*(I know people lose weight differently, but I just want on average.)
**(With eating no chocolate/other sweets. Only fruits, veggies, and healthy snacks.)Vegetarian Diet.?
Weight loss is controlled by one factor ONLY. The ratio of how many calories you eat vs. how many calories you burn!
Add up all the calories you eat in a day, NO cheating and don't forget things like the amount of calories in what you drink! If you want to lose weight and keep it off cut your calorie intake by only 100 or 200 calories a day. To gain weight do the opposite. As an alternative to changing your calorie intake you can burn an extra 100 or 200 calories.
Doesn't sound like that little change will do much but it's EASY to do which means you'll keep at it instead of cheating! Over the course of a year that 100 calories a day adds up to 365,000 calories! Sounds obvious but everyone always misses that.
What can make it easier to lose weight on a veggie diet is that as a rule veggie food is less calorie dense than meat/dairy.
Here's an example to give you an idea of what I mean.
A meat eater can have a big mac, fries and a shake. Then be hungry a few hours later.
I can fill a two gallon bowl with a head of leaf lettuce (actually has 5 grams high quality protein!), a few roma tomatoes, a bell pepper, a handful of baby carrots, some diced soysage, some sprouts, half a cuke, green onions, squash, an entire avocado, some black olives, artichoke hearts, Harvard beet slices, baby corn, a good handful of assorted herbs plus a large handful of parley, baked pita chip croutons and a decent amount of oil%26amp;vinegar dressing along with some grinds of pepper and a dusting of sea salt.
I'll be totally STUFFED for the whole day! I just got MORE protein, more vitamins and more minerals than the meat eater. I also ate less sugar, less fat (especially saturated fat), less salt and LESS calories than the meat eater did in ONE meal!
Get the idea? '-)
You're welcome!
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Vegetarian Diet.?There is no typical amount.
Weight loss will depend on so many factors:
--your current state of obesity.
--your caloric intake (if your veggie diet includes lots of oily nuts, angel food cake, lemon pie, kartofellkuchen, and a nice 12-pack of beer, fuggedabout weight loss!)
--your level of physical fitness and activity.
OK, so you promise to consume no sweets. A vegetarian diet still requires planning--a little more than a traditional weight-loss diet. You have to read up on vegetarian sources of nutrients, particularly protein and folic acid. Once you understand those things, keeping your intake moderate will probably lead to some weight loss--but again, hard to predict. My wife and I lost a couple of pounds a week when we went veg almost 30 years ago--I guess that means that age is also a factor...
If you like on junk food , like I do, forget about losing weight.Vegetarian Diet.?
Impossible to answer. People lose weight by burning more calories then they eat.
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