Topic: Herbies

Meet our Herbie of the Week: Erik B!

Erik was nominated as Herbie of the Week by his wife, Kristen, who emailed me earlier this year telling me how he lost 75lbs since going plant-based after Father's Day of last year.

As soon as I read her touching email, I knew he was the perfect candidate!

Read on for Erik's story (in his wife's words)...

Erik's journey began only one year ago (in June 2013) after I (his wife, a …

Meet our Herbie of the Week: Rebecca B!

Rebecca's story is a very unique one. After years of being unhappy and struggling with her weight she adopted a plant-based lifestyle -- but didn't get the results she expected.

Refusing to give up, one day it finally clicked for Rebecca: she had been focusing on material happiness and not happiness for herself. Once she started to listen to her body, everything else started to fall into place.

Get inspired by reading …

A couple months ago the following email from Holli popped up in my inbox:

"Thanks to your helpfulness and cookbooks we wouldn't be where we are today! Almost 9 months in and a combined ~50 lbs down. We both haven't seen these weights or felt this good in around 10-15 years!"

I was amazed!

I also found out that Holli and her hubby weren't the only ones in their family benefiting from a plant-based diet -- both of …

Meet our Herbies of the Week: Jill & Gloria!

Earlier this summer, Gloria left this comment on the Happy Herbivore Facebook page:

"My partner and I went vegan March 6th 2013. We educated ourselves with books, documentaries, and articles off the Internet. We came across your 1st cookbook. And now we own all of them. It has helped us with eating healthy and our weight loss. We haven't hit our goal yet but we're closer than ever. We …

I think my crowning achievement on this blog has been the Herbies of the Week series, which I look forward to every Monday!

This series started three years ago (back in 2011) and I'm always in awe, inspired, and touched, when I think about all the different people and their amazing stories, that have been shared here every week.

I've decided to start reaching out to our past Herbies of the Week to see where they are today, a year …