Calorie restriction necessary on high carb cooked vegan diet?

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl on June 2, 2012 at 6:53am

Susan Powter (spelling?) wrote good books about weight loss/fitness in the 90's, and she advocated a low fat diet, but not even vegan. She was TOTALLY against calorie restriction. I think she said she ate like 4,000 calories a day. 

I don't think you should ever restrict low-fat calories from whole foods. You have to eat to be satisfied. When you start restricting calories, then you set yourself up for the rebound effect of binges to make up for the time you spent starving. 

I think everyone should read Alison Andrew's book: Fat to Fabulous (though I think the title is terrible). It's linked on this site and you can read the first 40 pages free. It totally demolishes the idea of calorie restriction as a good idea to lose weight. 

Permalink Reply by chris nelson on June 2, 2012 at 7:07am

so there is a bit of a debate between Fuhrman and Mcdougall but Mcdougall doesn't say anything about restricting calories. He does say something about not eating breads and pastas and eating more green and yellow veggies.                

Permalink Reply by Iron Clad Ben on June 2, 2012 at 7:20am

I think if you are not including refined sugar, oils, condiments and salt you shouldn't need to restrict calories.

Permalink Reply by PK on June 2, 2012 at 7:34am

Cooked should only be a last resort in case of financial emergencies and or not enough ripe fruit.  

Without worrying about weight loss, mixing two or more diets together, especially fruit and cooked foods, can cause detox problems.

However, if one has to add in cooked, then it should be fat free, as close to it natural form as possible, (ie steamed veggies, and without toxic additive such as salt and spices, and with as much fresh raw fare as possible.  

This web site can help keep one on track health wise:

http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/science.html

Peace, PK

Permalink Reply by PK on June 2, 2012 at 7:46am

BTW, I meant to say that by keeping cooking to a minimum, whether that is the amount eaten or how it is processed, and the food fat free, then calorie restriction should not be necessary.

Peace, PK

Permalink Reply by Hailee Young on June 2, 2012 at 7:38am

I'm cooked vegan right now (going to go raw in a couple weeks) and I never restrict. Minimum 3000calories a day regardless of whether or not I exercise and I haven't gained any weight at all!

Permalink Reply by kindvibe on June 2, 2012 at 9:50am

We are still supporting a high carb, low fat, vegan diet here....just allowing for it to be cooked at times...that is the only difference.

Permalink Reply by TheBananaGirl on June 12, 2012 at 10:52am

After our 1 week trial of the high carb cooked vegan forum we have decided to move any discussions about cooked food to a specialised group. It was going well however we can see the potential for the cooked food discussions to overrun the home page and we want to keep the forum on the HC raw vegan track as much as possible. All discussions about cooked food will now be closed and a note added about them being moved to the group. Feel free to discuss high carb cooked vegan foods/meals there.

Thanks for working with us!

http://www.30bananasaday.com/group/high-carb-cooked-vegan-discussions