Vegetarians success stories?

I've lost 14 lbs. of my 50 lb. weight loss goal, so no pics yet, but I'm a vegetarian. I just track everything here. The biggest thing I've had to change is protein. I started having a protein shake in the mornings to help up my protein values, because even with cheese, they were still really low. My boyfriend does all the cooking, so I enter a lot of recipes as he makes dinner.

I used to be a vegetarian and what is important is not to eat too much cheese. Eat beans like lentils and chick peas instead of diary. Then you should be fine. Keep going!

loseitcav wrote: »

I am a vegetarian who eats diary but no meat or fish. I am currently 5' 4 and 178lbs. I am looking for some motivation to come down to 125lbs with my vegetarian diet. Please post your stories and pics too

I am ovo-lacto-vegetarian, female, 21 when I started and 24 now, started almost from your same height and weight! (5'5 and 183). I have lost around 20 kgs overall (most of it has been lost during the first 1,5 year) and I have become more active. I started going to the university by feet and eating at a deficit, then I gradually included proper workouts such as stationary bike, circuits, aerobic step. My intake has been changing a lot because I have not been dieting all the time during the last 3 years. But I have kept the weight off and I am now trying to lose a few other kgs trying to find out what's the weight I feel most comfortable at! I have also learnt to cook more foods and appreciate foods that I didn't like before. Keeping up my protein intake has been hard so I always recommend you to have yogurts, milk, eggs, legumes and vegetarian substitutes at every meal. Don't let the carbs tempt you, I am a sweet tooth so that's been the hardest part for me, but if I have too many carbs I end up not getting enough protein at the end of the day!

I'm veggie down 11lbd in this pic, main change in diet was adding protein I'm hovering around 100g a day now was 35g on average previously

I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian and have been for 15+ years. I have lost a lot of weight as a vegetarian.. but I also gained it as a vegetarian. The vegetarian diet is not inherently a weight loss diet. It took calorie counting with a food scale for me to drop 72 lbs. My love of vegetables did certainly help, but my portion control was what I needed to fix. Being a vegetarian did not teach me portion control.

Great inspiration! Vegetarian for 12 years, looking to lose weight x