Weight Loss on a Vegan Diet

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No secret, Anna... simply taking in fewer calories than I was

expending! :-) Actually, I attribute a lot of the weight loss also to

the fact that I am a big believer in getting a MOVE on! I'm out there

walking or hiking most days of the week, and this also causes my

metabolism to speed up, and burn more calories of whatever I do put in

my body afterwards.

 

Diets don't work, as most everyone knows, so the only thing to do is

to eat well and exercise. This and blogs like FatFreeVegan

are an absolute Godsend! I challenge anyone, including carnivores, to

check out the recipes and look at Susan's photos of food and NOT

drool! But the proof is in the tofu pudding, right? I get my lab

results in about a week, and it will be interesting to see where I am

with that. My weight is the best it's been in years, and my blood

pressure is 122 over 68.

 

Back to the walking component... that's what our bodies were designed

to do, and it's true what they say: " use it or lose it " . I urge anyone

who's trying to lose weight to adopt a vegan (or at least mostly

vegan) diet and MOVE. Here's a link to something that has helped me in

that regard:

 

http://walking.about.com/

 

Congratulations, Anna, on that almost one-year anniversary! Woohoo! :-)

 

, Coop <rodstruelove wrote:

>

> Oh I want your secret! LOL I had hoped merely going vegan would

cause me

> to lose weight but unfortunately it hasn¹t. On February 26th I¹ll

have been

> vegan a year, and before that my cholesterol was on the high side of

normal.

> I would love to have that retested after a year vegan.

>

> Anna

>

>

> On 29/1/08 10:01 AM, " walker_nospam " <walker_nospam wrote:

>

> > Hi, all! I've been eating mostly vegan since last March, and strictly

> > vegan for the last several months, and tomorrow I'm having my first

> > physical in years!

> >

> > I really want to make sure that the blood test includes checking my

> > levels of B12, Vit. D, etc. Apparently that is not considered part of

> > the " routine " fasting blood test, I need to ask for that when I meet

> > with the doctor. Is there anything else I should be sure to mention?

> >

> > I haven't eaten meat or fish in decades, but as a vegetarian, ate way

> > too much dairy... ice cream and pizza really did me in! Thankfully

> > I've lost a lot of weight simply by going vegan. No dieting! Just

> > eating great, healthy vegan vittles! :-)

> >

> > Thanks in advance for any tips on preparing for this blood work! :-)

> >

>