Lose weight the vegan way

It is a misconception that you gain weight by eating too
much. The fact is, you stuff ourselves with the wrong
kinds of food - too much animal-based foods.

Hear this from Dr Terry Shintain, a Hawaiian doctor who is
devoted to helping obese adults slim down and lead
healthier lives. According to him, hunger is a natural
physical drive for you. When you are hungry, you must
satisfy your hunger and eat. That's absolutely nothing
wrong with this fact.

However, to maintain your weight, you only need to eat
foods that deliver 2,000 to 2,500 calories per day. Any
calories above this range will probably cause weight gain.

So do animal foods satisfy your hunger, without piling on
the excess calories? No!

Animal foods are so rich in calories but lack in bulk that
you probably have to eat a lot of them to feel satisfied.
By then, you would have exceeded your daily calorie limit.
If you overeat at every meal and does not expend the excess
calories, the end result will be weight gain.

Then you start to panic and turn to desperate measures like
skipping meals, popping diets pills or going to weight-loss
centers to lose weight. But you still fail because you
feel so deprived while you are on diet as you are already
accustomed to high-fat foods. Worst still, you have to
endure the embarrassing side effects of some weight-loss
treatments.

Eventually you give up because no one can endure these
feelings for long. And the vicious cycle continues.

Now, vegan diet offers a better solution to weight loss
since most plant-based foods are low in calories but high
in fiber and other nutrients.

Fiber is the culprit in reducing hunger and improves
satiety. It helps to move food through the digestive
system faster, thereby reducing the energy absorption.

Consider this : for 2,500 calories, you need to eat 9.4lbs
of apples compared to only 2.1lbs chicken. Can you imagine
eating 9.4lbs of apples to feel satisfied? You probably
feel full after 2 apples and that's not even half of 2,500
calories.

That's why plant foods allow you to eat as much as you
like-without consuming extra calories.

Vegans obtain 55-65% of their calories from unrefined
carbohydrates. These complex carbohydrates actually speed
up your metabolic rate even while resting, It also enhance
the release of seratonin (a chemical in the brain which
affects emotion, behaviour and thought) which helps to
suppress further cravings.

You can find out more about the calories of each food so
that you will have an idea of your calories count.

The whole idea is to eat the widest possible variety of
fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans and to eat when
you're hungry, stop when you're full.

Ultimately, you still need to strike a balance of body,
mind and spirit in order to lead a healthy lifestyle. The
choice is yours.

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