VEGETA

Thanks for your answers, @Northstar before the 100% Vegan Diet I ate about 4 weeks to 50% raw and one time per week tuna or a few eggs but no meat at all and no beans/lentils and everything was fine with gas (said nothing). Seed and Nuts are okay but too fatty in ratio to protein in my opinion @I'm Your man I think I need more protein because on my training day yesterday I was weaker than my last training session, maybe it's just the adaption I don't know. (Hm, as I ate paleo one time I ate every morning 5 eggs and 250ml cream and dinner 400 gram poultry with veggies and I had no little fart in that time but unfortunately I was heavy constipated and weak). @Ducati Would you give me some examples?? Most of what I have seen in the before after pics was just losing fat and muscle, one guy even thought he gained muscle but just add fat... I saw your pics and I don't want to minimize your achievement but you just lost much fat AND muscle for sure, I couldn't read out that you are exercising at all? Are you? What bf % and lean mass do you have? I assume to little for your bodyweight ratio therefore you have a small protein need if not at all you are eating to few protein. Regarding to my bf % you are close, but that will be a secret until I post before after pics after a month on the vegan diet. My goal would be Avi on the main page or Derek but I know, far to go And they are eating minimum 100-120g of protein/day. But I try to add some muscle just the problem because of the beans and lentils I am not able to eat more than the 1800kcal without heavy overeating, I am trying too eat more... It's not worthy to overeat as I try to train and can't move lol... @vegimator Thanks for the tips.

Hey peopz, I am on day 3 on my 100% vegan diet and have a few problems with my nutrition. I ate the last 3 days each 250 gram (dry weight) (black beans/ pinto beans and today lentils) + 1kg veggie mix (broccoli/cauliflower and carrots) that's my lunch and dinner, and breakfast is 4 slices whole wheat toast and a few dried figs. First problem is I get all day long farts, feeling bloated and it's not comfortable when I try to train for example, because this is too much food in my stomach and the worst of all I am not really satisfied at all, had to stuff with whole wheat bread a little bit. In other words I have to overeat, I think that's not good as well. But I have to eat this load 'cause of protein needs. This would be about 65 gram of protein per day on about 1800kcal. I think it's still to low of protein and I can't imagine to eat this big everyday... not to mention my calorie needs. So what do you would do, supplement with a protein powder to reduce the beans and lentils? And do you think I get used to this gases in a few days? That it will be fewer if the adaption is over? Any advice is welcome!

No it's not the intelligence question. It's just that our colons if we would compare gorillas with us are too different. But I don't want to discuss this or the intelligence debate either. But yes cold fisson and I'm Your Man, when I think about it... somehow you are right.

You know what I mean

Thanks man! Height is 5'11'' and weight is 185 and (hopefully) rising. Maintenance calories are between 3000 and 4000 for me and if I'm trying to gain weight, as I am now, I push that up over 5000. I have a fast metabolism and my body would really rather be about 165 so I have to eat a ton. Check the topics labels on the right margin of our blog and you should see one labeled 'diet planning'. That's Marcella's nutrition spreadsheet which I have found really helpful. Give it a whirl! Thank you very much Derek and very useful data sheet!

Hey all, @katz thanks a lot @I'm Your Man Yes, but we are not "animals" they eat usually "their" food, you can't compare it with humans, it's like the argument of the gorilla and the human. Indeed the Ayuverdic diet is very interesting, read a little bit about it now, saw the food list of my type, I am supposed to be a Vatta type. The food list fits perfectly with my blood type diet and the descriptions of this type as well. My avatar may be misleading, my body constitution is thin and small boned. Later I will post Before/After pics after a month on a vegan diet I think. I try to be 100% clean. Okay watched the vid: Must admit really shocking... it hit me inside... To the point of avoiding eating too much, it's such thing, because I think I have to eat really large on a vegan diet to reach my calorie intake I have to overeat on lentils/legumes so we will see. Btw yesterday (on my crap day) I ate yoghurt and cheese tonight when I went sleeping I feeled more mucus in my nose caused of dairy. Very bad, time to stay away from it though I was for over a month. That's the prove for me that it is bulding up mucus in my system. @Dallas thanks for your opinion, I am disciplined in things of eating for health. When I was on the paleo diet my friends tried to force me to eat pizza and burgers but I could resist easily. I punched them then was silence

Okay Vegan Joe, thanks for answering @ Ted Trendy I understand, assume the end goes like this, we (the mankind (most of us except vegans)) are the killer, end of story we are killing ourselves right? Okay because you want to watch the whole movie I will do it soon. Could you answer my questions I asked Ted? Would be nice

Thanks for your suggestions Vegan Joe! How about your energy, is it through the roof?

Really impressive. A good goal to keep on focused €dit: What's your height and weight? How many calories for maintenance do you consume on a daily basis with what macros? Couldn't find it on your blog.

Haha dude! I know you!!! Saw you the first time about 4-5 years ago on tube! Never thought you are on a vegan diet! Cool covers I made some as well Greetz, S.

Hey, watched the very first minutes of earthlings and it bores me. I know that sounds egoistic and bla but I'm not eating for ethics but rather for health reasons like I said before. Certainly you are thinking "what a jerk" but I don't care. Fact is I know what they will tell if you are seeking intensly for the optimal nutrition for yourself for more than 1 year you don't get over it to NOT read about animal rights and so on, so I know much about species-appropriate husbandry. Maybe I take a look later on it. By the way when I ate the two last weeks almost vegan I hadn't any cravings for animal food so... that's not the problem to get it out of my food intake. Especially if it's not considered as "healthy" or not optimal for me I can ditch any food for a long time, I'm hard at this, I mean I do everything what have to be done to get healthy. (I'm not ill, with healthy I mean to be strong and have a high performance level.) @vege that is some interesting point to include some animal food, I thought of it too to eat once in a while a few eggs or fish. Especially do you tried whole grain pasta with fried eggs? That's so delicious! A few days ago I ate some tuna, damn... the next 3 toilet-courses my piss stank exactly like the tuna, disgusting! I don't eat that fish again. I try to eat foods for my metabolic type and blood type. I bought black beans and pinto, never ate it in quantity, let's see how it will taste tomorrow. Today, like I mentioned before is my last crap day and I already overdone it, I feel horrible, too much cakes, cheese and fat of nuts (peanut butter, I know it's a legume ), I feel so lethargic, maybe it's the lack of sleep as well. (had today nightshift and didn't sleep for over 35 hours. But since I have been half vegan for the last 2 weeks I must admit that I didn't feel so sleepy like the last night shift, I felt fit! I hope that's a sign that I am on the right track. I think I let milk product out of my nutrtion and eat some eggs once in a while for B12 or something. Yesterday I ate low-fat yoghurt again after a whole month without any milk product, I just can feel how mucus built-up in my system. And it wasn't even delicious though I used to love yoghurt... And if I am eating meat then just a little bit poultry. For making my veggies I will use some organic butter from grass fed cows (Kerrygold). Okay that's a long post. I hope you don't have a bad attitude against me. Also I've made the mistake to not eating enough protein on my vegan transition so I hope the beans are my friends and digest well. Questions for you vegan people here. Do developed or develope gases at the beginning of your vegan carrier of consuming legumes/especially after green peas? What is your REAL feeling not the conceited feeling of being energetic? Did you experience really far more energy than the non-vegan based nutrition you did? Please be really honest!!! Greetz, S.

Hey peopz, I thought I register to the vegan community and "say hello to my little friendz" The reason I registered was that I wanted to try the vegan way of life. About me I am straight and tell you what I am thinking even if it won't fit your opinion, I'm just honest. I don't care about the animals I just care of my health because without health you are nothing! To go back to the reason I registered - I want to force myself to stay vegan for a couple of days then weeks and maybe forever if it's bringing me vibrant health. I think I'll start a log or something that you can "see" me and that I won't go off the track so easily though I am very disciplined. Since 2 weeks I try to eat vegan style but had one egg and fish once in a while. Today I eat what I want - crap. Even though I could buy myself what I want I don't even had the desire to eat meat, that's good I think. Tomorrow I start my vegan way of life - let's see how long it will last. I have many experience in nutrition say blood type diet, paleo (did this almost 3 months and crashed terrible...), metabolic typing and so on to name a few. So I am looking forward to a new and good future with you all Greetz S.