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    • I STOPPED EATING MEAT AND MY STOMACH GOT BIGGER

    Posts: 122 Member
    edited February 21 in Health and Weight Loss
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    About 2 weeks ago, my cousin and I decided to do a Vegan week!! Nothing with eyes, for 1 week just to try jump start our weight loss. My stomach wasn't flat to start with (I had a lil pooch ) but I now have a POUCH!!! What the hell is going on? Is it something in that meatless meat I don't know about?

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    • Posts: 3,886 Member
      Processed soy products, just like all other processed food products, tend to have a lot of sodium. You don't need to add fake meats to be vegan. However, as you found out, going vegan (or vegetarian, or wheat-free, or anything else) doesn't have anything to do with weight loss. You can lose, gain or maintain your weight just as easily on a vegan diet as you can eating meat.
    • Posts: 3,705 Member
      You were probably also eating more carbs and restoring glycogen levels which increases water weight.
    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      Going vegan will not necessarily jump start your weight loss. Change in weight is primarily dictated by calories in/out.
    • Posts: 109 Member
      I've been vegetarian for 7 years.
      I've been 200+ lbs as one, and I've been under my current goal weight as one.
      A vegetarian/ vegan lifestyle shouldn't have anything to do with weight loss. Eat food that you plan on eating for the rest of you life- it'll make the process way easier.
      I eat a lot of meatless meat products and they are PACKED with sodium. I drink at least 10 glasses of water a day when I eat any of those products just to make sure I don't bloat.
    • Posts: 955 Member
      LOL <<all caps
    • Posts: 8,218 Member
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      About 2 weeks ago, my cousin and I decided to do a Vegan week!! Nothing with eyes, for 1 week just to try jump start our weight loss. My stomach wasn't flat to start with (I had a lil pooch ) but I now have a POUCH!!! What the hell is going on? Is it something in that meatless meat I don't know about?

      Why would that jump start weight loss?
    • Posts: 1,842 Member
      Just because you were eating vegan doesn't automatically assume you are in a calorie deficit.

      Weight loss doesn't need to be jumpstarted - you're not a car lol :flowerforyou:

      Set a deficit, eat that, shake your booty and only cut out meat if you don't like it
    • Posts: 262 Member
      Were you eating a lot of broccoli? Broccoli makes me bloated.
    • Posts: 4,323 Member
      :noway: :noway:

      About 2 weeks ago, my cousin and I decided to do a Vegan week!! Nothing with eyes, for 1 week just to try jump start our weight loss.

      you know cutting out meat doesnt make you vegan, right?
    • Posts: 1,067 Member
      :noway: :noway:

      About 2 weeks ago, my cousin and I decided to do a Vegan week!! Nothing with eyes,

      So no potatoes then?
    • Posts: 1,164 Member
      Going vegan will not necessarily jump start your weight loss. Change in weight is primarily dictated by calories in/out.

      This. /end thread
    • Posts: 228 Member
      Eating vegan (nothing with eyes) doesn't necessarily jump start weight loss. You can eat entire bags of Doritos and scads of pasta without encountering a single eyeball but I guarantee you won't lose weight if you don't have a caloric deficit in whatever food you choose to eat.
    • Posts: 262 Member
      Maybe you should add back in some fish? It still counts if it doesn't have eyes:

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    • Posts: 5,044 Member
      Is it gas?
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      Whether you eat meat or not is pretty irrelevant to losing weight. If you want to go vegan, that's cool and all...but you should have better reasons for doing it.

      Most likely you are bloated from carb intake and fiber from fruits and veg.
    • Posts: 5,304 Member
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      you know cutting out meat doesnt make you vegan, right?

      This.

      Vegan is more than just not eating things with eyes.

      As others have said, going vegan for a week won't jumpstart any weight loss. There are fat vegans.
    • Posts: 122 Member
      Well silly me...I thought that cutting out meat would help the weight loss!! Now I know better lol....thanks for the input, the good and the bad. Someone actually told me that cutting out the meat would help me detox, but I'm eating at a deficit again, I just didn't understand why my stomach grew a whole inch in 5 days. Yes I know "Vegan" is more than just eating anything with eyes..I figured you would get the point without me writing a whole essay...sheesh!!! But thanks guys.
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