New, looking for vegan meal plan tips to lose weight!

Cauliflower is a miracle food. I’m not vegan (I’m vegetarian) but we eat vegan a lot of the time and cauliflower is the base of a lot of our dishes. eg last weekend I made a huge curry. Vegetables, curry paste then I boiled 2 heads of cauliflower and blended them with a little water and some coconut milk. Added that to all the veggies and curry paste and I had a creamy curry that came out just under 0.5 calories per Delicious!

Ate it a few meals this week and froze the rest for future meals.

Also. Not particularly satiating but totally delicious. Freeze bananas. Blend them with a dash of non dairy milk and some vanilla. Makes ice cream that I much prefer over dairy ice cream.

Satiation is very individual. Most people are satiated by one or a combination of:

* Getting enough protein (treat your MFP goal as a minimum)
* Getting enough fats (treat your MFP goal as a minimum)
* Avoiding calorie-dense but low-nutrition foods (many of these are so-called "processed" or "junk" foods, but not all (and I think those terms for food are unhelpful, personally))
* High fiber, low calorie foods eaten in volume (such as non-starchy veggies)
* Other foods eaten in volume (for an example, search "Protein Fluff" in the forums, or there's a whole thread in the Food & Nutrition section for volume eaters).

Some people find very specific foods especially satiating, too, but those vary. Some common ones are whole potatoes (like baked potato) and oatmeal.

Experiment, and you'll figure out what's satiating for you.

Another variable you can experiment with is eating timing. It doesn't affect weight loss (at constant calories) but can affect satiation or energy level. People here do everything from one giant meal a day to all-day small-amount grazing, and all points in between. Some do different eating schedules on different days. A common one is 5 days at maintenance calories, 2 (non-consecutive) days at about 500 calories (so a near fast). That's usually described as "5:2 Fasting". Timing is also individual, in terms of what works best. So, experiment.

Me, I was a thin vegetarian, then an overweight one, then obese (for around 30 years), and now thin again (for about the last 5 years). What one eats isn't really important for weight management (though it is very important for energy, health, satiation, etc.). What's important for weight management is how much one eats, as measured in calories.

For meal planning, there are two sort of extremes: Structured, prescriptive meal plans, and "figure it out by experiment" plans.

If you want a prescriptive plan, get a calorie from MFP, then one option is to pick the vegan option at https://www.eatthismuch.com/ . It will give you a detailed meal plan that you can tweak in various ways. That can also be a source for meal ideas.

If you want to gradually remodel your eating based on your individual tastes and preferences, you can consider the plan I used to lose around 50 pounds back in 2015, and stay at a healthy weight for nearly 5 years since (I'm now 5'5", about 130 pounds). That "figure it out by experiment" style plan is described in detail here:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

It talks about how to start out eating however you are now, then gradually making changes to hit calorie goals, improve nutrition, etc.

I'm not vegan. I've been ovo-lacto vegetarian for 45+ years. Eating style is a personal choice, but sound nutrition and weight management follow pretty much the same rules and processes, no matter the eating style.

Best wishes!