Do you know any vegaterians who are overweight? or are they all lean?!
Answers: i know a few vegaterians and theyr all nice and slim, just wandering if people follow a healthy lifestyle and arnt slim
Absolutely. Being vegetarian alone doesn't mean you're eating healthy. Sugar, butter, cheese, potato chips, fried foods, are things you may eat as a vegetarian, and they can all make you overweight.
The reason most of the vegetarians you know are slim, is because vegetarians usually have healthier eating habits.
On the other hand, I don't know too many overweight vegans, but they do exist also.
If you want to lose weight or stay slim, you have to burn more calories than you consume. But I would suggest, concentrating on staying healthy, and the weight loss will follow.
For instance, don't stay away from eating sugar because it's fattening, stay away from it because it's unhealthy. It's a stronger reason, and it'll help you more to stick to the diet.
Sorry my answer got a little long. I hope I answered your question. :)
LOL! Yes, my mother has been a Vego for 10 years and she definatly is no string bean, but, I find vegans are usually slim...vegetairians can vary...
I know several that are overwieght.
Being vegetarian does not mean you have a healthy diet.
Being veggie means you do not eat meat, fish, poultry and slaughter by-products.
If you want, you could eat deep fried batter coated chocolate and be veggie.
I haven't eaten any mean for 16+ years, and, no, I am not slim or lean! lol I do eat a varied, healthy diet, and walk upwards of 8 miles a day, but I am still 'rotund'.
My mother is a vegetarian - and she's been one since she was extremely young - she was slim until she hit her 30s and she's been large ever since. I was unfortunate enough to inherit her fat genes. I'm a meat eater.
I know one vegetarian girl who wasnt necessarily overweight. But she wanst lean either. :)
****And people need to quit saying vegetarians are unhealthy!! You can buy vitamin pills for lost nutrients! But they arent necessary because you can find all your protien etc in vegetarian foods too, you just have to look a little harder!
I have been a Vegan all of my life meaning that I do not eat anything that has ever had anything to do with an animal. I am in excellent shape and condition because I work out 2 times a day for 1.5 hours each time, however my sister who is also a Vegan is grossly over weight. She seldom walks, has a bad lifestyle and smokes like a freight train. Diet is only a small part in being healthy.
Michael H hits it right on the head, there are slim vegaterians as they are fat ones. I have meet both kinds.
There are thin and overweight vegetarians as there are thin and overweight non-vegetarians. I have friends who became vegetarians because they were overweight. After three years, they are still overweight (one in fact is even heavier) though they claim to be healthier.
I have been vegetarian for around 20 years and I am average weight and height for my age. I have an office job and when I did my medical for work several years ago she said it was unusual for people in my line of work to be average weight, most are overweight, so I guess that's a bonus. I am not terribly slim though, but possibly I am slim for someone in a desk job - so that must be because of my vegetarian diet.
I try and eat healthily in general, but I go through unhealthy periods in busy times and if travelling it can also happen.
My exercising is pretty spasmodic - I go through periods where I will swim, walk or other things, then I get a bit slack at other times, specially when I have lots of relatives in town and the weather is hot, or around Christmas when we have lots of lunches and things at work. I probably eat worst at this time as well.
I don't know that many vegetarians but I think most of the one's I have met look pretty healthy - that is, not too thin and not too fat. I think the thing stopping a lot of vegetarians being too thin is nuts and bread.
I think I probably eat too much bread and should eat more tofu and rice - it's more of a convenience thing.
i've been a vegetarian for 13 years. Well, about six months ago I started eating fish like maybe once every 2 weeks for the omega-3s. Also thought I might lose weight. But, I found that after so long I couldn't digest the fish very well and gave it up, for the most part. I may have some at a restaurant once every few months, but haven't had it in a while now. I lost 10 pounds the first week I was a vegetarian, but mostly because I was eating salads and cottage cheese. Relatives told me that I would automatically go to my ideal weight because I wasn't eating meat. That didn't happen. I go up and down in weight dramatically all the time. I just happen to be one of those people who have the habits connected with that. So I think it depends on the person. I think alot of vegetarians are doing it for the animal welfare. They may not focus as much on the health aspect. Those who adopt the diet based on pure health reasons are probably more likely to work out, in my opinion. So I think it varies from person to person. On an interesting note, when I've tried being vegan my skin has looked awesome, but I've gained weight. Probably just doing it wrong. The thing is, not everyone eats lentils and all that. Some people eat too much white bread and white pasta etc. So there are lots of factors.
Most are kind of in the middle I think. Harder to be obese I guess lol. I heard it makes your waist smaller. That Amanda chick from A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila is a vegetarian.
Me and my wife is overweight 6 years ago, but now able to maintained 20-23 bmi. We have been vegan for pass 6 years.
I do not have idea whether vegan diet make someone slim... But vegetarian diet mostly make someone more disciplined, controlled, less likely alcoholic, smoking, drug addict, less fatten food, less junks, less cakes and less chocolate choice available in the market.
I do not have idea whether vegan diet make someone slim...But vegan/vegetarian surely eats HIGHER PORTION OF VEGETABLES & FRUITS than a ordinary meat-eater.
Generally vegetarians are "slimmer than the meat eater" in average.
Do not compare one-to-one, but based to the "law of large numbers".
Yes, eventhough there are plenty of vegan funded on-line sources available, but I will not please you by then.
Below is the link from Obesity Research Institute.
If you seen a vegetarian who is overweight, he may become a obese if he switched to meat-eating. It is more to his eating plus lifestyle customary.
Anyone can be over weight if you eat to much....
My hubby is veggie and about 21stone. He lives on cheese and pizza. I cook proper food for the kids but he works odd hours and doesn't excercise.
Even at 6ft 4 it's not a good weight.
The vegetarians I've met are either sickly skinny or super fatheads. I do not believe either are healthier than a flexitarian diet.
Yeah, it is totally possible to be a chubby vegetarian.
Many vegetarians eat cheese and eggs (which can both add on the calories quickly). After all, a slice of cheese roughly the size of an adult's thumb is 100 calories or more. Imagine how much you can cram into a single sandwich or casserole.
Also, vegans AND vegetarians can overindulge in healthy food that is high calorie, like avocado (400 calories per avocado) or peanut butter (200 calories per 2 tablespoons).
Calories are calories. Though there has been research that proves that vegetarians sometimes eat at much as 30% more calories than meat eaters and are still slimmer and don't gain weight, it is possible to cross that line into where your body starts to pack on the pounds.
Either way, I think it'd be no surprise to the individual why they are overweight - they'd have to eat a ton of cheese and peanut butter.
Also, older people tend to get a little heavy regardless of their diet because their metabolisms slow down, but they might not cut down on their calories in response.
As a population, vegetarians are leaner and there are fewer obese vegetarians per capita. However, that does not mean all vegetarians are slim. My weight hovers on the high end of the healthy range, and my BMI sometimes slips up into the overweight category. For me, it's a function of how active I am... the last couple of months I have not put in enough exercise and am carrying a few unnecessary pounds.
Becoming a vegetarian who still eats a lot of dairy isn't going to make you drop a bunch of pounds. Dairy is still high in fat and calories (and other nasty stuff I won't mention). But becoming a vegetarian who DOESN'T eat dairy isn't going to make you drop a bunch of weight either, even if you eat relatively healthy. To lose weight you have to burn more calories than you take in. It's that simple. However, eating healthy and whole vegetarian foods WILL make it to where you can pretty much eat without counting calories and you should maintain your weight. There are a lot of people who become vegetarians AFTER they were already fat.
I'm a vegetarian and have been since 6th grade and I'm 5ft10in 130 pounds and high metabolism and slim.
Miss L, I said it once and I'll say it again, most V's are overweight and pretty unhealthy, especially in the start like quiting something--withdraws tend to make up for the quiting of something, and pretty much bigtime!
I've in cases even seen the devil come out in some people if you ween them of their precious poultry all together, take it slow and be supportive because I know you don't want your hubby to believe you are slowly taking just him off the circle of life platter, and again think of the kids. Sure it could be healthier for him but he can't go at it alone.
I must confess I am a over weight Vegan. Turns out my thyriod had crashed, I am now under dr. care for it & I hope my weight will normalize with careful eatting, & exercise. I am working on it.
Slainté(to your health)
PS Until this happened I was able to eat anything I wanted & never gained weight.
i know 2 vegetarians and 1 vegan who are overweight...one whom is obese...it all depends on what you do not what you eat...i know omnivores who are slimmer and healthier because they exercise more
I know vegetarians who are or have been overweight, although most are slender. Although my own diet is healthy for the most part I have to watch myself b/c there really *are* lots of vegetarian foods that I'm tempted to over-indulge in & a few years ago I was definately an overweight vegetarian.
Yes, my husband used to be overweight even though he has been vegetarian nearly 20 years. But recently he made some drastic change on his diet, he's super lean and muscular. Not all vegetarians are healthy. Like my husband, he love deep fry fatty unhealthy food like tempura, fries, and anything that he can deep fry on.
I gained weight as well when I became vegetarian mainly because I was confused what to substitute chickens, fish and meat, and I replace them with carbohydrates. Now, I'm educated enough to balance my meal.
Never had I ever seen a healthy vegetarian. Slim does not mean healthy. Those in Africa are lean and starving to death.
I wouldn't call it lean or slim, more like pale and kind of sickly.
I do not think being vegan is healthy just as eating too much meat can be unhealthy however back in the olympic/arena times with the spartans I even think they showed a movie on this they were incredibly buff..though even those guys might not have been as buff as these ..they ate like 25 pounds of meat a day or something it was crazy and they would work their muscles all day.. try researching ancestry and heritage - the vegans think they are saving the world little do they know how much control they really do have.. same with the homosexual agenda ;) (cutting back on the population) *laughs crazily* they need to get out of planet pluto and come back to planet earth any who .. this is my rant take care.
all the ones i have meet are a little weird
I don't know Rockmum!
I don't eat meat, because it makes me throw up. I just stopped eating it and I am tiny.
About the only thing I know for sure is that Vegetarians and Vegans are the B!tchiest people alive (not all, but more than half!). I wonder if eating some meat would make them nicer???
Hmmmm!!! Might experiment later! xxx
See I told you so!! - I proved my point!!!