Vegetarian Star

At the young age of 40, Lance Armstrong has so many accomplishments to his name.

Multiple Tour de France winner. Testicular cancer survivor with a foundation (Lance Armstrong Foundation @ Livestrong.org) that empowers others living and beating the same disease (80 million people with those yellow bracelets couldn’t be more fashionable). Ironman competitor. A new line of fitness equipment. And now. Perhaps his greatest achievement ever…a vegan until six and Engine 2 Diet athlete.

Armstrong swims with former triathlete, firefighter who turned his station vegan and author of The Engine 2 Diet, Rip Esselstyn. Armstrong was impressed with the film Forks over Knives. The fact that former president Bill Clinton went vegan to erase his heart disease symptoms also adds to the convincing evidence.

Armstrong spoke with the Huffington Post about his latest adventure in the kitchen.

“Even when you’re training really hard, it’s normal that you would have certain things for lunch or certain things for breakfast, and then have this dip, or almost like a food coma … I don’t experience that anymore. My energy level has never been this consistent, and not just consistent, but high. I’m a big napper — I couldn’t even take a nap these days if I wanted to.”

“The other thing — I expected to get rid of that dip, but I didn’t expect the mental side of it, and the sharpness and the focus that I’ve noticed. And I was the biggest non-believer, I was like ‘whatever man’, and I’m in.”

Armstrong is currently combining Rip’s plan with a “vegan until six” plan food writer Mark Bittman advocates, meaning dinners could be non-vegan if he chooses.

Photo: de:Benutzer:Hase/Creative Commons

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