I just started being vegan and my four reasons are:
1] To help the animals and the environment
2] Spiritually, I believe that God does not make me eat the animals.
3] weight loss and health.
4] I can not eat meat from what I saw. . . I am very sensitive.
In no particular order. . . they are all roughly equal to me.
I just want to know if someone had lost significant weight on a vegan diet. Please tell me what you did!
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8 replies on “Have you lost weight being vegan?”
wow i completly agree with you, thats horrible, that there were dead chicken in with live ones. they treat them so badly and people think its okay. i saw a thing on opra today, adn they showed these farms and it was just terrible, they said the chickens had less than the size of a piece of paper in their cages with 6 other chickens. im not a vegan yet, but i plan to be one, very soon. i just asked a question about it. but being a vegitarian i have lost weight. ive maitained a 95-97 average weight. i used to be about 108.
Great question but expect some bashing
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1] To help the animals and the environment
it will really do that & stop some ppl from starving to death
2] Spiritually, I think God doesn’t want me to eat animals.
Dont confuse spirituality & religion altough both Jesus & the Buddha taught veganism.
Animals were only mentioned as food after the floods but that wasnt the word of Jesus and very misleading.
the word “meat” originally meant edible food – not slaughtered animals
Id we followed everything in the bible we would still be slaughtering humans & kids too
the only difference between religion is history and war
3] Weight loss and health.
I lost 2 stone on a healthy veggie diet & kept very healthy
cheese is saturated fat with morphine, steroids, hormones, antibiotics & inoculations – good food?
4] I can’t eat meat after what I saw…I am very sensitive.
Your not sensitive – your compassionate.
get some Anthony Robbins stuff as he talks about seeing life destroyed before you. If it dosent upset you seeing an animal or human destroyed – your sick in the head
namaste
M
I think you made some good points on why not to eat meat, I embrace those same reasons for why I am Vegan. To answer your question about weight loss, I became a Vegan around February-March 2008, and now approximately 9 months later I have lost almost 50lbs. I never even tried. I ate and ate but kept it meat/dairy free, and although I hit several plateaus where it seemed the weight loss just stopped for a few weeks, I stayed with it and it picked up again and off would come some more pounds, so keep at it and be proud of why you do it. At least you’re doing it. That’s all that matters.
I lost 10 pounds when I became vegetarian. I’d probably loose more if I went vegan because I would have to deprive myself of goods like ice cream and chocolate. Did you see Oprah today? It was about where the meat we eat comes from and how the animals are treated. Its pretty bad, so I’m sure what your saying is really true.
Maggie M: Have your read the book, “Sybil”? Your life is beginning to resemble hers. (One day a voracious male meat-eater known as Shaif Hirboush or Hank Hill and the next a fey vegetarian known as Maggie M. Then you’ve got the hybrid “Ashley” who’s female and carnivorous.
Tell us truthfully – is getting a business degree so boring that you have to make up several personalities on Y!A for attention?
In answer to your main question – nope, I wish. Veganism isn’t a weight loss programme. There are vegans of all shapes and sizes from morbidly obese to anorexic.
Hope of weight loss should not be a reason for adopting a vegan diet.
My first months and a half of being vegan took away 10-12 pounds and since then I’ve weighed about the same. Every now and then, I’ll lose another pound just being vegan alone since I haven’t worked out in months and I never go on diets.
1] To help the animals and the environment
there are many other factors invloved in helping animals and the environment, but in general vegans do much more good for both than harm, that is true.
2] Spiritually, I think God doesn’t want me to eat animals.
I you are going according to the Bible this is incorrect, God allowed us to eat anything we wanted after the fall, before the fall we were commanded to only eat fruit i believe, but afterwords we could eat anything.
3] Weight loss and health.
This is largely a myth, a vegan who eats a healthy diet is no more healthy than a meat eater who eats a healthy diet, the numbers on that are skewed in favor of veganism because of the large amount of meat eaters who tend to eat unhealthily. Also the weight loss thing is also not really accurate, weight is related directly to the amount of calories taken in. Although people generally do lose some weight when switching because there aren’t as many food options, it’s not a guarantee, if you still take in the same amount of calories you did before you changed your diet you will not lose any weight. Losing weight has everything to do with your own self discipline and nothing to do with whether you are vegan or not.
4] I can’t eat meat after what I saw…I am very sensitive.
Unless you “saw” what you think you saw in person i would be careful about what you believe from some youtube video, there is A LOT of propaganda floating around on both sides of this debate, namely PeTa, and on the other side, the food industry. Do your own research, visit a local farm and see how things are actually done before passing judgment.
my 2 cents