Vegan Lifestyle Weight Loss Plan

By Pamela Reynolds


It doesn't matter what you eat, you can still gain weight, especially if you eat too much, or you don't have organized and balanced meals. The same thing is with vegans as well. If you don't eat meat, it doesn't mean that you don+t eat too much sugar, or carbohydrates. When you switch to vegan, you will probably lose weight at first, but, if you continue eating too much, you will sooner or later need a vegan lifestyle weight loss plan.

Vegan diet is mostly based on grains and vegetables, as well as dairy substitutes, mostly soy products. This type of diet requires taking care of total amount of minerals and vitamins contained in each type of foods, and counting calories isn't the most important thing. More important problem is finding a good source of protein your body needs.

Since your body needs enough protein, you have to balance your diet carefully. In fact, caring about protein intake often ends up with too much carbs. Another problem is that you have to consume larger amount of different foods to satisfy your organism's daily needs. If your meals aren't balanced properly, you won't have enough energy and you will feel hunger.

To be able to work properly, your body needs energy. It is programmed to use glucose as a predominant source, and this is really blood sugar. It comes from sugars you eat, but also from all carbs you consume, including grains and numerous hidden carbs. You can actually force your body to start using other sources, forcing it into the state of ketosis, which is quite simple for people who eat meat.

The best thing about ketosis is that you lose fat from your belly, and this type of fat is hard to lose using different types of diets. When it ketosis, the body starts releasing fat acids from fat cells reserves, and it uses these fat acids as a fuel, instead of using glucose. The most difficult thing for vegans here is to consume enough protein during this process.

In any case, you have to cut some things, and to eat other things. The point is to use mostly fats, and they should count around 70 percent of your daily calorie intake. Here are some examples of foods containing high levels of fat, for example, vegetable oils, avocado, nuts, previously soaked seeds and other similar foods. Dark green vegetables are really good, and you could also choose different low carbs vegetables.

That's why you should know more about the amount of carbs in each vegetable. For example, you can eat kale, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, cucumber and cauliflower. Needless to say that you should stop eating most fruits, starting with bananas, apples and similar. You should also stop eating legumes, tubers and all grains.

Since you have to get enough protein, you have to eat vegetable protein, dairy substitutes and vegan meats, but be careful not to exceed your 50 gram of carbohydrates limit. Leafy greens, organic coconut oil and avocado, with balanced vitamin and minerals ratio, and you will soon get rid of your belly fat. This might be a little bit more difficult for you than for others, but you can do it.




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