Vegan Lifestyle Weight Loss Plan

By Pamela Reynolds


Once you start being a vegan, you will probably lose a few pounds. This healthy lifestyle brings numerous benefits, but, after your organism gets used to this new regime, you can still gain weight, whatever people might think about it. So, if something like this happens to you, a vegan lifestyle weight loss plan might become quite useful.

Even if you consume less calories, it doesn't guarantees that you will start losing weight. With limited choice of foods, and knowing that your body needs to get certain things, for example protein, vegans have limited choice of diets they could try. Considering the fact their meals are mostly based on grains and dairy substitutes, they have to find a balance.

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.

Your body is set up to use glucose as a primary source of fuel. When you want to lose weight, you have to cut calorie intake, to force your body to use its reserves. Glucose reserves are small, and they will be soon gone and the body will start using fat reserves. Unfortunately, it will use fats from all areas of the body, but not so much those placed on your belly, because that's how it works.

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.

The whole idea is to eat predominantly fats, while cutting carbohydrates, and to also consume adequate amounts of protein. So, the source of fat is easy to find. This may include vegetable oils, primarily olive and coconut oil, soaked seeds, avocado and, of course, nuts. When it comes to other foods, for example vegetables, you have to choose those with low percentage of carbs only.

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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