Vegan - Lehigh Valley Magazine - Barry Lovelace

Thank YOU!

Special 'Thank You' to everyone who voted for me for

Lehigh Valley

Magazine's

'Best of the Valley - 2008 Personal Trainer'

I humbly accept this award and owe it to ALL my past & current clients

and members of FitQuest Fitness who make this dream possible.

Thanks again!
Barry

The only thing that inspires Barry more than getting people fit and healthy is his

vegan lifestyle. Barry has been living a strict vegan lifestyle for nearly ten years

now and loves it.

“I could never even imagine going back to my old way of eating, it

is unthinkable to me.”

Barry is actually one of the rare ones who literally went vegan overnight. His wife

had been vegetarian for ethical reasons and then vegan for some time and she

always said that when he was ready to know what she knew than he should ask her.

Well, the day came when he felt ready and he sat down and asked her to tell him

what she knew. She explained to him about the factory farms, the battery cages,

the veal crates, the milking, the gestation crates and so on.

Like most of us who learn the realities of the meat and dairy industry, he was

shocked, disgusted, ashamed and saddened by what he heard. He has been a vegan

ever since that moment. Perhaps this is also why he believes that people need to be

ready to hear about the cruelty issues instead of having it thrown at them in an

angry and accusing way.

It is interesting, to say the least, to be a fitness professional and a vegan. So much

of the industry is over run with the myth of athletes needing to overload on

protein to gain muscle and strength. Visions of muscle-encased men chugging raw

eggs is never far from the minds of many people. The flip side of people’s

misconceptions is the idea of vegans being pale, emaciated and weak. Barry enjoys

dispelling all of these myths by being a man who is very strong, energetic and fit

and also a vegan.

If you are interested in more information, guidance or your family is

contemplating a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, call or email Barry to set up a

consultation.

You can reach Barry at barry@barrylovelace.com or call (610) 266-7811