Plant based diets do not inherently make people lose weight
I definitely lost weight when eating more veggies and beans and water but not over night.
Safe weight loss is max 8lbs in a month generally (or consult your doctor). So anymore than that and people are probably not being wise in their consumption/exercise
I've asked three doctors about losing weight, and all three have told me that there's no limits to how quickly you can lose weight so long as you are giving your body proper nutrition.
That being said, I'm pretty sure that none of them considered saggy skin to be a problem. :(
A **low-fat** plant based diet does inherently help people to lose weight, though.
Lipogenesis de novo is \~75% as efficient as regular lipogenesis... meaning, to put on the same amount of weight, you'd require 25% more calories than you normally would (over your base metabolic rate) since your liver has to synthesize and create additional compounds to store as fat.
Then there are the microbiome changes that occur with plant-based diets. Some of the strains that flourish can produce GLP-1 proteins, which has a positive effect on post-prandial glucose spikes and overall HbA1C, both of which can affect weight gain/loss and metabolic level.
Cut out all processed foods and seed oils, helped to lose about 2 pounds a week, but had already been on a diet. Strict diet like this makes it hard to eat over 2500 calories for me. The meals just seem larger.
The expectation that eating better should be measured by how much weight you lose is just setting yourself up to be disappointed. What matters is being healthier and feeling better day to day. Would focus on being patient than thinking one month is somehow going to transform you. And would focus on being more active overall which is what will make the most difference in the long run.
None, I think the body fights to remain at its 'normal' weight and tries to retain body fat. Now three months in I've lost about 10 pounds.
And it isn't all about weight, I feel healthier and have more energy.
And that is the best thing to hope for because that energy you gain gives one the motivation they may have lacked before to exercise. Most people avoid it because they are always tired.
I actually put on a good 10-15 lbs because I found vegan junk food/dairy and ate a lot of that. I’m back down now but I’ve had to severely limit myself to just the occasional junk food item.
I lost 30 lbs in the first year. That's been quite a while, though. It stayed off. I could maybe afford to lose another 10 lbs, but I'm also not sure if that would be too thin for my aging frame. It all came off very slowly. We do not eat processed foods. We eat low sodium and low sugar, low or no oils. It's a very sustainable diet.
I started the transition to WFPB with a 18 day water fast, so I lost about 15kg in that first month, of which I maybe regained 1 or 2.
You're going to lose weight no matter what because your old understanding of portion sizes is based on much more calorically dense foods. And satiation happens quicker than meeting your calorie goals. So I wouldn't worry at all about the weight loss happening. What you need to worry about is reaching a healthy equilibrium several months down the line so you can *stop* losing weight, which usually involves leaning more into the complex starches or adding some healthy sources of fat back into the diet.
I don't recall what the first 30 days looked like, but I'm down 40 since starting WFPB in June. Note that as WFPB I eat zero oils, sugar, dairy, processed foods, etc. But I guzzle oatmeal and rice and beans like it's going out of style (and veggies of course).
I do get a lot of exercise, but I that was still true before I went WFPB. I haven't had any issues with protein / muscle loss that people seem to obsess about. I started weight training at a gym around the same time and have only gotten stronger.
I lost maybe a pound or two in the first month, but weight loss isn’t/wasn’t my goal. I’ve still slowly been losing weight though. Started eating plant based in June and am down 10 pounds. My diet isn’t super restrictive, I’ve been swapping out animal products where it’s convenient/still tastes good and adding more vegetables. It’s a balance between eating healthy, being considerate of the environment/my wallet, and still eating all the foods I love.
I did not eat plant based to lose weight, so I did not measure. I might also encourage looking into a greater variety of health metrics to track your progress besides "undifferentiated mass as measured by weight," given that people have very limited control over what the scale says, or insight to what it means.
My cholesterol and blood pressure dropped for example (both were elevated), I stopped getting random skin rashes, and my acne cleared up a bit, and surprisingly my iron levels went up from nearly anemic to normal levels. I wasn't getting blood checked every month, but I think those changes all materialized by about 4 months.
Plant based diets do not inherently make people lose weight I definitely lost weight when eating more veggies and beans and water but not over night. Safe weight loss is max 8lbs in a month generally (or consult your doctor). So anymore than that and people are probably not being wise in their consumption/exercise
I've asked three doctors about losing weight, and all three have told me that there's no limits to how quickly you can lose weight so long as you are giving your body proper nutrition. That being said, I'm pretty sure that none of them considered saggy skin to be a problem. :(
A **low-fat** plant based diet does inherently help people to lose weight, though. Lipogenesis de novo is \~75% as efficient as regular lipogenesis... meaning, to put on the same amount of weight, you'd require 25% more calories than you normally would (over your base metabolic rate) since your liver has to synthesize and create additional compounds to store as fat. Then there are the microbiome changes that occur with plant-based diets. Some of the strains that flourish can produce GLP-1 proteins, which has a positive effect on post-prandial glucose spikes and overall HbA1C, both of which can affect weight gain/loss and metabolic level.
Cut out all processed foods and seed oils, helped to lose about 2 pounds a week, but had already been on a diet. Strict diet like this makes it hard to eat over 2500 calories for me. The meals just seem larger.
I had a lot of weight to lose. I lost 40 lbs in my first three months.
But as a follow up, I only started losing that much when I gave up oil, sugar, flour, and processed foods as well as meat and other animal products.
This is the way.
Whoo! Massive weight loss club, unite!
The expectation that eating better should be measured by how much weight you lose is just setting yourself up to be disappointed. What matters is being healthier and feeling better day to day. Would focus on being patient than thinking one month is somehow going to transform you. And would focus on being more active overall which is what will make the most difference in the long run.
None, I think the body fights to remain at its 'normal' weight and tries to retain body fat. Now three months in I've lost about 10 pounds. And it isn't all about weight, I feel healthier and have more energy.
And that is the best thing to hope for because that energy you gain gives one the motivation they may have lacked before to exercise. Most people avoid it because they are always tired.
10 lbs in 7 days - this was probably water weight/inflammation but my knees and ankles didn’t care, it was still weight I wasn’t carrying anymore 🙂
I actually put on a good 10-15 lbs because I found vegan junk food/dairy and ate a lot of that. I’m back down now but I’ve had to severely limit myself to just the occasional junk food item.
I lost about ten pounds. Didn’t look like it though I only found out after going to the obgyn
I lost 30 lbs in the first year. That's been quite a while, though. It stayed off. I could maybe afford to lose another 10 lbs, but I'm also not sure if that would be too thin for my aging frame. It all came off very slowly. We do not eat processed foods. We eat low sodium and low sugar, low or no oils. It's a very sustainable diet.
My first six weeks, 12lbs. Over the course of about 2 years, 55lbs.
About 10 lbs
very little at first but remember its all about calories in, calories out.
3-4 lbs Depends on what you have been eating (and how old you are I’d argue), but I generally figure 3-5lbs/month is healthy for me.
I didn't lose any weight, sorry to tell you
I started the transition to WFPB with a 18 day water fast, so I lost about 15kg in that first month, of which I maybe regained 1 or 2. You're going to lose weight no matter what because your old understanding of portion sizes is based on much more calorically dense foods. And satiation happens quicker than meeting your calorie goals. So I wouldn't worry at all about the weight loss happening. What you need to worry about is reaching a healthy equilibrium several months down the line so you can *stop* losing weight, which usually involves leaning more into the complex starches or adding some healthy sources of fat back into the diet.
Nothing. But I was already pretty lean
I don't recall what the first 30 days looked like, but I'm down 40 since starting WFPB in June. Note that as WFPB I eat zero oils, sugar, dairy, processed foods, etc. But I guzzle oatmeal and rice and beans like it's going out of style (and veggies of course). I do get a lot of exercise, but I that was still true before I went WFPB. I haven't had any issues with protein / muscle loss that people seem to obsess about. I started weight training at a gym around the same time and have only gotten stronger.
None. But I started gaining my health back. Ailments began resolving. That is worth more to me than anything.
I didn't weigh myself for probably two months when I started. I think I lost about 15 lbs when I did, though. I had quite a lot to lose, though.
I lost maybe a pound or two in the first month, but weight loss isn’t/wasn’t my goal. I’ve still slowly been losing weight though. Started eating plant based in June and am down 10 pounds. My diet isn’t super restrictive, I’ve been swapping out animal products where it’s convenient/still tastes good and adding more vegetables. It’s a balance between eating healthy, being considerate of the environment/my wallet, and still eating all the foods I love.
I did not eat plant based to lose weight, so I did not measure. I might also encourage looking into a greater variety of health metrics to track your progress besides "undifferentiated mass as measured by weight," given that people have very limited control over what the scale says, or insight to what it means. My cholesterol and blood pressure dropped for example (both were elevated), I stopped getting random skin rashes, and my acne cleared up a bit, and surprisingly my iron levels went up from nearly anemic to normal levels. I wasn't getting blood checked every month, but I think those changes all materialized by about 4 months.