Managing IBD with a Plant-based Diet

I was just reading one of my earlier posts and I noticed that I had set a goal to be at 170 pounds for the summer. Well, without any restrictions whatsoever, I have already achieved this goal. (The last few days I weighted myself were around 169-172, mostly 170). I am very happy with these results, but I have decided that I wanted to lose another 8 to 10 pounds. I'm not setting any timeframe for it, I will let it happen naturally. My plan is to keep biking at least 3 days a week, and take a couple walks as well. My bike rides are moderate to high intensity 1 hour or so workouts, and so I feel like I get a very good workout for both fat loss and anaerobic training. Lastly, a new goal I just thought about is to reduce my grocery shopping expenses. In the last 4 months, I have paid literally no attention to the money I was spending. I was assuming that it was a little bit higher than before, due to the fact that I actually eat whole foods now, instead of processed garbage on sale...

A while ago, I read Diana S Fleischman's blog entry about the ethical case for eating oysters (found here: https://sentientist.org/2013/05/20/the-ethical-case-for-eating-oysters-and-mussels/) It makes a very strong case in the favor of including some oysters in a vegan diet (which Denise Minger also argues on her blog but from a nutritional perspective only). Diana takes a more global approach to the subject. Diana coins two terms to describe herself, 'ostrovegan' and 'bivalvegan'. I chose to discard the term bivalvegan, since I am not interested in eating mobile mollusks, and the word doesn't specify which bivalves are eaten. In my view, if it moves of its own, then it is more distant from the plant kingdom than close to it, unlike sessile mollusks. So, I chose the word 'ostreovegan'. Ostreo for Ostreidae - or the family of edible Oysters. (Superfamily: Ostreoidea & Order: Ostreoida). This word also makes it easy for me to use the same word b...