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Love doing this. Sometimes I will order a soup or side salad as my starter.

Just avoid anything canned, packaged, frozen. If you prepare fresh whole foods, you control the sodium level. What foods do you normally eat?

As long as you are getting in protein and fats, I wouldn't worry. Look at the percentages instead of the grams.

I get it. I actually have to say things aren't healthy in order to get people to try them sometimes. Which is hilarious. Because as mentioned above, healthy is all relative!

I eat almost entirely vegan. Sometimes I slip, but I am not perfect. I eat vegan because my body breaks down non-animal food easier. Since switching, I have seen all sort of turnarounds like a total drop in cholesterol and the weight comes off faster. Someone mentioned above that protein is in everything. I try to include…

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How many veggies are you eating? On a reduced calories diet, make sure you are including lots of bulk. Also, are you including complex carbs and healthy fats? Combining these with the protein will help keep you satiated longer.

Try pairing things with higher protein grains. Those grains will help keep you satiated longer and will add protein. Think things like quinoa, steel cut oats, and wild rice. Maybe also some lentils and beans.

At Whole Foods I know you can buy individual packets of lots of different protein powders.

Garden of Life RAW protein powder (supplement on low-protein days) Quinoa Wild Rice Beans Nuts Seitan Tofu Tempeh Nutritional Yeast Non-Dairy Milk (lower protein milks, I blend in the powder)

I add Garden of Life RAW protein powder to things. It's GF, vegan, and soy-free.

You may not be vegan but there are tons of fabulous recipes out there that I know my meat eating friends love that have no dairy.

Check out the blogs: Poor Girl Eats Well Dianasaur Dishes Uncovering Food all of these blogs address these issues.

California is my home base.

I avoid focusing only on products that can afford to get certified as organic and instead look to being a locavore, consuming products that are produced and grown locally. Many of your local farmers can't afford to certify as organic but can tell you exactly how they farm things. And you reduce the emissions from the…

Your body can't breakdown whole flaxseeds according to everything I have read and that's why people eat them ground up. To maintain the nutrients, since they fade once they are ground, I am told you should buy whole seeds and grind them yourself. I actually use flaxmeal in place of eggs when baking and to get in essential…

Processed foods hurt less because your body doesn't have to process them the same way. Try cooking your fruits and vegetables. By doing that you are breaking down the product and in your own way, processing it while controlling how it's processed.

Here is part of the post I put up yesterday that you might find useful: Some books I would recommend: Breaking the Food Seduction The Kind Diet 30-Day Vegan Challenge There are also a ton of excellent vegan cookbooks. If you are looking to lose weight while eating vegan, Appetite for Reduction is my most favorite cookbook…

I posted yesterday in another thread someone started about going vegan. I eat mostly vegan (supposed to eat entirely vegan for medical reasons but I slip sometimes). I also fell asleep during the forks over knives premiere. But I am sure it was good and I was just tired.

I eat an almost entirely vegan diet. I do it for health and digestive reasons although cutting down on the amount of land used to grow food to feed animals we eat is an added benefit. I am an adventurous eater so when doctors said the pain I had on a near daily basis was likely from inability to digest animal protein…

If the OP is just trying to lower the overall amount of carbs (which I TOTALLY understand as a vegan... love me some carbs) then some of my breakfast suggestions include: Don't eat breakfast foods ;o) (no seriously it's the easiest way and most filling for me) Tofu scramble with veggies Oatmeal with protein powder mied in…

Brown rice bowl with beans, veggies, kraut, tofu (change it up) Oatmeal with protein powder mixed in