teens, but due to heavy, heavy advertisingcampaigns around animal agriculture industries, we never question this practice.

Then I saw the light.

My newly-vegan pal Chris Hines told me the truth about how you get dairy.

I just want to apologise in advance to sensitive people who read the stuff on that link. Its all true but really horrible, so, Im sorry.

I spent a fortnight crying on the tube and googling stuff, then I went fully vegan.

Rare steak was my favourite food before, and now I eat tofu, seitan and pulses for protein. You can do it too.

I since dropped 10% body fat, 10 kilos and won 1st place Beach Body at the Miss Galaxy Universe European Championships 2016.

Heres the way I see my form of activism: I am an example of what a vegan looks like, how healthy a vegan can be and how healthy veganism can make you, and how normal you can remain.

Plus of course, how easy and pleasant it is to be vegan.

Justlook at me up there, with the abs, with the brain with the functioning physiology.Vegan two years.Not dead, and actually much fitter.

So, ingesting bits of animal: Inessential for good health.

So, now we have to think about what were doing in the context of preference rather than need.

And so the onion begins to peel.

Peel it further, take off your blinders, please. Be free of this cognitive conditioning around animal agriculture, a billion-dollar industry tightly involved with government.

On the mentality side of things, if there is ONE THING I can recommend its please, please:

Read: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs And Wear Cows by Dr Melanie Joy.

Its brutally truthful, educational and impenetrably informed. It will make you cry.

Also: Watch the following speeches, factual documentaries and educational movies.

They should answer every question and doubt you may have.

I havent mentioned it in this particular blog, but Ive been on prep (a diet and exercise plan) for the past ten weeks.

This is because Im competing in the UK Ultimate Physiques fitness show taking place at BodyPower on May 12th.

Find out how Ive been getting on in my previous and future blogs.

Week 10 progress: Down to 57.7kg .3kg down.

Total progress so far: Down to 57.7kg from 61kg and body fat is now down to 18% from 23%.

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