Whole Food Plant Based

I'm an often highly processed, plant based dieter, can't really help... but good luck.

I've been a vegan and WFPB for almost 3 years now. I lost weight on it initially without exercising. More importantly, the diet (plus specific herbs/supplements) also helped me get over chronic Epstein Barr virus that I had had for 10 years! I feel great!

Today I logged onto Fitness Pal for the first time in a long time so that I can keep track of my calories and exercising. I need to shed 25 more lbs and get stronger. I turned 60 on April 10th and feel the pressure of needing to do this now!! I want to get strong enough so that I feel comfortable rollerblading this summer. I used to LOVE to rollerblade.

janejellyroll wrote: »

JanetYellen wrote: »

I did it once for a day.
No chocolate on this diet - forget that.

Why couldn't someone have some chocolate while eating WFPB?

As far as I know, WFPB is eating things that are unaltered, at least unaltered before you cook them. So eating chocolate wouldn't fit since it's a processed food. If you weren't strict you could, but someone who eats exclusively WFPB probably wouldn't eat it.

There's raw chocolate bars made with like 98.7% raw cacao, raw coconut butter, pink salt crystals, and like some turmeric to give it that fiery, artisanal flare.

judydelo1 wrote: »

I've been a vegan and WFPB for almost 3 years now. I lost weight on it initially without exercising. More importantly, the diet (plus specific herbs/supplements) also helped me get over chronic Epstein Barr virus that I had had for 10 years! I feel great!

Today I logged onto Fitness Pal for the first time in a long time so that I can keep track of my calories and exercising. I need to shed 25 more lbs and get stronger. I turned 60 on April 10th and feel the pressure of needing to do this now!! I want to get strong enough so that I feel comfortable rollerblading this summer.

My daughter has chronic EBV and NON Hodgkin's lymphoma I would love to know what you did to cure it???

Tried this for 3 weeks Feb/March, felt tired and irritable all the time, quit. I did my best to make sure I had good nutrition with no processed food. I don't know why I felt so miserable.

I'm a 90% WFPB vegan. Just started a couple of months ago, and I'm loving it so far. I feel amazing, and it's easy to feel full on all the veggies and legumes I've read books by many of the authors you cited. Feel free to add me as a friend as well

I eat WFPB most of the time. I transitioned from no-meat, no-full fat dairy about a year ago.

Me! Me! I'm a whole food Plant Based person, High Carb, struggling with the low fat side of it, (avocados, just gotta eat them). For a year now. Of course, sometimes one can't get a whole food, while traveling, or what not, but I adapt. I have been primarily laco-ovu-vegetarian my whole life, with a few rare exceptions. For example the high meat diet the doctor put me on, and I managed on it for a year, with a good weight loss, before revolting and deciding to turn to WFPB eating. (From eating all the meat my pain levels increased, I could barely walk at this point in my life).

My doctor didn't want me to to switch to WFPB diet. But, I did. I pointed out to him that he just complained about how bad my cholesterol was. So, he shut up about that. As I was walking out, he was calling out all the high protein plant products, "Peas! And Legumes, lentils, beans...remember!" Plus I stopped counting calories. On a follow up with the doctor 4 months later I had a 20 pound loss - and my cholesterol was wonderful. He told me to keep up with whatever it was that I was doing. LOL (he darn well knows).

But, it isn't a magic diet - because I have also had a weight gain with it, gained back about 4 or 5 of those 20 pounds - and I bounce back and forth maintaining a 15 to 30 pound loss since going Plant Based, whole foods. Oh, the 30 pound loss I hit, I ate a small bit of turkey at one daughter's home on thanksgiving, didn't know the mashed potatoes had cream cheese in it and ate a lot of that, and at my other daughter's I couldn't resist a sliver of ham. Got sicker than a dog eating those items. Then went eating out a two weeks later for my birthday at an Indian restaurant with a ton of vegetarian, easily to turn vegan, options. It turned out that there was butter (ghee) in everything and I was sick, (vomiting) 15 minutes after leaving the place. Therefore, between those two episodes I lost 10 pounds of weight till my body bounced back. BTW, the doctor didn't want me that thin. I'm to maintain the last 20 pound loss I achieved going vegan.

I have been WFPB for a year now with great results for pain. Now I just have to get the weight off that I gained while I was trying to get my lupus under control. I was vegetarian before the doctor put me on paleo, which made me sicker and unable to function. In a year I am off all meds but one. I want to be able to get this weight off and avoid knee surgery.

I have eaten a WFPB diet since October 2015 when I went through the CHIP program through Adventist Health. It changed my life. I had been mostly vegetarian (ate some dairy, eggs and little fish) for about 6 months before that, and felt better. But when my husband and I switched to WFPB, it was amazing. Within 2 weeks my chronic inflammation (gut and musculo-skeletal) which I have suffered for 8 years and food cravings which I had since a teen just STOPPED. My pain went from a 8/10 (constant) to a 4/10 but only on my L hip. My energy went through the roof and my mood drastically improved. This may be TMI but my libido which had been pretty much non-existent kick-started and has only increased steadily since. I am 49 folks. This changes were astonishing. Yes, I lost weight without ever measuring my food. Not a lot and not rapidly, but steadily. My weight does go up if I eat processed foods or eat out a few times a week, so I do need to stay true to healthy eating.

Other changes since then: I got a FitBit for Christmas and have gone from about 4000 steps a day to now I usually log between 10,000 and 12,000. I have started exercising at the gym with a trainer or swimming. And for the first time in my life I have the energy to do it and enjoy it. I attribute that to the high levels of nutrition I now get from my food.

I'm glad to meet others trying to life a healthier lifestyle. Feel free to add me on here or FitBit as friends.