this feels like a strawman. I dont think anyone is going vegan to lose weight. 99% of people you see talk about it do it for ethical reasons.
There's often a confusion between people who go "whole-food plant-based" for personal health reasons, and people who go vegan which is about animal's rights. Of course a person can want both too.
In any case, people who adopt more plant-centric diets do often see a reduction is bodyweight, but it's not guaranteed. As the pic up top shows, it can still be very easy to have an unhealthy lifestyle even if it is plant-based.
The vegan I knew in college actually warned people about weight gain while she was pushing her veganism on us. "Its hard not to replace everything with carbs" was basically her spiel.
I did lose 10kg in 4 months when I cut a heavy portion of meat from my diet but that was because I was basically eating once a day and when I was still hungry in the evening I had rice with corn afterwards. I was not broke but cheap and keeping my fridge empty made it less likely to take something out of nothing.
Yeah but I did it for ethical reasons and ended up gaining weight very quickly lol
Bill Clinton did it to, though I think his doctor basically said he was dead if he didn’t.
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I know a vegan girl and she lives off of spice and soda.
like the drug or curry kind
😁 The Dune ones.
wait dorito is vegan? are you sure? a lot of spice mixes (i'm looking at you fritolay) use chicken bouillon in their "barbecue" mixes because they suck
I'm sure chickens give up bouillon willingly.
Famously everything other then cheese and onion is vegan, including Smokey Bacon somehow.
Most are not, but a handful of certain flavors are
Mostly dairy products which make it non-vegan. Certainly not chicken bouillon
Vegans eat a LOT of beans to be healthy.
Hey, vegan here! Idk, I guess I do? I eat a lot of tofu which is soy, so if you count that then YEAH. But tofu is so easy to make into what you want it to be that it rarely feels like the same thing, you know? I eat a lot MORE beans then before, but I never stopped to think about it...
The only way I'd be able to tell is if someone watched my diet and went "eating enough beans, my guy?" Lol
That's only a downside for the coworkers
I know this is a shitpost, but how do you get all your nutrients on a vegan or vegetarian diet? I'm considering reducing my meat intake but am worried about the nutrient thing
Protein: legumes (beans, lentils, peanuts, chickpeas, tofu and other solid soy products)
Calcium: fortified plant milks (convenient) or cruciferous leaves and flowers (healthy) such as collards, kale, or broccoli. Tofu is a good source too. Avoid excessive intakes of salt.
Iron: eat vitamin-C rich food with your meals, such as bell peppers, lemon/lime juice on your food, or drink orange juice.
B-12: you must supplement, either with gummies, fortified plant milk or processed vegan products (vegan sausages, vegan "turkey" slices, etc.)
A vitamin: carrots, cruciferous leaves and flowers (see calcium), squash, cantaloup. Eat with fatty food for better absorption. Eg. Minestrone soup (kale and olive oil)
Omega-3 : tofu is a good source. Flaxseed oil has enough in a teaspoon – it works well on salads. Some nuts are a good source too.
Please visit https://veganhealth.org/ for more information. This site is authored by a registered dietetician.
https://nutritionfacts.org/ is great too.
Thank you!!
I just want to add that B-12 is often missing from or low in many omnivores' diets too, not just vegans. Another good source of B-12 is nutritional yeast. It's like an umami flavored (some people call compare it to cheese, but I don't really think it has a cheese taste and don't want to disappoint anyone) powder that you can add to whatever you want. Works really well incorporated in a recipe or just sprinkled on top of stuff.
You can pretty much survive on black beans and onions.
Iirc, beans have everything you need except for vitamin c, but I could be wrong about that.
You’re unlikely to be lacking most nutrients in a first world country, even eating tons of junk food.
That’s not me saying it’s okay to live on junk food, that’s me saying essential nutrients aren’t going to be your problem.
Edit:
I looked it up. You’ll be missing some components of a complete protein, so eat some grains too.
Red beans and rice is a good dish that will give you vital protein.
And a bit of lime juice for acid will make it taste great and round out a few more vitamins.
Corn, beans, and squash is technically a viable diet and was used by a few native american groups for centuries. Its a full protein and very nutritionally dense. It is called the three sisters but they sometimes consumed sunflowers as a fourth sister for their fat content.
If you plan to reduce your meat intake, you don't have to consider anything, really.
If you plan to eat fully vegan, you should look up B12 supplements and make sure to get some proteins (beans, lentils, tofu etc). The whole nutrition thing is not as big a problem as you think it is, though. If you're unsure, maybe get a blood test done after a few months.
There are no nutrients that are exclusively available via meat/dairy. The only thing you might miss out on is B12, but that's usually supplemented in a lot of the vegan substitutes/junk food alternatives already. Anything else you'll get pretty easily by simply eating your regular veggies, beans, legumes etc.
If you truly care about nutrients, then get your blood tested and have them check what you are actually lacking, and then adjust or supplement your diet accordingly. Chances are that you are already low on something even when eating animal products.
About 5-6 years ago I did the same thing. I'm still a shameless omnivore, but I managed to reduce my meat consumption significantly. Around 2024 (so several years after I started) I had to get my blood analyzed. The only thing they found was my lack of vitamin D, but I live in a country with ~~minimal~~ suboptimal* sun exposure, so it's a thing here anyway.
Note that I still eat meat, but way less often than before. I started with a maximum of two meaty days per week (no cap on meat those days), but not as a fixed schedule: I just allowed myself when I really craved it, but not more than 2 days a week. Can be 1 or 0.
Fast forward to the end of 2023, when I started thinking about when I last had meat, and I couldn't remember. It wasn't quite hard, to be honest: there are awesome veggie meals around, and I still eat dairy and eggs whenever.
It's clearly because of the weed. Munchies be too powerful to quell.
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