What are your guys thoughts on the diet?
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I was vegan for a year while dating another vegan.
It was straight terrible.
You can’t eat anything good and you end up compensating with carbs,
Making it not very good for losing weight.
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For me personally it’s a dangerous diet because I don’t like supplements so I’d be missing out on b12 very important vitamin lack of can even lead to psychosis.
It’s one of those diets where I’d have to eat nutrient dense foods. Cos otherwise id be missing out on stuff. I suppose I could drink fortified b12 non dairy milk but I feel I need it from a natural source too
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I couldn’t do it. I like cheese too much. Trying to be a pescatarian (mostly vegetarian but the consumption of fish is still allowed) though.
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I could never do it because I couldn’t give up dairy and egg products.
I was an ovolactopescatarian for quite a long time. I really didn’t miss meat much
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Interesting perspectives everyone!
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I’m with @antidepressant044 gotta have that cheese baby!
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I was vegan for a few months. I had to stop because I lost too much weight too quickly and my doctor was worried
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My sister in law is vegan and it is not good for a diabetic like me because it is carb heavy.
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I tried going vegetarian for philosophical reasons, thinking all life is a miracle. Then I thought it is the natural order of things to feed off “inferior” animals.
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Ive been vegan for 7 years?
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how did you do with weight? at first?
i’m very new to vegan this time around but i did well for 6 strict months 10 years ago
i’d love advice from you
i’ve gone off cheese i hate it
i dont’ like sweet milky eggy cake
Example - yesterday
i had
3 vegan chocolates
and a vegan ice cream
and a bag of chips for junk food
a big bowl of cornflakes with sugar and soya milk
bit of toast with peanut butter
a whole broccoli
and a load of home made baked beans with a jacket potato
This is what i’m trying
as much junk food as i can without weight gain
i have a lot of binge starve binge history
also can’t purge on this medication it’s impossible on high dose fluoxetine
been hugely on a weight gain curve for about a year
most of that time i was trying to be sugar free vegan
tried sugar free for 5 yrs now but i still keep binging
hence allowed sugar at the moment
i hope it’s without weight gain anyway this - i need to take a look at the kcal
ps replied to you above as well
I was vegan for 8 years
I didnt notice any big changes in losing weight. Maybe just mainting it.
I dont have the best diet…i eat a lot of unhealthy stuff still. Being vegan will definitely help with your weight though especially if you include exercise.
I am in the process of transitioning to the McDougall plan, which is a form of the vegan diet, no animal products or oils, whole grains plant based. I eat whole grains, beans, lentils, tofu, greens, and vegetables. I supplement with small amounts of nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. I am not a fruit eater so I don’t buy it, but you can eat it on this plan. I take B12 once a week and a daily multivitamin.
I don’t eat vegan junk food or highly processed meat substitutes. I want to lose weight. I eat beans, lentils, and tofu, not fake meat. You can totally be a fat vegan (I have been in the past) by eating all that junk and high oils. McDougall is clean eating.
I still have some pantry items like granola and ready-to-eat grain pouches that contain small amounts of oil, so I am going to use those up and then I intend to be 100% McDougall by January 1.
I am not saying this is the right program for everyone, but I have done a lot of research on nutrition since March of this year, and I finally found what is right for ME.
i was vegetarian for 3 years, then vegan for 4 years following that. actually i lost weight, i got down to 130 pounds, because i didn’t eat a lot.
it’s doable and the food can be good, but it is carb heavy.
now im eating meat again, since im trying to put on muscle and gain strength. which can also be done on a vegan diet, but i just didn’t want to rely on protein powders and eat tons of beans. i plan on going back to vegetarianism once I’ve reached my physique and strength goals.
here’s some suggestions for a vegan diet;
breakfast, smoothie, oatmeal, and granola
lunch, rice and beans, large garden salad, soup
dinner, baked potato with mustard, olive oil, and peas, broccoli, salad, more soup
snack, pistachios and fruit.
I’ve heard if you’re going vegan you may want to add nutritional yeast for b12
I don’t see the point of being vegan. I think moral confusion is the cause of most of it.
I’d like to stop eating meat because of the meat industry. I’d still eat meat from animals that were hunted. And eggs, and fish.
I also kill insects if they’re annoying. I’m not going to spend 5 minutes and 100 times more calories than that insect will ever need to save it. That’s also moral confusion.
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