Last Kilt Just Fell Off

[xman]

The nice thing about following a whole food plant (vegan) diet you don't need to count calories.

This may be largely true, but it isn't exclusive. I have a vegan friend who is quite heavy and it has always seemed curious to me why. I am also dramatically reducing the amount of animal products we eat in the house. That's been pretty recent though. I'm not sure yet how it may be helping my weight loss or not. *shrug*

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement everyone. It has been hard at times, but rewarding. The hardest hit really is that a pint of beer is about 250-300 calories.

[CDNSushi]

This may be largely true, but it isn't exclusive. I have a vegan friend who is quite heavy and it has always seemed curious to me why. I am also dramatically reducing the amount of animal products we eat in the house. That's been pretty recent though. I'm not sure yet how it may be helping my weight loss or not. *shrug*

That's true. But remember, that vegan doesn't necessarily mean healthy... For the most part you really don't need to count calories on a vegan diet, but that stops being the case when you consume primarily vegan junk food.

McDonalds fries & apple pies are a good example. Very much vegan... Very much a waistline killer
chocolate: also "vegan" but very fattening
potato chips, Doritos, other snack foods: same thing
white bread / white flour products / white rice: vegan but not exactly nutritious. Most of the good, healthy stuff has been stripped away
canola oil / olive oil / coconut oil / olive oil: all said to be "healthy" oils and it ARE vegan, but ounce for ounce, it's still 100% FAT
sugar (especially white, granulated sugar): extremely bad for you, even though it's "vegan"
colas/fizzy drinks: incredibly fattening even though they are "vegan"
HFCS: Don't even get me started!

A great place to start if you've already decided to have a healthy lifestyle, is to watch the movie "Forks Over Knives." Roger Ebert called it a film that can save your life, and CNN's Sanjay Gupta loved it!

A good way to follow up is to read "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell.

Then, go out and get: Dr. McDougall's cookbook.... And The Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Finally, pay a visit to findingvegan.com. (Careful though -- not all the recipes on there are actually healthy, especially when you start getting into the desserts).

You'll NEVER be bored with your meals! Every day will be an adventure in eating, and very much delicious! I found that for me, going vegan did NOT limit my options -- it expanded my menu tremendously.

[RB51]

Good job X...that dragon boat should just fly through the water next season.

Laurie

[kiltedjoss]

Well done xman. Do u have a goal waist size before kilt purchases begin? I imagine u can only alter so much.

A more general question for rabble; how much or what is the most a kilt could be taken in before it begins to look "not right?"