subject: Vegetarian Weight Loss - 1 Tip For Overweight Vegetarians To Break Weight Loss Plateau [print this page] It's common enough nowadays to hear about overweight vegetarians reaching weight loss plateau during their weight loss regimen. Are you one of them? Like some others, you've opted for a healthier vegetarian diet to lose weight, and yes, it was effective initially and you got some results. Great! But it suddenly stopped. You need to lose more belly fat in order to flatten it out. You're not doing so well in your quest for weight loss as a vegetarian, obviously. What went wrong?
Why Can't Overweight Vegetarians Lose More Weight?
Before we get down to why vegetarians can't lose weight, I think we should first take a quick look at what causes weight gain. Becoming a vegetarian doesn't guarantee you'll lose weight. When you eat more refined, processed vegetarian foods, you gain pounds due to their high-sugar, high-salt and high-fat content, of course, plus other chemical additives (added to enhance color and flavor) that impair your body and trigger metabolic disorder.
Knowing that, smart vegetarians start turning to unrefined vegetarian foods and eat them as whole (as far as possible) such as fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and grains etc. They got immediate results and lost weight. But after shedding 20 - 40 pounds, it stops. They got more to lose but they just couldn't. Why?
After some information exchange with these overweight vegetarians who can't wait to lose more weight, I discover the one issue that has been bugging them since they were young, and even becoming a vegetarian didn't seem to change much. That is, they don't like to eat vegetables.
Vegetables are particularly helpful in purging toxins out of your fat cells so that your body can easily mobilize those fats and convert them into fuel to power your bodily functions. You could have accumulated those toxins long ago where you're still happily munching on refined vegetarian foods. Moreover, you need a full range of nutrients for your fat-burning engine to function at its max. So, eating less veggies or taking them out of your weight loss diet means you're ingesting sort of lesser nutrients, and this can easily make your weight loss plan go awry.
Simple Solution to Break Weight Loss Plateau
By the way, what makes you cringe at eating vegetables? Their taste, green smell or you simply don't like the green leafy color or the way they look? Whatever your reasons may be, you want to lose weight as a vegetarian and break weight loss plateau, you must try to increase you veggie intake. Here I show you a tip to achieve that yet avoiding triggering your dislike for vegetables at the same time.
Blend veggies into your fruit smoothie in a (fruit to vegetable) 4:2 ratio. This way you won't have to put up with the "green" smell or flavor but yet get to savor the goodness of Mother Nature's weight loss foods. Here's a sample recipe to help you start off:
Vegetarian Weight Loss Smoothie
- 2 cups of butterhead lettuce
- 1 carrot
- 2 bananas
- 1 mango
- 1 cup of strawberries
- 1 cup of water
I got to warn you. Sticking to just this recipe may not work wonders. You should in fact, change the recipe with various other ingredients every day. Once you feel ok with the 4:2 ratio, increase it to 3:2 to invite more vegetables in your weight loss diet for a more effective vegetarian weight loss. Oh, you can take this smoothie as your breakfast or dinner. Bear in mind that your lunch should be just as nutritious or you won't break your weight loss plateau easily.
by: Laura Ng
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