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More 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.

So, vegans need to find sources of minerals, vitamins and protein, and some foods that contain valuable substances also contain higher percentages of carbs. Carbohydrates are actually sugar, or became blood sugar once your body transform them to glucose, to be able to use it as a fuel for daily processes. This way you end up consuming too much carbs, including hidden carbs.

Human organism satisfy its needs for fuel mostly using glucose. Once you get these extra few pounds, it is hard to get rid of them, because your body will use glucose reserves if you limit your food intake, not your reserves of fat. While people who eat meat and animal product can help themselves by forcing their bodies into ketosis, it is much harder for vegans to do the same thing.

Forcing your body into ketosis will help you get rid of your belly fat, and this type of fat is hardest to lose. The basic idea is to cut carbohydrates to get to the state where your organism uses released fat acids for providing energy that it usually gets from glucose. But the problem is that you must not cut the protein during this type of diet, and this might be difficult if you are vegan.

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.

As an example of these low carb vegetables, you can eat lettuce, kale, spinach, broccoli, garlic, cauliflower and, for example, cucumber. You should also stop eating fruits, especially bananas, and you have to exclude all sweeteners and sugars. Tubers, grains and legumes are also forbidden.

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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