Overweight vegetarian

nika11223344

Hi, my name is Nika and I am an obese vegetarian... Please contact me if you have a similar issue ... I need some help and advise

DancingMoosie

Just log your food and take smaller portions or lighter choices.

AnnPT77

What do you need help or advice about? Ask questions here in the Community, and people will do their best to help you.

(I'm a formerly obese vegetarian: Overweight to obese for around 30 years, then a year to lose to a healthy weight, followed by most recent 6+ years now at a healthy weight. I've been vegetarian even longer, 47+ years, thin to fat to obese and back again.)

mommyrebeck

Hi! I’m also vegetarian and obese. I have to be careful on consuming too many carbs instead of eating vegetables.

alison8522

Hi, I am also an obese vegetarian, my diet is terrible and consists mainly of cheese, bread and potatoes. I need to find new recipes and try to get more protein into my diet. If you have any high protein, healthy recipes please share

AnnPT77

alison8522 wrote: »

Hi, I am also an obese vegetarian, my diet is terrible and consists mainly of cheese, bread and potatoes. I need to find new recipes and try to get more protein into my diet. If you have any high protein, healthy recipes please share

There are a bunch of threads here about that, that you can find by using the search function in the Community. Here's just one example, for starters:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10853413/simple-vegetarian-recipes

Usually the threads that would help you would be about vegetarian or vegan recipes (maybe search within the Recipes part of the Community for the terms vegan/vegetarian); or some would be about getting enough protein as a vegan/vegetarian, which suggests some other search terms. There are lots of web sites with vegan/vegetarian recipes, and you'll find links to those in posts here, too. (I can't suggest any because I don't generally follow recipes: I just cook, improvising in the moment.)

One caution: There are some vegetarian/vegan advocacy sources and sites that push bad science, basically propaganda to persuade people to become veg. I'm not dissing vegetarianism/veganism: I've been vegetarian for 47+ years. Science for us - including nutrition science - is not different from science for omnivores.

This is a good site about nutrition when plants are a significant source of protein:

https://veganhealth.org/

It's aimed at vegans, but it includes good, solid science-based information for anyone shifting their diet toward more plant-sourced protein. It relies on registered dietitians (good credentials) who are also vegans.

There is lots of advice I could give about getting enough protein as a vegetarian, but you'll find it in the threads pretty easily, I think, among good advice from others. (I'm in year 6+ of maintenance now, 5'5" in mid-120s pounds, after multiple previous decades of obesity. I target 100g protein as a daily minimum, and routinely exceed it. When I was losing, it was a little less with fewer calories available, but high 80s to 90s grams, typically. It's achievable. I'm ovo-lacto veg (don't eat many eggs, but a good bit of dairy), but I'm pretty sure I could hit the numbers fully plant based . . . that's just not my personal preference.)

If you haven't see it yet, join the Happy Herbivores group here:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/45-happy-herbivores

It's only lightly active these days, but includes lots of older threads with useful ideas.

Any vegetarian who wants to see what I personally eat is welcome to send me a friend request. I don't accept requests from totally-private profiles (i.e., no profile text in the web side of MFP) that also have no Community posts history, because I've found those low-visibility ones to have too high an incidence of creepers and scammers. (Li'l ol' lady needs none of that!) I accept all requests that I can see sensible info from, somewhere. I'm kind of a sub-par MFP friend (more of a Community forum gal, I guess), but my diary is open to friends. I'm a nutrition-centric eater, and eat mostly simple/traditional foods by taste-preference rather than highly-processed foods, but I'm not religious about whole foods, "clean" (whatever that means?), etc. In maintenance, so I have a higher calorie allowance (active, too), but I do have quite a few calorie-efficient meals.

Wishing you much success here on MFP - it's achievable, with attention and commitment, and so, so worthwhile! (I wish I'd accomplished a healthy weight decades earlier.)