Overweight Vegetarian! Yes it is possible.

janejellyroll

tiffpileg wrote: »

Go vegan girl! It is a lifesavor to your health. Trust me, the pounds will melt off

I gained all my weight as a vegan. I was able to lose it, but veganism isn't a magical weight loss method.

JoeyFrappuccino

kshama2001 wrote: »

JoeyFrappuccino wrote: »

I don't know how much I subscribe to the idea that your macros significantly, though indirectly, affect your weight, but vegetarian diets do seem to trend more towards high-carb than high-protein or -fat. And the large majority of vegetarians and particularly vegans I've known have been overweight or obese. I think the diet has maintained its association with health-freaks and continues to appeal to people looking to be healthier, and some probably think that as long as they're not eating meat, they'll be healthy (and not overweight).

All the vegans I met at yoga centers were normal - low normal weights. They focused on vegetables, legumes, and nuts, rather than just not-animal products.

Sounds about right. Most of the vegans I've met socially and especially during high school basically focused on not-animal products, but for a fitness group that would probably be the other way around.

JoeyFrappuccino

kshama2001 wrote: »

JoeyFrappuccino wrote: »

billieljaime wrote: »

JoeyFrappuccino wrote: »

I don't know how much I subscribe to the idea that your macros significantly, though indirectly, affect your weight, but vegetarian diets do seem to trend more towards high-carb than high-protein or -fat. And the large majority of vegetarians and particularly vegans I've known have been overweight or obese. I think the diet has maintained its association with health-freaks and continues to appeal to people looking to be healthier, and some probably think that as long as they're not eating meat, they'll be healthy (and not overweight).

So wrong Joey.... yesterday I netted 130 grams of carbs and my proteins and fats were on point. I chose this way for moral reasons.

If slaughter houses had glass walls you would chose this way too.

I am plant based that eats dairy. Occasional fish, very rarely I may have meat, only from a very specific local source in my area.

Not all of us are obese or overweight. Judgey mcjudgersonpants

Well great, I'm glad you found an agreeable amount of carbs, but what I said had nothing to do with you specifically. I was saying what I had found to be typical in my own experiences, and never tried to make it seem like anything but that. So not only am I not wrong, I conceded in a later post here that some studies showed the opposite of what I had seen. I've known many people who've tried going vegan for a few weeks to lose weight, more people than I've known to adopt it for ethical reasons. Again, this was not a personal attack on you.

I don't like doing the whole pious vegan thing, but I actually am vegan for moral reasons, and if slaughterhouses had glass walls you wouldn't eat dairy. As someone who is both vegan and a normal weight I understand that it's possible. I also understand that most plants are higher in carbs than in fats or protein. Nothing I said was judgmental, so it's unfortunate that you took my post as an attack rather than the opinion it was presented as.

By the way, my post was about vegetarians and vegans, so if you eat fish and meat (apparently fish are not animals?) none of this would apply to you anyway.

Did you mean "if dairy farms had glass walls you wouldn't eat dairy"? I'd agree with you if you meant conventional dairy, but we had dairy goats when I was growing up and I have no qualms about consuming dairy from small family farms where the animals are well treated.

No, I meant slaughterhouses. Dairy cows are typically sent to slaughterhouses after their milk production slows and they're processed into meat just as other cattle are. The person I was responding to brought up slaughterhouses so I assumed she was not talking about small family farms, but I agree that that would be a different story.

AshleyCMoody

Thanks breathebelievejen that was a ton of good info! Really appreciate your comment.

AshleyCMoody

In general, if a milking animal is not milked for an extended period of time (more than 1 or 2 days for a cow giving a normal volume of milk – dairy cows are typically milked two or three times per day), they are likely to become ill and may develop mastitis, which is an inflammation and infection in the udder.

AshleyCMoody

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I gained all my weight as a vegan. I was able to lose it, but veganism isn't a magical weight loss method.[/quote]

So true.

AshleyCMoody

I'm re-posting this for carob chip to view.