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I never enjoyed eating meat ever since I was a child, so a couple years ago I decided to transition to vegan. So far I've cut out beef, pork, dairy milk and eggs but still eat chicken since it's easy
But even with just those cuts, it didn't take long to see positive results in my skin (which is SO much clearer now) and overall mood in general.
I'm new to these forums and was wondering what dietary restrictions to people here prefer and why?
Feel free to detail your experiences, whether that's keto, vegan, carnivorous, etc. I'm curious!
Low carb for 8 weeks, lost 8-10 pounds and am not jonesing for carbs. Was hoping to lose another 5 or 10, but not sure I'll get there without changing something. I'm getting little exercise so hopefully when it warms up and I start serious biking again that will do the trick.
I have to agree with this. There is no "vegan", no "keto", no other "-ism" when it comes to diet or anything else.
There is only one diet, the one that works for the particular individual. Period.
For me that is mostly whole grain carbohydrates - homemade rye and other grains bread, pasta, rice, some potatoes - and lots of vegetables, herbs and spices, nuts, and fruits, little or no processed "food", especially processed sugar, to be avoided like the plague.
I do eat once in a while salmon & scallops, also chicken, even ground beef if other household members, namely children, leave it over and it's sitting in the fridge for several days so as not to waste it (I'm a weirdo, I hate waste). Little or no dairy, including eggs.
In the past, I ate three meals a day, for several years I cut it to twice a day, and lately just once a day.
Everyday I do stretching exercises, and I try to walk at least a mile a day, sometimes two. No need for any special equipment, the body does the body by itself.
I am in the middle of the "normal" range of the BMI index for my weight and height and slowly drifting towards the bottom part of the range.
My motto is, eat as little as possible the highest quality foods possible.
Another trustworthy saying: less is more.
No complaints.
To be sure, today I could die of heart-attack or accident, in a couple of weeks of pneumonia, and maybe in a couple of years of prostate cancer. Who knows?
I never enjoyed eating meat ever since I was a child, so a couple years ago I decided to transition to vegan. So far I've cut out beef, pork, dairy milk and eggs but still eat chicken since it's easy
But even with just those cuts, it didn't take long to see positive results in my skin (which is SO much clearer now) and overall mood in general.
I'm new to these forums and was wondering what dietary restrictions to people here prefer and why?
Feel free to detail your experiences, whether that's keto, vegan, carnivorous, etc. I'm curious!
- Liney~ <3
But the question really is, are you eating a healthy nutrient dense diet? I don't care what it this diet is but are you getting the nutrients you need? Majority of vegans I see are not real vegans they are just grain eaters eating mostly grains and not plants. Eating a lot of grains and not much plants is not a good diet plan.
if you eat chicken you cannot consider yourself a vegan. Many vegans will agree. I am not one. do you like fish that's very healthy for you. do what ever works for you there is not one plan that is the best because they all work differently for everyone.
This is a good article for those hoping to lose weight... limit sugar, alcohol, and fructose consumption (including too much fruit or eat the fruit around when you do your cardio) Basically if you eliminate hot pockets, pizza, ice cream, fast food, cake, pie, etc... you will significantly increase your overall health. Stick to lean meats, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, some fruit... common sense stuff. I disagree with the author of "how not to die" that you should binge on fruit and eat lots of things like dates though. Pure sugar. High in fructose. No agave either. Honey... in moderation.. not tablespoons per day. Same with maple syrup and other "natural" sweeteners.
"What do the Atkins Diet and the traditional Japanese diet have in common? The Atkins Diet is low in carbohydrate and usually high in fat; the Japanese diet is high in carbohydrate and usually low in fat. Yet both work to promote weight loss. One commonality of both diets is that they both eliminate the monosaccharide fructose. Sucrose (table sugar) and its synthetic sister high fructose corn syrup consist of 2 molecules, glucose and fructose. Glucose is the molecule that when polymerized forms starch, which has a high glycemic index, generates an insulin response, and is not particularly sweet. Fructose is found in fruit, does not generate an insulin response, and is very sweet. Fructose consumption has increased worldwide, paralleling the obesity and chronic metabolic disease pandemic. Sugar (i.e., fructose-containing mixtures) has been vilified by nutritionists for ages as a source of “empty calories,” no different from any other empty calorie. However, fructose is unlike glucose.
In the hypercaloric glycogen-replete state, intermediary metabolites from fructose metabolism overwhelm hepatic mitochondrial capacity, which promotes de novo lipogenesis and leads to hepatic insulin resistance, which drives chronic metabolic disease. Fructose also promotes reactive oxygen species formation, which leads to cellular dysfunction and aging, and promotes changes in the brain’s reward system, which drives excessive consumption. Thus, fructose can exert detrimental health effects beyond its calories and in ways that mimic those of ethanol, its metabolic cousin. Indeed, the only distinction is that because fructose is not metabolized in the central nervous system, it does not exert the acute neuronal depression experienced by those imbibing ethanol. These metabolic and hedonic analogies argue that fructose should be thought of as “alcohol without the buzz.”"
Ive lost 31 lbs in 3 months with CICO and I think that works best.
But it doesnt matter what I think works best. Vision thinks Keto works best. Others thing Carnivore works best. Others think that Vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian works best.
Ive lost 31 lbs in 3 months with CICO and I think that works best.
But it doesnt matter what I think works best. Vision thinks Keto works best. Others thing Carnivore works best. Others think that Vegan/vegetarian/pescatarian works best.
There is no one thing that works best.
Keto is not just a diet, it's changing your body's fuel source from carb to fat. It is the only way to burn fat the quickest. You don't need to eat foods to be on keto. You can simply fast or exercise to get your body into ketosis, eating certain foods accelerates ketosis. You can be on vegan or carnivore diet and get into ketosis which is using bodyfat as fuel. So regardless of which diet plan you pick, the mechanism of body fat burning to energy is ketosis.
So you are misinformed like that luckydog person that thinks keto is only a diet. I want to accelerate fat burning so I want to induce ketosis by fasting.
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