Vegan for a month?

babel95

I'm about to start Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred for the second time on Friday. The program says you could lose up to 20 pounds in 30 days. Jillian is a vegan, so does that mean to better my chances of losing 20 pounds, I should go vegan, too? And if so, when the 30 days are up, would eating meat/dairy make me sick afterwards?

allie_rat

Meat or dairy are only ever going to make you feel ill if you have an intolerance to them. Going vegan might well make you loose weight, but only because it would make you pay much more attention to ingredients in what you are eating. You might find that doing it for just 30 days could upset your digestive system, you'd be making changes twice fairly quickly that would affect it. Ultimately, if you can't sustain a vegan diet in the long run, there is little point in doing it short term as you'd likely put weight on again when you stopped doing it. I wouldn't worry about loosing 20lbs in 30 days, I'd concentrate on making healthy choices that you can keep up.

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

I'm vegan and I like it but you need to make sure you're getting enough protein and eating something like flax for your omega 3's. My solution is to take a few servings of protein powder, 2 tbsp of milled flax seeds, 1/2 tsp of baking soda, cinnamon, splenda, and water and cooking it into a pancake. I get my protein and omega 3's by eating one easily prepared food.

now_or_never13

Whether you eat vegan or not it won't change the progress you can make on that program. As long as you eat less than you consume. Vegan eating won't make you lose any extra weight over another diet.

With the 30DS, I have yet to see someone who has lost 20lbs in those 30 days. That would be just under a pound a day which is not healthy to lose.

LoseYouself

I'm about to start Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred for the second time on Friday. The program says you could lose up to 20 pounds in 30 days. Jillian is a vegan, so does that mean to better my chances of losing 20 pounds, I should go vegan, too? And if so, when the 30 days are up, would eating meat/dairy make me sick afterwards?

Jillian Michaels isn't vegan.

Bob was for a while, but is just vegetarian now.

laylaness

I wouldn't count on losing a bunch of pounds on 30DS. I've done it twice, and I like it, but you lose more inches than weight.

Also, you can still gain weight being vegan... what matters is calories in vs. calories out.