Hello and welcome to the inaugural episode of the No Meat Athlete

podcast. I am Matt Frazier and I'm here today with Ben Benulis.

Benulis, you may know Ben he blogs at vegan Jim Rat and he recently started working with me and Susan at No Meat Athlete.

And Ben's going to be heading up this podcast with me.

And you, if you've been reading No Meat Athlet, you probably know Ben because a couple weeks ago he posted a pretty popular post, the one about 30 bananas a day.

So Ben, how are things going and are you still doing this 30 bananas a day thing?

Doing well, I am doing 30 bananas a day, but with some other stuff included, so I'm about

90% on that diet.

But still doing stuff like rice and beans and cooked vegetables here and

there but pretty much doing it as the vast majority of my food but it's hard to give

up some of the tastier things out there.

Right, right, but still getting boxes and boxes of bananas at the grocery store, right?

About two a week, yeah.

Yeah, two boxes? Yeah. And is it that's a are you doing like the no oil thing with with no

no added oils at all I try to but I'll still have you know stir-fried vegetables with rice or something and there'll be oil there

So I try to avoid it but you know you can't do it 100% I mean you can but I'm opting not to I guess. No you can't really. So anyway, Ben, we were talking

about doing this podcast for a while or actually I've been thinking about it for a while and

Have been delaying it. Oh just because I didn't quite know how it would work. I didn't know how the content on No Mead athlete would would really translate into an audio format because a lot of it is kind of a how to you know diet advice fitness advice and I just didn't know how that would go but we were talking about it and I asked you and you had a really good, I thought, vision for how it goes. So why don't you tell everybody about what we're aiming for here?

So what we're really looking for is just periodic inspiration,

whether we do this podcast weekly, monthly, twice a month,

whatever, we just wanted to be a place for our readers and listeners that they can kind of stop by and get some

inspiration because you know a lot of the outside world you know vegans and vegetarians

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