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I have to vent. I'm having difficulties Staying on a vegan diet! Help!

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This.

Thank you.

Yeah, even saturated fat serves a purpose. Everyone needs a tiny bit of it on a daily basis -- saturated fat insulates organs and aids in building cells.

Jules Victoria said:

But you need fat in your diet. There is almost no nutritional value to lettuce (depending on the lettuce - and then still very little) you cannot live off lettuce!!!

As I said, it's not about eating as little as possible (or as few calories) and exercising as much as you can to lose weight.

You will go into starvation mode and you will hang on to fat. Now, I'm not saying that you have to eat meat. Just that you don't have to be a veggie or vegan to lose weight. You need to give your body the good fats (from healthy meat, avocado, seeds, particular oils, etc) so you can function hormonally (especially for women) or your body will hang onto anything it can get for dear life.

One thing to keep in mind is that we are all different and no one rule works for everyone.

The other thing is that if you are eating fake foods (processed, manufactured, etc) or ingesting lots of pesticides then your body will hang onto fat to protect itself from the fat soluble toxins you are ingesting.

Oreos are vegan... doesn't mean they're good for you.

soaring eagle said:

lean meats still have more fat content then a head of letuce

updated by @laura-earle: 07/23/15 07:37:55AM

I have to vent. I'm having difficulties Staying on a vegan diet! Help!

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Ya think lettuce would be an adequate replacement for meat, then? FYI, it has next to no protein.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-lettuce000000000000000000000.html

soaring eagle said:

lean meats still have more fat content then a head of letuce

I have to vent. I'm having difficulties Staying on a vegan diet! Help!

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That's the short answer. If you're an individual with no health conditions that affect how your body processes nutrients then yeah, burning more than you take in will result in weight loss. However, since PCOS causes insulin resistance, many sufferers have some inevitable weight gain.

http://women.webmd.com/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-and-weight-gain

Yeah, yeah, I know...it's WebMD...but it does a good job of explaining it in plain English.

Sirick said:

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I have to vent. I'm having difficulties Staying on a vegan diet! Help!

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You're spot-on about the carb myths, but "lean" meat not being lean? Um.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4146/2

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4174/2

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sausages-and-luncheon-meats/1501/2

There are much, much more. This is just what's in my fridge right now.

soaring eagle said:

well

lets not discount fats involvement in making ppl fat

yes calories are 1 thing ..but calories are esential fuel for energy 2000 calories is typical but someone who runs marathons might need 4000 just to deal with the 2000 they burn

now heres something interesting or well odd there was a couple i saw years ago they almost ate no calories bu8t took mega doses of vitamins

thier daily excersize involved moving a finger and holding up the weight of thier heads

and they were so extremnely musclebound they looked alien (since they didnt excersize exactly some muscl groups were massibve others not) thier necks looked like tree trunks ..just from head movements

forearms were like popeye..extremely exagerated

it was scary looking

but thats just an off the wall point

back to what i was saying ..carbs being responcible is a fad a gimmik carbs are turned into sugars..sustainable sugars ..reducing carbs you can create a low blood sugar situation easily

in fact fore diabetics carbs not sugars are a way better way to regulate blood sugar cause its slow and sustained not spikes like sugars cause

but fats

meats even lean meats are high in fat content this is why heart disease clogged arteries etc are such a problem

true meat eaters and omnivores that rely on meat mostly have short intestines to eliminate the fat b4 its absorbed

its the fat content more then anything thats making ppl so fat

I have to vent. I'm having difficulties Staying on a vegan diet! Help!

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Have a feeling that this is going to turn out just like how it did the last time I decided to open up this particular can of worms on this site, but hey, I'm not afraid of the interwebz vegan police...I just hate seeing people make such radical alterations to their diet for the sole purpose of shedding pounds.

You DO NOT have to go vegan in order to lose significant weight. HOWEVER, if you have an honest interest in the vegan diet/lifestyle, then why not go for it. You only live once.

Weight loss is a result of burning more Calories than you consume on a regular basis, over a period of time. Well, that's the short answer. You can have 1,200-whatever Calories of junk every day (I feel like 1,200 is standard for weight loss, but you'll need to talk to a doc about that) and feel like a lethargic bag of s!@# all the time. Or, you can have 1,200 Calories of high-energy carbs, lean proteins, fruits, and veggies, and feel even better than you did prior to starting your diet. Both methods should result in weight loss, but you'd also need to tailor your healthy diet (...you'd go with diet #2, right? Right? Haha) to your own needs. Factor in how much exercise you typically get per day, your health conditions, etc.

So you have PCOS? I'm not a doctor -- just an individual who enjoys studying health and wellness -- but I've heard that some people use diets high in soy to combat PCOS. Soy contains estrogen, and hey, it's also vegan -- yay?

And, lastbutnotleast, a fun fact. This kinda relates to my first point, and it's also for anyone on here who's previously referred to me or another omnivore as an overweight, unethical slob, etc (seriously, it got really nasty last time) --

I'm an omnivore with a plant-based diet. Lean meat is a 3-4x a week thing, while low-fat dairy is an every day thing (mm, yogurt). Fruits, veggies, and grains are all-the-time things.

I'm pretty active. I can kill a mile in about seven minutes and barely break a sweat. Can run 3-5 miles on flat terrain before getting worn out. I can do between seven and 10 pull-ups on a good day, and can pretty much hoop until the cows come home.

I eat between 1,500 and 2,000 Calories a day, and -- gasp -- have brought my BMI up to 19.5 (normal) from 18 (underweight) for the first time EVER, this year. The body mass index isn't always the best method of analyzing someone's weight, but I don't have a ridiculous amount of muscle, so it serves just fine here.

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