Need to get back on vegan + low calorie again. Advice welcome! Help! Disaster!

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  • 20yearsyounger
    20yearsyounger Posts: 1,630 Member
    Happy New Year
  • dviolin661
    dviolin661 Posts: 5 Member
    edited December 2015
    I'm vegetarian, not vegan but I can help you. Replace rice with pasta (tomato sauce and ground soy). My boyfriend eats it like it's going out of style and he's 5'7" and 146 pounds. He doesn't eat rice that often, he says the same thing about hunger spikes.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    edited December 2015
    I am on a mostly vegan diet for medical reasons. So, my diet is more specific than most people would need due to extreme food intolerance (medically induced by being wrongly prescribed meds). I also need to keep my insulin low which I find challenging on a vegan diet because of high carbs. I am the opposite. I need to gain, not lose. I eat around 2000 calories a day. I don't eat oil. But I do eat nuts and seeds, vegetables, some fruit in moderation, coconut milk, quinoa (you could try that to replace the rice), chickpeas (that's my protein source). I can't take B12 supplements and I can't eat animal products or eggs. So, I am experimenting with eating one omega 3 egg yolk a day to minimize reaction (it's mainly the egg white I react to) and for the B12. Joel Fuhrman has pretty good vegan info. Edit to add: If you are vegan, you should eat ground flax seed. It has ALA omega 3 fatty acids. Some people's bodies can convert that.
  • douglerner
    douglerner Posts: 237 Member
    dviolin661 wrote: »
    I'm vegetarian, not vegan but I can help you. Replace rice with pasta (tomato sauce and ground soy). My boyfriend eats it like it's going out of style and he's 5'7" and 146 pounds. He doesn't eat rice that often, he says the same thing about hunger spikes.

    I might try some more pasta. I can make my own tomato sauce from a can of crushed tomatoes and spices boiled down to make it thicker. I'll give it a try! It would be nice to find whole wheat pasta, but they don't have that in my neighborhood.

    Anyway, it's the morning of January 1st here. A new year. A new beginning. I'm looking forward instead of backward!

    Thanks!

    doug

  • douglerner
    douglerner Posts: 237 Member
    Thanks for the suggestions, BinaryPulsar! And for the happy new year messages too! Let's all make 2016 work for us!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    douglerner wrote: »
    Thanks for the suggestions, BinaryPulsar! And for the happy new year messages too! Let's all make 2016 work for us!

    Yeah! Happy New Year! I also get good info from Nutrition Facts (Michael Greger). Beans help lower insulin if you have diabetes.
  • jb_2011
    jb_2011 Posts: 1,029 Member
    Happy New Year! Be happy, be strong, be diligent. My resolutions! :)
  • meridonherron
    meridonherron Posts: 4 Member
    Happy new year! I'm vegan, been vegan since April, been vegetarian many years. Since becoming vegan i've actually put on a lot of weight, which is the opposite I thought it would do! I think Soya and Meat replacements have been a big part of it. So i've decided to cut most of that out and replace with beans and pulses, and lots of fruit and veg. Feel free to add me! I have been on MFP about 5 years but never used it properly, so decided to make a new one for the new year and i'm determined to actually lose all this weight, so i'm looking for friends to help eachother out!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    I have trouble keeping weight on since becoming vegan. I do eat all whole foods, not processed (except silk unsweetened coconut milk).
  • douglerner
    douglerner Posts: 237 Member
    Well, I think the important thing is to remember that no matter what kinds of food you eat, most of us absolutely must track and limit net calories (what we eat minus exercise).

    Unfortunately there is no way around that.

    Anyway, I had a good January 1 (it's now January 2 here) and was vegan + no oil all day and dropped 2 lb, which is an encouraging start of the day.

    I found some nice packages of microwave rice + barley mix at the supermarket. Just 160 calories for 150 g, which is about 70 calories less than the same amount of just rice. It was filling and made a nice, satisfying "bedding" for some vegetables for dinner.

    I even had bananas.

    And plain popcorn. I'm thinking of getting an air popper. Sometimes it comes out fine in the pan with no oil added, but sometimes a lot of kernels are left unpopped. With oil they all get popped. Maybe a popping machine will work better.

    Anyway, sticking with this for now. On to January 2nd!

    doug
  • douglerner
    douglerner Posts: 237 Member

    My healthy diet shopping cart!

    The packages of rice are a rice/barley blend and are about 30% less calories than regular rice.

    It's a vegan, nonoil basket of food.

    So far so good for 2016!

    https://goo.gl/photos/Cn3iGfqV8hsuAQjf6

  • robingmurphy
    robingmurphy Posts: 349 Member
    douglerner wrote: »
    Well, after two very good days I had two very bad days. :(
    Bananas and pumpkin seem particularly bad. All fruits seem bad.
    doug

    Doug, have you considered whether you have an issue with fructose? It's the problem for a lot of people with gastrointestinal issues.

    Check out the FODMAP diet approach: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/content/dam/SHC/for-patients-component/programs-services/clinical-nutrition-services/docs/pdf-lowfodmapdiet.pdf

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP
  • douglerner
    douglerner Posts: 237 Member
    I'm stopping vegan for now and concentrating on an alternate, healthy way of dieting. Anyway, I'm down 2.0 kg (4.4 lb) so far in 2016!
  • 20yearsyounger
    20yearsyounger Posts: 1,630 Member
    douglerner wrote: »
    I'm stopping vegan for now and concentrating on an alternate, healthy way of dieting. Anyway, I'm down 2.0 kg (4.4 lb) so far in 2016!

    That is excellent new Doug - the weight loss that is. Stay focused. You got this

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