Can not lose any weight after becoming vegetarian?

Eat more beans, like black beans and pinto beans. I don't think you have to/need to go low carb, but you can even as a vegetarian. The other thing to keep in mind is watch the cheese. I was eating a ton of cheese up until January this year. When I say a ton I mean like 6 to 8 ounces of cheese a day, it was my main protein. I still managed to lose some weight though because I am so heavy that just quitting meat meant a calorie cut. Plus I had a lot of no cheese days. I would have lost a lot faster though if I would have made a bigger effort to eat more beans and less cheese.

I've been vegi for almost 25 yrs, healthy weight for most of it until I hit my 30's. Cheese and carbs were my downfall. Since January 2012 I've lost almost 40lbs, happy where I am but I still have to watch my portions.

You are welcome to add me for any ideas for your meals, although some can be repetitive......

Becoming vegetarian doesn't mean you will lose weight. Did you know there are also fat vegetarians?

Cut back on the carbs, add in more protein and fats. Log your food properly, use a kitchen scale because they are the most accurate way to know how many calories you are consuming.

I'm a fat vegetarian! Or I was. I'm a work in progress.

I also ate way too many simple carbohydrates and cheese. I too thought that since I was eating vegetarian and no junk food, that I didn't have to think about portions. WRONG.

I get my protein from beans and gluten. Occasionally, I'll indulge in pre-made soy products, like chick patties. I should use more tempeh, but I forget about it. I try to avoid diary, especially cheese. When I stopped eating cheese I lost 15lbs!! I think a lot of it was water because cheese is so salty.

Being vegetarian can be easy, delicious, and healthy. Get some veggie cook books from the library, measure your portions, track yourself on MFP, and you'll lose the extra weight.

Look, I know that I'm a total newb to this whole fitness thing, but I'm definitely no newbie when it comes to vegetarianism. When I was 14, I began a vegetarian diet, and that lasted until I was 18. I'll admit that I probably ate more processed foods then than I do now, seeing as I was a teenager and just learning how to cook. I also probably did eat more cheese than I did beans. While I've never been a strict vegetarian after that point, I've been eating less meat than most Americans. After college, I lived in a vegetarian community for 4 years and probably only ate meat once a week or so when I went to a restaurant. Now that I've left that community, I find I only eat meat maybe once every two or three days.

My strict vegetarian years were the ones that saw my weight skyrocket, and that completely perplexed me because I wasn't gorging myself at every meal or snacking heavily. But I still went from a size 10/12 to a size 22/24 over that time span (and only grew a couple inches). Unfortunately, my doctor during those years didn't consider weight gain in young people much of a problem and thought I was making a great lifetime decision by learning how to be vegetarian as a teen. I switched doctors when I was 19, and the new fellow had a completely different tune. He hypothesized that the vegetarian diet did not play well with my changing hormones. I created a typical two-week food intake for him, and I was appalled to see how much carbohydrates I was eating and how little protein! The doctor said my carb-heavy diet essentially gave me insulin resistance that then turned into PCOS...and that started the runaway weight gain.

Your body chemistry might just not work well with the type of vegetarian diet you're experimenting with. You really should talk things over with a doctor and/or nutritionist, and maybe have some tests done.

You can still eat a lot of meat free meals if you turn out to be like me. You might just have to modify. These days, the only way I can keep a mostly vegetarian diet without going into a danger zone with my carbs is by making sure I eat lowfat cottage cheese, lowfat Greek yogurt (Fage 0%), eggs, or tofu with practically every meat-free meal, and by making sure the majority of my vegetables are consumed in the form of a big dark leafy-green salad. (Unfortunately, I've eaten so many of those salads over the past 6 years, I just can't get excited about them anymore!) Grains, beans, lentils...all of those are in "special treats" categories for me, so I have to closely monitor the quantity of those I consume.

It's really all about the carbs you are eating. When I first became a pescetarian (only eating seafood, but I mainly stick to veggie options or tofu) I did notice a slight increase in weight. I realized it was mainly due to having too much bread with my meal as a way to get full. Just stick with it and switch to eating a LOT of green veggies and beans. Giving up meat can be great for your digestive system too, so once you incorporate higher fiber foods you should see a decrease in weight from that alone. Some great books to read would be "skinny *****" and "the water secret". Keep up the great work and exercise and the lbs will start to come off ps: I've been a pescetarian for over 2 years and I'm 30 lbs lighter now than I was then.

I've been a vegetarian for about 4 years simply because I hate the taste of meat (I do however eat seafood). Various people over the years have told me I'm going to get fat because "vegetarians snack more then people who eat mea because they don't get full as quickly". Make sure you watch how much you're eating!
Also make sure you're still getting enough of the right vitamins and minerals, I was anaemic for a while and had to take iron tablets.
Get the things you're missing out on from things like spinach, nuts, eggs, mushrooms etc.

I didn't gain weight went I cut out meat, but that's just me.

Just throwing this out there but based on science your blood type has a lot to do with health and losing weight. I started the blood type diet July 2, 2011 at a size 18/240 lbs and by Dec 2011 I was wearing a size 6. I've tried every darn diet out there. This one dropped weight like no other. It's very strict but not strict in being hungry...just strict in my favorite foods were totally off limit. I'm an O Blood type therefore carbs/starches are my number one weight gain factor. According to science an O could not live healthy for life on a vegetarian diet and will gain weight but an A blood type will thrive on a vegetarian diet. Remember this diet is based on science...it's not based on here say by someone saying it worked for them so it will work for everyone. This diet is individualized. We are all different.

No. Just no.

Your blood type has nothing to do with your diet. I understand the above poster does believe so, but the above poster was at a calorie deficit.

Science has actually debunked that "diet"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140115172246.htm
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/blood-type-diet-total-bunk-study-article-1.1585491

I'm sorry but that diet didn't have ANY scientific backing.

It's really all about the carbs you are eating.

It's not about carbs either. I'd never have managed to lose weight if it's all about carbs. It's calorie deficit.

OP get a food scale. Weigh and measure EVERYTHING you eat. Read those links above. They will help.

the blood type diet is NOT based on science. it has been thouroughly debunked on several occasions.

I am glad it works for you, and by all means, keep on keeping on,. It just isn't science-based.