Vegan Diet Weight Loss

If you eat a well-balanced whole food vegan diet, weight loss is inevitable if you are overweight. I usually don’t approach promoting the consumption of a whole food plant-based diet from the angle of “weight loss” because my primary concerns are the health benefits associated with eating a vegan diet.

I get it. Image means a lot and people want to improve their images by removing excess fat on their bodies. I am more concerned with the health destroying excess fat in their bodies, and fortunately both can be removed by consuming a whole food vegan diet. I hope you caught on to my emphasis on the term “whole food.”

A whole food vegan diet consists of eating whole fruits, vegetables, nut, seeds, legumes, and whole grains, while excluding unhealthy plant derived foods like potato chips, pastries, processed bread and grains, soda, processed cereals, and also meat and dairy. These processed plant foods contribute to weight gain, obesity, and chronic disease like high blood pressure and heart disease, just like the consumption of meat and dairy does.

Consuming a whole food vegan diet leads to weight loss for several reasons. One reason many people overlook is a whole food vegan diet does not contain cholesterol. Plants don’t contain cholesterol! Cholesterol is a form of fat and when there is too much HDL cholesterol in the body it leads to the development of atherosclerosis, fatty liver, and a host of other internal issues. A lot of the excess fat we develop is actually on the inside of the body, as well as in the muscle and skin. Removing the consumption of cholesterol removes the consumption of a source of fat.

You get fat by eating fat. You get lean by removing fat from the diet. A well rounded whole food vegan diet is naturally low in fat, consisting on average of only around 10% of the total calories consumed. Stop eating a lot of fat and you lose fat weight. Meat and dairy is loaded with unhealthy animal saturated fat. The Western diet is exceptionally high in fat because a ton of fat is also added to the diet by cooking meat in oil, whether it is oil from animals or vegetables.

A whole food vegan diet is loaded with fiber. The consumption of a high fiber diet helps to keep the digestive tract clean. Fiber adds bulk to the digested food, which helps the muscles of the intestines to efficiently moves food through the intestines.

Without sufficient fiber the intestinal muscles struggle and overwork to move food and waste, which can to the development of pouches in the intestinal wall called diverticula. These pouches collects protein and fat which becomes putrid over time and you can end up carrying up to 20lbs of waste in your colon. Eating a fiber rich vegan diet helps to clean the colon of the putrid waste, resulting in weight loss.

The great thing about eating a well-rounded whole food vegan diet is you don’t have to worry about counting calories. You can eat as much as you want and your efforts will still result in weight loss.

Resources To Help The Vegan Diet Weight Loss

• Nutritional guide based on the Dr Sebi food list
• Things to know to make switching to a vegan diet easier
• Video: Why Did I Become A Vegan?