High carb vegan diet

ajones1965

I eat a meat free diet, the only dairy I have is whey protein after exercise. I have found it a useful diet to follow as I try to eat a large proportion of whole foods. Cheese was always something I over ate, I don't like meat. I find that my options can be limited and as such I tend to be conscious of what I eat and make sensible choices. I eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, soy, nuts ,beans etc I watch my fat intake and I don't cook with oil but I do eat nuts, so get healthy fat..I have had some good results in terms of weight loss and improved health. I no longer suffer from reflux and digestive problems, my skin is better and most importantly my blood sugar is much better controlled. It isn't for everybody. This is purely my experience of this type of eating.

dbmata

I think this is related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6tTv_DEY7s&list=UUduKuJToxWPizJ7I2E6n1kA

somethingsemioriginal

what is your primary source of protein? do you consume all the essential amino acids required by us.

The 10 amino acids that humans can produce are alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine and tyrosine. Tyrosine is produced from phenylalanine, so if the diet is deficient in phenylalanine, tyrosine will be required as well. The essential amino acids are arginine (required for the young, but not for adults), histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. These amino acids are required in the diet.

If you only do vegan, no wonder you have to eat 4000 cals a day as you must have to complement a lot of foods to make up for the nutrition. Plus you would have to take supplements high in iron as iron from plant sources is not very well absorbed by human body.

As far as care for the animals is concerned, what about the care for the plants. So if all started eating like you are doing (4000 cals/day) or more, then there would not be enough plants to feed the vegan brigade. Plus, dont you know that even plants feel pain as has been proven in various lab experiments. So just because they are mute and cant move, its ok for you to eat their raw limbs aka raw veggies?!

Therefore, do yourself a favour, stop preaching, live and let live

No study has ever shown that plants can "feel" pain. While they can respond to stimuli, they lack a central nervous system and brain in order to "feel" anything.

diabolick12

Could you give us an example of your eating plan? I think it would help to "calm" the querelle here.

What do you have at your meals? Most importantly what do you snack on?
Seen that some commercial junk food can be vegan, what are your boundaries?

I have started a vegan (sugar free and almost alcohol free) diet plan which I intend to follow for the next 2 or 3 week (hey I'm on day1 so I'm just being rational). We could share meal plans?

WBB55

sorta old thread is old.

I lost a lot of weight when i went raw/vegan. Then my doctor said I wasn't very good at it. She said (1) she could prescribe me fancy supplements and pills.

Or (2) I could eat meat a couple times a week.

<-- Flexitarian