I am a newby vegan....?!

I am a newby vegan....?

I am also overweight (225lbs and 5'4) but I do carry a lot of muscle because of my job so I don't look as heavy as I am. Will I lose weight? I will stay true to my animal friends regardless, but what has been your experience?

From what I've seen others experience, diet alone will not be very affective. It will likely work, but very slowly unless you go on a fast or drastic reduced diet etc. Not a good idea; that will ruin your already poor metabolism. I have seen some HUGE people go healthy vegan but it took them a long long time to finally slim down to a more natural level of body fat. But, on the other hand, I (being a bicycle racer and etc.) know of some HUGE people who took up bicycle racing. Literally their fat just melted away. In a year, they were unrecognizable from when I first met them -- being so... well, normal looking -- they looked like a bicycle racer. See, diet does not really make you thin very affectively -- it is your metabolism that really determines whether or not your food get stored or gets put into your system waiting for you to do exercise. If you train your body to expect that you will do exercise, it will not be stored as fat. Doing bicycle racing for so many years, when I eat, I literally get so hot I usually have to take my shirt off -- my food simply goes to energy because my metabolism is very high.

You can be thin and on a bad diet if you do enough exercise. But, your health and performance will be better on a quality diet.

Once you start intensive exercise; and I mean, trying as hard as you can -- going for the gold, so to speak, the fat storage will melt away exponentially. It will start slow but gather speed as it goes along like a ball going down a hill. Your arteries will open up, blood will flow faster, they they will open faster and faster exponentially as the flow increases. With this your performance will improve, and you will go faster and further each time you head out to train.

Vegan is the way to go -- I became one for athletics, but I am the exact same weight after my diet change as before, because I had already been bicycle racing for many years beforehand. Intensive exercise will force your body to it's optimum settings. You will gain muscle, but lose fat. You will get to a point where you are actually gaining weight because muscle weight much more than fat, but throw away the scale and just look in the mirror. It's not about weight, it's about health, metabolism, quality food, less stress, natural body-fat levels, etc. etc.

Obviously I'm an advocate for intensive exercise. One more example: every day on my way to school I crossed the track field. There were these very fat women who where there every day walking at a quick pace around and around the track. Years went by and I never saw a difference in their body shape. Why, because they always went at the same pace. They never went as hard and as fast as they could; never pushed themselves to their mental and physical limits. If you would like to look like a slim, trim, buff, athlete (for example), then become an athlete. Make goals. Join a racing club -- everyone will cheer you on. You will likely be dead last at first, but not for long. Hope what I said puts some spurs into ya and offers some encouragement.