My mom and sister are long time vegans as am I, basically since I was born. I've been doing HCLF vegan for 7 months on and off raw, mostly mixing it up with rice and beans and spaggetti. I've always been one to smash in the calories during swim and waterpolo season the last four years, but before it was mostly in the form of peanut butter banana burritos, which I would down 3-4000+ calories a day with. I was kind of on a moderately high fat vegan diet before, and I've always had a little gut, but I dont think anyone would have considered me overweight. I'm 18 and was a 5'8'' guy at roughly 140-150 pounds depending on the time of day.
Since beginning this diet, my first problem was undereating on the calories same as everyone because I just wasnt used to the volume. I didnt gain or lose any weight in the first few months. In the last couple months however, I've been smashing the calories in with that more is good mentality. My caloric intake is now usually around 4-5500 calories a day usually consisting of 2000 calories from bananas and dates until dinner when I down 2-3000 calories of rice and beans, and/or spaggetti. I just love to eat MASSIVE amounts of food, but I didn't go very hard on the cooked food in the beginning. Since then my weight has increased to around 155-165 pounds depending on the time of day, but I'm still quite active.
I'm always joking that I have a sixpack abs when I clearly don't. Since gaining that 10 pounds however, I'm further away from my sixpack dream than I ever have been and I'm a bit worried. My mom says my stomach has kankles and my sister says I look pregnant. While they are both grossly exaggerating, I'm not happy with the way my stomach looks.
I still believe this diet is thebomb.com because I constantly feel so great, but if I want to see that sixpack abs, do you guys think I should lower my caloric intake, exclude the cooked food, or just accept my weight and sharpie a sixpack on my stomach fat? I could easily lower my calories to 3000ish a day, but I love eating too much!
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Permalink Reply by Esra on Celia, I wouldn't think that eating loads of fruit plus cooked HCCV (no added oil, salt, etc) would make anyone gain weight, unless someone was really overeating (yes, I believe that someone CAN overeat on either HCRV or HCCV). I haven't tried it, but that doesn't really make sense to me. Was this your experience??
Permalink Reply by Celia C (Ana) on Hi Ersa,
What I meant is that when you switch to high raw at first you think you´re eating really healthy cos during the day its all fruit then at night you have a ´normal´vegan meal, but what I didnt realise was how high in fat my vegan cooked was. I didnt realise how dense fat was, for instance I would have vegan pesto and pasta thinking nothing of it, cos b4 raw I always had it and didnt put on weight but combined with 25 bananas then thats dangerous!
Permalink Reply by Rebekka on Have you checked your protein (and mineral) levels on cronometer.com
Lots of green leaves, green smoothies, sprouts (alfalfa, mungbean) and spirulina/chlorella supplements or powder can be helpful.
Permalink Reply by Alex on People have a million different theories on why people are gaining fat on a high carb, low fat diet.
Noone really knows anything.
Permalink Reply by Reed on People have a million different theories on why people are gaining fat on a high carb, low fat diet.
Noone really knows anything.
Some people know exactly what they're talking about and can very their weight up or down very quickly. Follow knowledgeable people that also have the physique you want. Otherwise you're wasting your time. Effort and dedication are also required. The people that follow a diet but don't exercise to their potential never reach their potential.
Permalink Reply by cheeky on By experience, rice makes me gain a ton of weight in the past it was easy.
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