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Coconut Smoothy
Weight Loss Tips for Overweight Vegetarians by Laura Ng
Having the experience of helping several overweight vegetarians to lose weight effectively, I'll show you what you can do to achieve the same results.
The strategy is actually easy to execute: Do you know what causes you to become overweight? If you know the causes, then all you need to do is just reverse the causes and you'll lose weight automatically.
Let's go find out the common triggers for vegetarians to blow in size and from there, provide tips to help remedy your overweight issues so you get to lose weight the easy vegetarian way.
1. Sweetened Vegetarian Food
Do you know how harmful it is to your health when your sweetened food contains lots of refined sugar?
It depletes your body of 27 nutrients such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, vitamin B1, B2 etc just to process the sugar for use. Your body requires these essential nutrients (along with water and other components) to help maintain an active metabolism so as to achieve weight maintenance. Consumption of these 27 nutrients in sugar breakdown causes inadequacy of nutrition, leading to sluggish metabolism and weight gain as a consequence.
Tip: If you do crave sweet stuff, take vegetarian foods that are added with unrefined sweetener like stevia nectar or agave nectar. Not only they're natural, but also contain health-beneficial minerals. Refined sugar gives you nothing but calories. Stevia is preferred because it is very sweet but yet carries zero calories. Agave holds 56 calories per tablespoon, so eat in moderation.
2. Lack of Vegetables
I've seen overweight vegetarians eating fruits, nuts and seeds and other whole grain foods, except vegetables. They don't eat vegetable probably because they don't like its almost bland taste and fibrous texture. No doubt these vegetarians may lose weight initially, but they soon reach a weight loss plateau for not getting a full spectrum of nutrients in their vegetarian diet plans.
Tip: Include vegetables by blending with fruits into smoothies for easier consumption. Make veggies to fruits a 2:3 ratio.
3. Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
TVP is helpful in transitioning to a full vegetarian. However, ingesting too much can increase your total caloric intake because most TVP foods are infused with simple sugar, sodium and bad saturated fat.
Tip: Try to phase out your TVP one by one and increase your whole food intake like fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes, whole grains etc. To neutralize the effect of bad saturated fat in TVP (if you do need to include in your vegetarian diet for tasteful consumption), add virgin coconut oil in your diet as it is a good saturated fat and helps to break down other stubborn fat in the process of increasing your metabolism.
These are the 3 common fattening causes for most overweight vegetarians. If you can follow the weight loss tips here and reverse the causes, you'll write your name off the "Overweight Vegetarian Club" not long from now.
About the Author
Laura Ng shows you how to effectively lose weight as vegetarian with her proven vegetarian weight loss diet plan (FREE) at iNotFat.com. When you apply her tried-and-true techniques and whip up the nutrient-dense, delicious fat loss recipes inside the program, you'll improve your health, get more energy, break your weight loss plateau and lose your excess fat without suffering loose skin and weight rebound.
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