I am a vegetarian and would like to have a high protein diet to lose weight?!
I am a vegetarian and would like to have a high protein diet to lose weight?
I do eat, cheese and cage free eggs, though.
I Don't eat poultry, fish/seafood, red meat or pork!(no animals)
Answers:
Here's a link to The Vegetarian Society's Protein Information Sheet.
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/protein.html...
Loads of great info there. Good luck.
Stay away from too much cheese, as it is high in cholesterol. Try some starches, like potatoes or macaroni. Eat yogurt, protein bars, legumes, rice, bread, and drink plenty of milk.
Those protein sources are also very high in cholesterol. You can also look into using soy protein, such as a a protein shake mixture available at most health stores, as well as lots of legumes. Beans and rice can get awfully tiresome, but good luck!
I make this allot and it is very yummy
1 bag frozen califlower
1 onion chopped up
1 tblsp garlic
2 cans stewed tomatos 14 oz.
1 cup of veg stock
lingine cooked till done
In a skillet saute the califlower and onion and garlic about 8 minutes then add stock and cook for about 5 minutes then add tomatoes and let cook till heated through and serve over pasta with parm cheese and garlic bread and a salad on the side YUMMY
Tofu and yogurt (consume low-fat ones). Excellent substitutes for vegetarians to provide with protein. In fact, tofu is the only plant source that has complete protein and it’s fat-less. Consume high amounts of these instead.
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But i would like to caution you that dieting, be it eating less or consuming high protein diet, is not healthy compared to the benefits a balanced meal with exercise could provide. There are no side/ill effects and it lasts. You won't find yourself putting on weight again. Your body is healthy since it has all the essential nutrients and minerals it needs to function properly. Plus, we won't know for sure if we are over-eating until we have complications. Anything low or anything high will be harmful.
Someone mentioned beans and rice.
That's only one of the many ways of combining foods to create protein. You take two or more things that each have part of a protein, and eat them together.
whole grains and legumes is one example.
combining potatoes and yogurt is another (baked potato, with yogurt and salsa, for instance)
whole grains, nuts, and seeds
using a little dairy with whole grains also stretches the protein you get.
Try looking for "protein combining" in your favorite search engine.
eat tofu yum yum yum it cooks all different ways
Ignore the high-protein diets!! They are *very* bad for your long term health! They cause a rapid weight loss by screwing up your body chemistry. That weight loss is all from water as your kidneys try to rid your bloodstream of excess amino acids. That leads to osteoporosis and/or kidney stones since your body can only remove amines by converting them into calcium salts and expelling them in urine.
There is only ONE way to lose weight and that's to burn more calories than you eat! It doesn't take a massive change in that balance either. Either cut your calories or increase exercise by 100 net calories a day and in one year you save 365,000 calories! That little bitty daily change adds up to a lot, doesn't it?
My brother and his girlfriend had great success by doing a cleanse. So much so I tried it (I'm not a vegetarian, but they are) and I've been very happy.
Check it out
Why don't you stop being so lazy and just go outside and do some exercise. You don't need to lose weight, perhaps you mean that you need to lose fat. Eat more, exercise more, less fat, see? Exercise will drop your fat, but actually you might even weight more, because you will have these things called muscles that become larger and stronger and weight more than twice as much as fat. Not only that, but you will alter your metabolism and train your body to use your food as energy instead of storing it as fat. Exercise is a win win win win situation. You will feel better, get more oxygen and blood pumping through your body. Yes, I've heard all sorts of bull from some people that "no matter how much exercise I do, I just cannot lost any fat." I've seen most people's version of exercise, and what that usually is is jogging on the treadmill while chatting to their friend for 15 minutes = not a workout. Get out there, try hard, perhaps join a team or a club; just exercise and forget that old alter the diet to lose weight thing. Then listen to your body and feed it properly for performance. Try eating cheese before a work out, then next time try an apple, which works better? Try eating meat next time, then after that, try eating something else. The harder you exercise, the louder your body will tell you what is better to eat.
Fad diets dont work. Avoid refined carbs and sugars and exercise.