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You all have convinced me to do my own study on myself.

I lost about 22 pounds from October to December last year, but then I went on vacation for New Years. I gained a little over vacation, and since then I've been eating pretty much whatever I wanted. My anniversary is June 12th and I would like to be my at goal weight by then! Right now I'm at 18 pounds lost and my goal is…

Some websites that might help you: http://www.forksoverknives.com/frank-medrano-powered-by-plants/ http://vegancalisthen-x.com/ Frank Medrano is a vegan body builder. The first link kinda talks about him, and the second link is his website. I just kind of browsed the websites - hope they help!

I want in on this. I've been trying out a plant based diet for the past few months and haven't really had trouble with getting enough protein for me - however I'm not a body builder. So far I've had issues with Calcium and Iron. Anyway, I'm interested to see where this leads.

Unfortunately, in order to lose weight and keep it off you are going to have to incorporate some life changes. It's unrealistic to expect different results from the same routine. I often wonder what "fussy eaters" would have done back in the day when all these different food options weren't available to us. Die of…

I would say start with buying a juicer and look up some recipes. Try looking on amazon.com at some and read their reviews. I know that a lot of juicers come with recipe books as well, but you could google "juicing recipes" and find some pretty good ones. I will say they aren't cheap, but I bet you could get a pretty decent…

Exactly what I was thinking! a 5k isn't easy to work up to! I will be taking the advise you quoted as well. I have been running for a little over two months and was wondering what I should do next.

This happens to me, too! Or it used to. Not so much now that I'm a little further into my weight loss. I kept weighing myself every morning, but I started recording every day's weight into MFP. After about 3 weeks or so I felt a lot better about the jumps following the all time lows, because the all time lows were steadily…

Thanks for sharing your experience! I'll keep this in mind when I'm about to transition to maintenance.

I'm 5 feet 5 inches and I was 157.8 when I started trying to lose weight 71 days ago. During that time I started doing 20 to 30 minutes of cardio every day and then about 30 days in I drastically changed my diet to Plant Based. I worked hard every day, and I didn't eat over my calories except for on Thanksgiving and on my…

I'm still about 13 pounds from my goal. I don't plan on doing a maintenance thing during the holidays, though. I've been steadily losing for a few months so I want to power through! I've thought about maintenance and how I plan on maintaining my new weight once I'm there, but I never thought about the transition from…

Personally - I'm Plant Based (which is like vegan, but focuses on whole plant foods for health reasons) and I made the switch pretty easily. I don't have any issues with gluten though. I only do about 20 - 30 minutes of cardio a day with a work out about once a week. I eat about 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day. I'm…

I'm debating whether to post in this or not, because my diet is so much different than yours. But you called it "Share your diet plan" not "Share your diet plan if it's similar to mine only" - ha. So here goes! I try to follow the plant based diet. I chose this diet after watching the documentary Forks over Knives and…

What kind of exercising do you do? Cardio, strength training, both? I'm really good with my cardio, but terrible with working out/strength training. I'm almost at the point where I'm losing "vanity" pounds, too. From the research I've read so far it's a lot easier to lose weight if you incorporate strength training on top…

"Thanks this made the most sense to me. I am sorry I didn't know there weren't food without calories. I feel kinda stupid not knowing that but I thought some foods didn't. Anyways thanks for your feedback." You shouldn't feel stupid for not knowing something! You had questions and you sought out answers. That's how anyone…

Oh my goodness. I'm gong to copy your last paragraph, save it, and add it to the bottom of every single one of my posts.

Welcome to MFP! It's my favorite tool as well! My mom is about your age with diabetes. You actually remind me of her quite a bit - except I wish she would make her own health more of a priority like you seem to be doing. I hope you're able to reach your goals!

I have lost 17 pounds and I noticed when shopping that instead of buying more medium to large sizes I'm buying more small to medium sizes. It's not really a "I was size 10 but now I'm size 8" type thing - because all clothing companies size things differently. It's more like "I was buying this range of sizes but now that…

I don't think that plant based is the only way. I haven't said that once - I don't even feel that I've implied it. It has nothing to do with cleansing or this feed at all. I just mentioned I follow it and get enough protein and fat from it. I am biased towards it because it works for me. But before I chose it I researched…

You were being polite I guess, but kind of a polite douchy know it all, which is why I got mad. I'll do my own research instead of just taking your word for truth. I'm not some naive person who's had the wool pulled over my eyes by evil juicing scammers - which you seem to think I am. Fat sick and nearly dead doesn't…

My stance isn't about being meatless at all, my stance is that juicing is a viable choice for a cleanse, and it is possible to get all the nutrients one needs from it. It IS true that you have to plan your diet (I'm using diet as in what a person habitually eats, not as in restriction of foods to lose weight) out to make…

Honestly you can probably do with out a lot of fat for a week or two, but there are fruits and veggies that have it if you're worried about it. Veggies have protein - lots of it. I try to follow plant based, and the one thing I haven't had a problem with is getting enough protein. If you're going to do a juice cleanse it…

I just try to stick with no added sugar/sweetner - except for some honey in my oatmeal or something like that. Read labels and see if there is sugar added to things like your favorite bread or pasta sauce or even salsa. I switched my regular foods to brands that don't add sugar (to me it's weird to have sugar in pasta…

I went through the same thing... for weeks! I would track my food and keep up my exercising, but my weight still fluctuated by one or two pounds. I got so tired of stepping on the scale one day and being down a pound and a half, just to "gain it back" over the next three days or so. EDIT: I got really discouraged and…

Thanks for your take on the plant based diet. I do kind of like clean eating. I don't think there is anything wrong with it personally. But I don't go to the extreme that most clean eaters do either. We are kind of saying the same thing I guess. The website I gave promotes getting all your nutrients from juice for awhile,…

Actually, the film explains you get more nutrients from juicing than from just eating fruits and veggies. You end up drinking the equivalent of way more fruits and veggies than you would be able to eat at one sitting. Really it's not SUPER expensive. The film also touches on that subject - giving daily and weekly prices on…

Go to the website. Check it out. Then quote me. Studied nutrition where? I'm just curious because I'm interested in studying nutrition - especially on plant based diet. Have you ever studied it? What's your take on it if so?

I guess they are. It just seemed like they weren't really offering any information, just kind of poking fun. Maybe what troll means to me is different than the actual definition.

I just wanted to offer her a website that may be helpful to her - and has been helpful to others. Obviously I should have left the trolls thing out. Cleanses aren't usually something the body needs - and the website I offered (which I'm assuming you didn't check our before you quoted me) isn't really about cleansing. It's…

I just wanted to offer her a website that may be helpful to her - and has been helpful to others. Obviously I should have left the trolls thing out. Cleanses aren't usually something the body needs - and the website I offered (which I'm assuming you didn't check our before you quoted me) isn't really about cleansing. It's…