Showing posts with label Vegetarian Weight Loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegetarian Weight Loss. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2009

How to Quickly Lose Weight





In case you want to achieve fast weight loss from the best methods, then there are many ways by which you can do it. Here I am going to discuss a few methods which are vegetarian.

  1. Cabbage soup: Cabbage soup is great for people who want to achive fast weight loss. But consuming so much cabbage all the time can become irritable. So you can try alternating it with tomato soup also.
  2. Lemonade: This is a great diet plan if you want fast weight loss. It is not as smelly as the cabbage diet. However, it should not be used for a very long time. Researches indicate that it can affect your mood swings. 
  3. Fasting: Often people love to fast to get fast weight loss results. But fasting is not a permanent solution and your body regains the same weight as soon as you leave fasting. The theory is little complicated. basically your body reaches a plateau once it burns too many calories after days of fasting and refuses to burn any more calories because then it wants to conserve energy.
  4. Exercising: Exercising is the best fast weight loss method. But if it is accompanied with a great vegetarian diet, the results will be better. 
One other method of sheding weight quickly is by a method called calorie shifting. In this different types of foods are used to trick the body's metabolic activity. You can achive good results in a short duration.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

10 Tips on Vegetarian Weight Loss - Vegan diet


Vegan Tip 1: Just throw away that junk food and white sugar. Try to leave the meat too

Vegan Tip 2: How about joining a support group? It will keep you motivated. Also you can find vegetarians who can guide you with their regime.

Vegan Tip 3: Contact the local bodies or nutritionist who can send you free vegetarian starter packs.

Vegan Tip 4: Try out vegetarian recipes supplementing for the meat. For example try out a veggie burger, tofu instead of pork in green curry, and vegetable pies.

Vegan Tip 5: Consume less milk and dairy products and less of red meat. You don’t have to give up eating meat. Just eat lean meat like fish. Supplement with more vegetables whenever you feel hungry.

Vegan Tip 6: Try consuming organic vegetables - ones which are grown in farms which do not use pesticides. Have more of whole grain breads, beans, rice, nuts and cereals.

Vegan Tip 7: Don’t worry so much about protein. An average human body only needs 8% of dietary protein. Did you know that that amount of protein can be found in an orange?

Vegan Tip 8: Do regular exercises and take plenty of water. Your body will feel a lot healthier and better.

Vegan Tip 9: Try to see if you have a local vegan community.

Vegan Tip 10: Last but not the least – remove stress!

Vegetarian Weight Loss


Did you know that according to the experts even though the obesity is skyrocketing in the general population, it stands at 0-6% in the vegetarians? Additionally the body weight of the vegetarians is almost 3-20% lower than that of the meat eaters. Both the vegetarian and vegan diets were put to study by the researchers and it was found that a vegan regime can lower as much as 1 pound per week. However during that week it is not necessary to go for additional exercises. Thus even if you eat food that is high in fiber content such as fruits and vegetables and whole grains, you will have a healthy body weight with no hunger pangs.

Further delving into the theory the researchers found that a vegan diet can burn more calories after you have taken the meals. This alternatively means that the food that is plant based is used more effectively by the body as its fuel. The fact is that the insulin sensitivity increases which allows the nutrients to swiftly enter the cells, which then converted into heat (energy) instead of getting converted into fats.


Thus meat eaters who switch over to the plant based diet put on less weight than the ones who continue eating it.