i was always homeschooled until i got to
high school so i didn't have any friends
people were making fun of me so i
started lifting and just to get a little
bit of confidence
i used to drink a gallon of milk every
single day
along with the mass gainers and proteins
the more calories i ate from dairy
the more my acne got worse my acne in
the beginning it was just like a lot of
redness
over time i was getting you know a
couple pimples and then it turned into a
couple
cystic foils on my face i would never
have less than three or four assists on
my face
at any time so then i thought about it
and i was like so maybe dairy is the
cause of my acne
i was always the skinny kid i was always
kind of like the nerdy kid
i was always homeschooled until i got to
high school i didn't have any friends
people were making fun of me so i
started lifting
and just to get a little bit of
confidence i really found out like
fitness is my passion it's something
that like makes me happy without anybody
else needing to approve of it
i needed to eat a lot of calories and
the easiest way to gain
weight at that time was just getting
mass gainers and milk there was
something called the gallon of milk a
day
diet you would drink a gallon of milk
throughout the day along with the
regular foods you were having along with
the
mass gainers and proteins and stuff that
you were eating that was just like an
extra 1500 calories
the more i like gained weight the more
calories i had to eat the more calories
i ate from dairy
the more my acne got worse
i first started struggling with acne
when i was probably about
16 a couple whiteheads here and there
when i was struggling with my acne a
girl at school came up to me and said i
would never date you
because you're ugly as soon as i got to
school the people immediately pointed
out my acne
said like look at that big one on your
nose rudolph i remember i just got
through that day and i just was like man
i can't wait to get home and as soon as
i got back into my car at the end of the
day i just like broke down in tears like
it's just
like it's just overwhelming and over
time i was getting you know a couple of
pimples and then turned into a couple
cystic
you know boils on my face i would never
have less than three or four or five
cysts on my face
at any time i went to a dermatologist
they started me on accutane
and it didn't do anything for like the
first it was like five or six months
he said a lot of the people who are
doing accutane
have taken whey protein powders and like
sports supplements out and they've seen
improvements
then i thought about and i was like well
whey protein powder is literally derived
from dairy
so maybe dairy is the cause of my acne
so i went vegan and i did see some
improvements i took the dairy pot and
that helped my acne but i then decided
like okay maybe i'm going to actually
seriously approach
you know veganism for a longer term diet
a vegan diet has changed my life because
i've been lifting for 11 years now
almost 12 years and i've been vegan for
five years of that so i've been able to
see the difference in like my
performance
from before veganism and after
i left monday through saturday so six
days a week
and i usually lift for about an hour and
a half to two hours a day
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that was hard so this is the smoothie i
do every single day after my workout
i do two frozen bananas that are like
chopped up and then
i do a cup of like any assorted fruit so
like right now i'm gonna do
a cup of mangoes and i do about three
cups of
ripple which is a plant-based it's pea
protein uh milk
i do a scoop of vegan protein and then
just to get some extra greens i put
however much kale or spinach in there so
just like a big handful of kale
i remember i would have at least four
chicken thighs a day i would have
a steak every single day as well
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i actually had cystic acne as well as
brian and he
actually inspired me to go vegan as well
after going vegan i literally like i
don't remember the last time i've gotten
assists like in years
and before all this i was getting three
or four like
every single week it feels like
completely clear compared to where i was
before this
acne is a really important you know part
of my life
it's also really important for me to
just make people not feel like they're
less than anyone else because they have
their acne
so about a year and a half ago i started
my youtube channel called team acne
i basically just talked through my
journey now my side effects have stayed
just about the same as always
i give like little stories about what
i've been through aspects of my own acne
journey and
try to encourage people through that
when i started
having acne there was literally at the
time there was nobody especially there
was no like males talking about it
sometimes i'll shoot like food videos
sometimes i'll film like reaction videos
today
and i just want to record a little bit
of like some positive vibes
some like encouraging uh words about a
year ago i started working on
this thing called the acne program and
it's just basically like
i took everything you could possibly
need to learn about acne from like
what you can do naturally to hear it
from like what you're gonna experience
when you go to a dermatologist to put it
into
a course that people will be able to get
a vegan diet
isn't necessarily a cure-all for
everybody's acne there's so many
different factors but it's also
important to keep in your mind that
having acne isn't the end of the world
and it's okay to have acne
so a lot of people will ask me if i
think veganism is the reason that my
acne was
able to clear up entirely and i think
it's hard i think everybody
has a different reason that their acne
is happening sometimes it's hormonal and
genetic and sometimes it's like a food
like mine
am i stressed more am i not sleeping am
i using a different detergent there's a
lot of different things i don't think
there's any
one factor that's going to improve
someone's acne 100 without having to
focus on
anything else in their lifestyle i've
changed the way that i even look at my
skin
so even if i still have some blemishes
or some marks i feel confident i love
myself and i don't feel like i'm any
less than anybody else
don't let acne hold you back from living
your life
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