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Why Vegetarians Cannot Lose Weight - Tips to Overcome

If you consume high calorie food minus off the meat, the unexpended excess calories will still be stored as body fat. In other words, vegetarian diet does not guarantee weight loss. It’s still bound by the “calorie in – calorie out” rule.

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Upon knowing that vegetarian diet can’t necessarily help lose weight, some people turn back to their meat diet. Imagine a high-cal, toxin-laden meat diet, that’s even worse. You can still stick to your vegetarian diet, but ridding the unhealthy portions. Here’s how.

Tip #1 – Eat Whole Food

Over all these years, your taste buds have been used to the texture and flavor of processed food which typically contain high sugar, sodium and fat. So if you were to switch to eating whole natural food out of the blue, your taste buds may not be able to accept it. This may affect you psychologically and make you cringe at the thought of eating them.

Having said that, you need to transition gradually – allow sufficient time for your taste buds to accept whole vegetarian food by perhaps, taking one portion of fruits and veggies for the first week, then increase to 2 portions in the second week and so forth, until whole natural food becomes the staple of your diet. Grains, nuts and seeds and other whole foods are as important.

Tip #2 – Stay Active

Move it! The more you move, the easier it is for you to lose weight. But do not overexert yourself. If you get hurt and need to stop any physical activity, you may easily input more calories if you let loose on your diet.

Therefore, exercise caution during your workout bout or any strenuous physical activities. Be sure to go easy on your body especially if you’ve not been exercising for quite some time, then slowly up the intensity level as your body becomes seasoned. Preventing injury allows you to keep yourself active at all times so that your body can keep burning fat like a furnace.

Tip #3 – Plan Ahead

It’s never enough to just do more exercises and eat more whole vegetarian food. True, you’ll lose weight with doing both, but you won’t lose weight as effective as compared to having a plan.

If you wanna do a harder workout regime, go for it. Don’t let worries about too-few-calories hold you back — there’s a pretty simple solution: 1) eat more frequently, 2) eat more protein-based (and complex carbs), caloric-dense foods.

Eating 5 smaller, fist-sized meals throughout the day (if you can afford break time during work for eating as such) helps to keep the body full and the energy levels high — especially when low-calorie-consumption is a concern.

Secondly, you want to eat a lot of dense foods, like additional proteins & complex carbs. Because you’re constantly on your feet at work, complex carbs can be great for you — they burn fast, are typically fiber rich, and work most efficiently when consumed right before/during continual hard work. So: while on the job, eat your carbs. Some examples are: whole grains (the darker the bread, the better), legumes (almonds, black beans, peas), sweet potato, cucumbers, celery, broccoli, cauliflower.

When at home, focus on your proteins. These will help in the long term to build muscle endurance; they work most efficiently post-workout, so — at night; and they are typically some of the most caloric-dense foods out there. Some examples are: quinoa, meats (ordered from highest to lowest protein content: beef, poultry, fish, pork), dairy products (Greek yogurt especially), beans, nuts.

Other caloric-dense, healthy foods include: avocado, peanut butter, bananas, granola, corn.

Incorporate a lot of these types of foods into your meals, and you should have no problem sustaining a healthy caloric balance.

If, while preparing your meals, you want to make sure you’re getting enough calories: you can count calories per food item at loseit.com or myfitnesspal.com.

For counting food calories (intake), I would suggest loseit.