Vegan please advise my new diet? Nutrition?!


Question: Vegan please advise my new diet? Nutrition?
This week I started my new vegan diet, by getting EVERY VITAMIN and mineral I need from plants.

EXAMPLE this morning I have eaten and kept track of:

12" Subway Veggie Delight; Guacamole w/ Wheat Crackers
Drinks - Chocolate soy milk, Cran-Pomegranate juice

Total Fat 87% ~90%
Saturated 54% ~55%
Sodium 73% ~75%
Carbohydrate 83% ~85%
Fiber 136% ~140%
Sugars 82g ~83g
Protein 40g ~41g
Calories 1542 ~1550

As you can see, cutting out dairy and milk has caused my diet to completely replace Saturated Fat with Fiber. What I notice today about my food is that I'm high in Calories, Fiber, Fat, Sugar, Sodium, and Saturated Fat. So tomorrow I will aim for lighter foods higher in Protein.

One other bad thing I did today was screwing up by eating all of the food mentioned above in a very short time span of a few hours. That's why I didn't watch my calories close enough. As a result, I'm going to have to punish my appetite today, with a small amount of peanuts and maybe fruit juices.

Nutrition is a learning adventure for me as well as a difficult challenge. If I don't exercise, none of this effort will be used to help me lose my body fat.

Answers:

If your fresh produce is costing more than processed, frozen, or canned, then you are shopping poorly. Buy IN SEASON produce. Shop sales. Use farmer's markets and produce stand whenever possible. My local store has 5lbs of Clementines for $4 right now. Apples are $.80/lb.

As far as your weight loss, I think your biggest problem is a lack of self control/will-power or that you dont have a great concept of nutritional content of food. Your breakfast was enough food to feed me for most of a day. Have you tried a food journal so that you can plan your meals at the beginning of the day and see where you are at throughout the day? http://www.kraftrecipes.com/healthy-livi… - meal & fitness planner.

I agree that you need to cut out the juice and the chocolate soy milk. If you feel you need to soy milk, then get an UNSWEETENED soy milk. Westsoy makes an unsweetened vanilla soy milk, but it tastes a little off. You can grow accustomed to it though. I think that Silk may make one as well.

Otherwise, you can get Nutritional Yeat Flakes. I've seen containers for as little as like $.35/serving. http://www.nutricity.com/n/pc/viewPrd.as…

You also don't have a good idea of HOW to diet appropriately. If you fail one day, you start over the next day. You don't "punish" yourself. This sets you up to binge at your next meal and starts a horrible cycle.

ETA; OMG, really? A bit thick, eh? I'm not anti-soy milk. You state that you are trying to lose weight but are eating too many calories. Sweetened soy milk is has more calories than unsweetened soymilk or nutritional yeast.
Silk and 8th Continent Chocolate have 140 calories for 1c.
Silk Light Vanilla has 80.
Westsoy Unsweetened Vanilla has 100 and almost twice as much protein as the Silk Chocolate.
And you mentioned that cost was a concern. Silk Chocolate Soymilk starts at what, $4 a 32oz carton? That's $1 per serving.



1. You will still need a B-12 supplement, or at least eat B-12 fortified foods (possibly it's in the soy milk).

2. You need protein from legumes and nuts as well as whole grains, in order to get a good complement of amino acids.

3. You're better off from the standpoint of vitamins, calories, and fiber to eat fresh whole fruit, rather than taking them in juice form.



cut the choc milk and have water instead. get some legumes and beans instead of subway. fresh juice instead of bottled. see how that goes then ask more questions ; )



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I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but you definitely need a more balanced diet than that. Eat more vegetables, from the grocery store or even better, farmers' market, not from Subway. I know it's convenient but they leave those out all day and they are low quality to begin with. The lettuce is mostly water, then there are only tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, and other low nutrient veggies, save maybe the spinach. and why support a company that is going to charge you for a full sandwich when you're really just eating the toppings of the meat one?

Just eat a balanced diet. Go to vegweb.com and make a whole bunch of recipes on there.

also veganhealth.org is a good site run by a vegan registered dietician, and you can directly ask him specific questions too. I doubt he would completely advise you for free, though.




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