Whole food plant based - need more calories for dinner - any pointers?

At this point it's most likely going to be all about your calorie dense foods... avocado, nuts, oils, etc.

You'll most likely want to add higher fat items since that will most quickly fill your deficit.

How do you know you're not getting enough? You're trying to lose weight, but you don't provide any idea of what you're eating and whether it's actually a calorie deficit. It's hard to make suggestions without knowing what your basic diet looks like.

There are lots of calorie dense whole foods that are plant based. As @BecomingBane suggested the higher fat ones, but also legumes, seeds and grains (beans, quinoa, brown rice, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds). Higher caloric veggies like potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, corn. Higher caloric fruits like bananas, cherries, mangos.

Just eating a plant based diet does not guarantee weight loss, it's all about the caloric deficit. I've know plenty of overweight vegetarians.

RaeBeeBaby wrote: »

How do you know you're not getting enough? You're trying to lose weight, but you don't provide any idea of what you're eating and whether it's actually a calorie deficit. It's hard to make suggestions without knowing what your basic diet looks like.

There are lots of calorie dense whole foods that are plant based. As @BecomingBane suggested the higher fat ones, but also legumes, seeds and grains (beans, quinoa, brown rice, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds). Higher caloric veggies like potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, corn. Higher caloric fruits like bananas, cherries, mangos.

Just eating a plant based diet does not guarantee weight loss, it's all about the caloric deficit. I've know plenty of overweight vegetarians.

All of this. You don't gain weight from not eating enough. You gain from eating more calories than you burn.