one vegetarian meal a day?

hannahdiaz35
hannahdiaz35 Posts: 21 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So I have plateaued with my weight loss and I'm trying to get creative with my meals to help lose weight.

Today, I started eating one vegetarian meal a day. Will this help? I'd like to hear from other people who do this and have input on the matter.

And no, I won't go full vegetarian or vegan. I eat meat and have no plans to stop.

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    I don't see how 1 vegetarian meal will make you lose weight if you've plateaued. Eating vegetarian wont make you lose weight, nor will eating vegan. Weight loss comes from a caloric deficit.
    • Are you using an electric food scale?
    • Are you weighing your foods accurately? i.e. using grams instead of cups
    • How are you obtaining your calorie burns? MFP, HRM or machines?

    Also open your diary so we can see your logging.


  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    WHAT you are eating is irrelevant. How much you are eating is what you need to look at. Are you using a food scale?
  • Bshmerlie
    Bshmerlie Posts: 1,026 Member
    Thats just an attempt to get you to eat less. So why not just eat less?
  • hannahdiaz35
    hannahdiaz35 Posts: 21 Member
    I don't have a food scale. I use measuring cups to measure how much I'm eating
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    Only if it fits into your calorie goal for the day. Vegans have weight problems too. Weight loss only happens when you're in a deficit.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    hannahdiaz35 wrote: »
    I don't have a food scale. I use measuring cups to measure how much I'm eating

    Well there you go. That's why you're not losing weight.

    Buy an electric food scale, weigh your food.

    /thread
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    hannahdiaz35 wrote: »
    I don't have a food scale. I use measuring cups to measure how much I'm eating

    10$ at Walmart. Invest in one, as this is where your problem is. The closer you are to goal, the more accurate this needs to be.
  • hannahdiaz35
    hannahdiaz35 Posts: 21 Member
    I'll see about getting one tomorrow while I'm grocerie shopping. I didn't realise it would make such a difference
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I eat quite a lot of vegetarian meals just cos

    But they only help when counting calories

    Remember fries and pizza are veggie ...
  • zamphir66
    zamphir66 Posts: 582 Member
    I think it's odd (I'm not picking on you personally, I know this is a common mindset) how a meal without meat automatically becomes marked as a "vegetarian" meal. As if meat at every single meal were just the norm, the base requirement of being called a "meal."

    I typically only eat meat once a day and sometimes go a couple days without eating meat at all. But I'm not a vegetarian, nor do I become one just because I had a salad for lunch rather than a steak.

    Meat consumption is so closely tied to national and personal wealth. It's a status symbol. But it's also a grossly inefficient way of feeding the Earth. That's a good argument for thinking about cutting out *some* meat, if even just one meal a day.

    As others have said, what you eat isn't dreadfully important relative to how much you eat.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    edited July 2015
    Oreos are vegetarian. If the meal is a bag of Oreos, it won't help. If it's a bunch of veggies, it might. A lot depends on the rest of your diet and how much exercise you get.
  • kyrannosaurus
    kyrannosaurus Posts: 350 Member
    Since when was it normal to eat meat for every meal?
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    A vegetarian meal is literally just anything without meat or fats from an animal. I can eat pizza, where it is over 300 calories a slice, and call that a vegetarian meal.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,211 Member
    Poutine is vegetarian (caveat on it being instant gravy). Nuff said ;)
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    I can go and have a platter of meatless nachos, and a side of jalepeno poppers and mozzarella sticks, and eat a huge piece of cherry cheesecake, and have that be a vegetarian meal. Just saying!
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    To lose weight , you need a calorie deficit.
    To make sure that you are eating at a deficit, you'll need a food scale. Weigh everything you consume , log it accurate here on mfp.

    I could eat 3 vegetarian meals a day and still gain weight . surplus - weight gain.
    So eating vegetarian won't help you lose weight.
    Its going to come down to cico.
  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    I am one of those "meat with every meal" people. Not sure what your diary looks like, but meat is usually one of my lower cal foods...

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