About 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.

Anyway, there are a few simple rules about what you should and what you should not eat while on keto diet. First, you should get up to 70 percent of your calorie intake from fats. You can use coconut oil, olive oil, avocado etc. For this purpose, as well as different nuts and previously soaked seeds. Considering the fact that you have to cut carbohydrates to a minimum, choose low-carbs vegetables.

Here are some examples of different low carbs vegetables, for example spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, cucumber and zucchini. Fruits contain high levels of carbs, and you should stop eating most of them. You should also stop eating tubers, grains and all other things that contain higher amounts of carbohydrates.

You should still eat vegan substitutes for meat and some dairy substitutes, but taking into account how much you are actually allowed to eat, considering various hidden carbs. All in all, you should never take more than 50 grams of carbs in a day, and this includes all hidden carbs. Make sure to get enough vitamins and minerals.




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