New Year's Resolution: Getting into the Momentum with Giacomo Marchese from VeganProteins.com

“It's important to focus on listening to your body, think about how it's responding, and what you're getting out of it. It's really easy to be inspired by other people, and to think that that's gonna work for you. And it's the person, it's problematic when you're inspired by one person's process, because their path is probably different than yours. And also their bodies are different from yours.” - Giacomo Marchese   Welcome to The Fit Vegan Podcast, I’m your host, Luckie Sigouin! Today, we are with Giacomo Marchese from VeganProteins.com as he discusses some practical tips to adhere to on our way to creating our New Year’s Resolutions. This reveals the importance of dreaming and careful planning to ensure the momentum of habit-building. Giacomo is the co-founder of VeganProteins.com and also co-founded PlantBuilt.com, a non profit organization of strength based vegan athletes who compete together to raise awareness for veganism and money for rescued animals at farm sanctuaries. In this episode, we cover   [00:01 - 07:12] Initiating the Veganism Advocacy through Non-Profit Organizations [07:13 - 11:14] The Spiritual, Emotional, and Practical Implications of Being Vegan [11:15 - 15:29] Allow Yourself to Dream then Plan Realistically [15:30 - 19:10] Habit-Building: Working with It, not Against It [19:11 - 22:18] Biting the Bullet of False Starts via Consistency [22:19 - 25:38] The Dangers of Over-Celebrating Small Wins [25:39 - 32:51] The Virtue of Listening to Your Body [32:52 - 38:39] Closing Segment Key Quotes   “It's about something bigger than ourselves. And it's not even about the team or the individual. It's the passion, that we have a message out there of compassion, as a collective.” - Giacomo Marchese   “Some of the bad habits will just disappear, some of them will stick. And as you discover which one to stick in, you start to ask yourself, why you look at your look at, like, what's triggering that, and you do a little bit of that wo