Vegan, looking for exercise and food ideas

I Ike the Eat to Live philosophy of getting the most nutrition per calorie. It’s a large volume low cal plant based/ vegan diet. I will use a little shredded cheese sometimes, and I pretty much eat how I want (within reason) if I eat out, or I’m at a friend’s house. I’ll go ahead and have a burger, if someone made it for me. I just don’t bring that stuff home.

I eat mostly plant-based, but like any dietary habit it's just as easy to put on weight as any other dietary habit. I find that if I overdo it with the nuts/nut butters/seed butters/fatty foods, and underdo it with fiber and protein from whole grains/legumes/other sources, I have a harder time sticking to my calorie goals and am hungry more often. The reverse might be true for you. The important thing is to log accurately and find eating patterns that enable you to better stick to your goals. Veganism itself does not = fat loss, and actually fat shaming in the vegan community is a pretty big problem. Look up Edyn Jacks, "The Fat Vegan", on youtube; she's awesome, and I recommend her to anyone who thinks veganism has to be a monolithic thinness-obsessed community. She also has some good recipes on there. That being said there are also many vegans on youtube who talk about what they eat for weight loss; be mindful of the woo woo but there are some good resources. I like Pick Up Limes, Cheap Lazy Vegan, Sarah's Vegan Kitchen, Viet Vegan, More Salt Please... chock full of recipe ideas and even some fitness ideas. SoTrueQ has decent videos but they're more applicable to men.

As for exercise: whatever you enjoy! But also many/most weight loss resources recommend incorporating some kind of resistance training into your regimen for the sake of maintaining/building lean body mass, for women as well as for men; it keeps your BMR a bit higher and is good for longterm health; and it can help mentally and physically when your weight loss plateaus.