That true

@Kay Shields because you did believe in this myth

Same, I wanted to prove myself I could gain weight as vegan. that darn oily sabra hummus. I was underweight before I went vegan and then I over ate just to make sure I wasn't deficient. Im 6 ft and went from like 140 to 160. Now I eat about 90% whole food and have perfect bmi at 145 lbs..I'm almost 30 and feel better than I did at 18 after two years wfpb.

Mahtiah Hildrilae You can, but it is much harder, because junk food is much more calorie dense than whole food.

Mahtiah Hildrilae Also, even though you CAN lose weight while eating junk food, it isn’t necessarily healthy to do so. In the long term it’ll do more damage to your body than good.

And Oreos are vegan ... bring on the Oreos

Yes! It's strange, but so cool!!

That lightness you feel is the absence of nutrition and satiation. You are malnourished. Congratulations.

@@spiritlevelstudios Or maybe it's that you can get enough nutrition and meet your daily calorie requirement without having to stuff yourself on heavy, fatty, hard-to-digest foods.

Keep dreaming. Meat and fat are the easiest foods for humans to digest. They leave the stomach as a liquid within one hour, then get easily and efficiently absorbed and used. Can't say the same for fibre.

holding my three XXL potato chips bags.

manish kongari peanut butter usually is, because it’s made from peanuts and contains no dairy meat or eggs.

Been vegan 4 month lost 3 stone and all I do is eat

Nikel Sutcliff same here.

@manish kongari Peanut butter and regular butter are two different things.

Really happy to hear! I'm on my way there! :)

Great work mate ✌️💚

badass!

Congrats on the weight loss! Don't forget the founder of The American Vegan Society died of a heart attack at age 66.

@@LelandReview Yes so because 1 person died early as a vegan that means we should all discount ALL the benefits of this way of eating. Got it

Thank you for sharing..spread your stories :)

@@pjjmsn there's over 200 days in 7mths

@@pjjmsn lol, the maths r belong to none one. Let's see, 7 months...12 days in a month equals 84 days. Perfect maths.

@@aaajjworm my bad

@@aaajjworm I like the zero wing reference!

I had not realised thank you for pointing it out

i feel this lol

Mike obviously eats ALL the colors

"that vegan guy everyone hates" 😂 awesome name

Same, in fact I was so focused on the ethical reasons that the weight loss completely took me by surprise. I have always been focused on homemade, healthy food, but the keto zeitgeist had me certain that the emphasis on beans and grains was going to make me fat. Not even close. That's when I got really into Barnard, Esselstyn etc. Non-restrictive, plant-based, whole-foods veganism has been an easy win win situation from the get go.

@@jhunt5578 thank you :)

I didn't go vegan at all. never will. i love cheese too much.

Lean GroundBeef Good news! Vegan cheeses are getting more and more awesome. My husband, who still eats meat and dairy, really likes the Follow Your Heart Smoked Gouda, Go Veggie cream cheese, and anything by Miyokos and Kite Hill. It’s all lower in saturated fat and contains no cholesterol. 🤩 Stay far, far away from Daiya anything. I haven’t found anything they make to resemble anything but plastic. 🤢

Hench Herbivore you did get incredible results on that cut. Confirmed.

Did you eat as much bread as you wanted to?

Did you eat calorie dense foods like dates? And how much legumes did you eat on average?

AmetReloads Then you are probably looking at the wrong examples🤷🏻‍♀️ I see healthy lean vegans everywhere.

subscribed going to check out your stuff later.

mariana jimenez same! Eat enough I still indulge in the mock meats and shite...but you just go to your natural body weight. Vegan for the animals 🙌

I’m the same height as you , even going vegan I never got below 125 pounds. Now I’m at 130 but exercise (strength training and kickboxing) 5 says a week. Can I ask how you restricted your calories? I was most successful cutting out carbs but we all know that’s not the best way

that's amazing!

It was the whole foods that led to your health improvement. It could have been vegan, vegetarian, or omnivorous. Doesn't matter.

@@dragonchr15, if not vegan, you're still partaking in the slaughter of innocent animals.

How scientific if not studied for a long time ?

Debraval Reyes it’s still scientific. It’s just a start. Every huge discovery starts somewhere...

@@debravalreyes2033 The method is what recommends it as "scientific," and it's certainly more scientific than bro science and anecdota.

@@brioche8123 The discovery here is that it's the fats produced by bacteria that make you feel satiated. Is that actually vegan? Have vegan scientists discovered yet that all herbivores live on mostly fats (~70%) that are produced by bacteria in their digestive tracts?

@@tamcon72 Observational study is a collection of anecdotes, isn't it?

Awesome! You should start a channel!

Wow! You really did change your love and also set a good example for your family! All the best to you all!

Thanks, apparently I'm more French than I thought according to my ancestry test so I wanted to embrace it XD

ancestry test is a scam

@@SNinjaQK proof?

Firefly hahahahha

Clearly my upvote was for "let them eat cake, unless they are vegan... then f*** em"

Hi!! I’m 17 too and I have been vegan for four days now and I don’t know what to eat every day lol. Can you give me some tips? I’m so happy for you because I plan on doing the same thing. I really want to continue being vegan😊

@@dianadashkov5824 I relate lol I had no idea what I was doing when I started out 😂 you can make almost any dish vegan and there's tons of recipes online for a lot of those. Being vegan really has opened me up to foods I wouldn't have otherwise tried, like quinoa, tofu, nutritional yeast, plant milks, lentils, etc. I started tracking my nutrition on MyFitnessPal (I had to adjust the macro ratio though to 70% carbs, 20% protein, 10% fat. You can adjust it differently if you'd like). Its useful for seeing if you're not eating enough of something, like iron for example. You can log your weight too, and it's cool to see a physical graph of your progress. I also have Dr. Gregers Daily Dozen app, which helps with eating whole plant foods. When I was transitioning, I ate a lot of replacement meat though. And tbh I still eat them time to time when I need a quick easy frozen dinner equivalent lol Make sure that you're taking a B-12 supplement too (not sure if you've heard this). I'm really glad you're on Mic's channel because he has a lot of great videos about nutrition. Sometimes I still don't know what to eat, but baked tofu, pasta with marinara sauce (I make it with lentil pasta, but regular noodles work), homemade vegan Mac n cheese, and teriyaki stir fry are few things I personally eat a lot. They're pretty quick and easy. Meanwhile, I'm happy to have finally met someone my age! Good luck!! (: 💚🌱

@@dianadashkov5824 Eat Rest move Another good vegan youtube for recipes, God bless you always:)

ladysmithrose hey, I’ve been vegan for almost five mo this now and I’ve really figured things out. Thank you for you advice though and God bless you too! 💜

wait this is literally me, i went vegan in may as well, i’m 17, 5’2 and was 180 lbs. i’m 155 lbs now and aim to lose 20 more :)

Same here.

I've always said vegans have great skin as health shows through the skin and hair!

So true my skin look so good to me as im vegan and drink lots of water and my hair line is flourishing

xantippa that’s spectacular! Congrats!

Can I ask you how long it took you to reach that amount lost?

@@lellyt2372 I started eating mainly wholefood plantbased on 11/2017. I'm currently down 95lbs. I'm not really losing much anymore since I've reached a healthy weight.

@@xantippa that's amazing and such a sustainable way to get to a healthy weight. I don't want to sound condescending but, well done and congratulations 💜 I have at least 84lbs to lose (about 70lbs to cross into a healthy BMI according to my doctor) Thank you for taking the time to answer. I'm genuinely happy for you, and anyone that gets their health and body to where they want it, ESPECIALLY in a wfpb lifestyle xx

And the best part is that your username is Soy Boy! Own it, love it!! Keep up the great work. 💪🏻

Soy Boy, thats great that youre eating healthy and you feel so mush better, it was a smart move!🤗

I have mixed feelings about this, because we women are really hard on ourselves, and it's really important to love yourself no matter your size...... But at the same time, I've been listening to The Pleasure Trap by Drs Lisle and Goldhamer... And they talk about how one reason we humans feel pressure to conform to society's standards is that it's one way our body is trying to motivate us to become more "ideally" healthy.... Which I totally get. Promoting health over beauty is key. Each of our perfectly healthy bodies will be different... We won't all look like models. But our bodies don't want to be overweight and unhealthy, and I agree that telling everyone "fat is okay" is pretty dangerous... Because that isn't healthy.

JigokuShoujo543 this could be random, but if you shop at thrift stores you can find decent clothes for bargain prices. I almost never buy new jeans for instance.

Its because you are slowly starving.

But you’ll save millions on health care!

@Sherlock Holmes omg you even have a vegan as avatar ....

I truly believe you would've had the same result with switching to high quality healthy meats and organ meats, along with some vegetables. I'm afraid that scientifically, high quality animal based foods (aka not mcdonals burgers) are packed with not only far more nutrients and vitamins per 100 grams (INCLUDING SOME NOT AVAILABLE IN PLANTS), those vitamins are also something your omnivore body *can actually absorb 100%*, while the vitamins available in plants have a very low conversion rate (look that up, i beg of you) sometimes as with vitamin A; as low as 4%. If i were you and trying to recover from an junk food diet and eating disorder, I'd at least research meat its benefits and possibly even look into a paleo inspired diet. Otherwise, you're looking at a swift crash from deficiencies a few years down the line. Please look into the many ex-vegan videos available here on youtube, their tragic stories are horrifying. And remember, if your period goes, your teeth will soon follow.

😂🤣

I want my tombstone spelled correctly...

😅😅😅😅😅👌🏽💚✅

Same!!

There's such a thing as vegan cake, btw

Thank you for this comment, I'm vegan and a binge eater on the road to recovery. Vegan does not necessarily equal slim and healthy. I'm doing better, more time between binges and just forgiving myself when i slip! My vegan lifestyle does help heaps though. Lots of love your way!!!!😘

Love the comment! I always really struggled with my weight, but also a bunch of pre-existing conditions. Veganism made a lot of those better, but it’s just not a cure-all, and especially if you have other issues, it might not help you with weight management at all. Whenever I get comments about how vegans are really skinny, I feel sorta ashamed, like I‘m doing it wrong. And that’s just bullshit.

damenaoo me tooo!!

Same!!

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@@naa7ff Get out of here loser.

Same!

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jbidwell605 you dropped nuts, too?

@@lavondadebrito1178 yes, but I've since added a few walnuts / almonds back in. Just a few; it's hard to stop once you start eating them.

jbidwell605 so true! I just ate a few too many five minutes ago! Lol

lucky for me. I hate nuts (except for organic peanut butter) and even then I can survive off one tbsp a week.

izeizei 28.25

Lol 28!!

Thank you :D

​@@Tiredmum What part of "approx." don't you understand?

@@catfish9539 ​ What part of "approx." don't you understand?

Similar story. I eat less fat and less calories overall though.

N G what is pbwf

Wandering Not Lost PBWF/WFPB means “whole-food, plant-based.”

Ha ha, yes...I watch each of his videos at least twice and rewind parts of interest if I still didn't catch it all. I like that though! It holds my attention.

i watch every video in 1,5x lol

Training Tall you just need to remember about muscles’ weight sometimes high BMI means that someone is a hunky man not necessarily fat.

_"plant foods are more nutritionally dense and less calorically dense”_ As compared to what?

are you insane. meat it's more nutritionally dense and calorically dense if you cut out literally all vegetables. grow a brain

@@dallassegno One cannot grow a brain without cholesterol. Literally.

Factoring in bio-availability of different vitamin forms, higher-welfare animal foods are much higher in micronutrients than plant foods. A good example is vitamin K2, which is immediately accessible by the body and only exists in large quantities in liver and fermented animal foods (and natto). Another example is omega 3s, which are only found in their immediately usable forms in animal foods. The conversion rate of fatty acids in things like walnuts and flax seeds to actual omega 3s by the human body has never been conclusively proven, but most studies estimate that it is very low. One more example here, vitamin D3, although produced by the body in sunlight, is only found in its final form in animal foods. The forms of vitamin D found in plant foods must undergo a conversion process in the body which is not 100% efficient (don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but you can probably look it up) On another note, most plant foods (excluding legumes, tubers, and grains) simply do not provide the calories needed for a person to survive. Before the advent of agriculture (i.e., the majority of our existence as a species), calorie-rich plant foods would have been hard to come by, and when they were available, would have required a great deal of effort to process. e.g., digging for tubers, boiling, and mashing them; or gathering enough wild wheat berries to make a decent amount of flour, grinding them up for hours by hand, then cooking them. The one plant food I concede that we may have eaten in large quantities would be fruits, as they can be a lot easier to gather, but only when in season. If you're interested in the nutritional profile of higher-welfare animal foods, www.naehrwertrechner.de/ is the most accurate nutrition database I've found. They actually test for vitamin C in animal foods, while the FDA does not, and surprise surprise, animal foods contain more than enough vitamin C to meet your daily requirements.

It's amazing how even simple foods taste so good, after being away from the flavor-strong, fatty, oily foods of my past. A pile of strawberries is awesome and plenty sweet now, but not when my palate was still used to ice cream and cake. People: Go vegan and your palate will quickly 'soften' to appreciate and crave the NATURAL flavors of NATURAL food.

Although I cannot relate to the weight thing, my eczema has also improved GREATLY with a vegan diet.

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Shubham Jain Veganism is not a diet. It’s an ethical position, but diets can either be classified as vegan or non-vegan.

My plasma is so clear now, as a vegan, that the donation center nurses were holding up paper behind the bag and showing each other that they could see and read the words through it. I guess animal products really DO sludge up your blood. Three years vegan now and I also don't regret the decision.

@@PeterC3400 amazing!

I will always picture Propitionate as two parts of the transverse colon talking to each other.

innerrevolution1 LOL yes

Same! Even when cooking all my food from scratch and no oil.

I hear you, I am 58 vegan and an awesome cook, I have to count calories or I gain, I love all the delicious vegan food. Oil is the devil.

Me too!

I don't! Then again, I don't really care.

Same

Josh Spiv you can do it!

Go zero carb when this fails you.

Me too 2 weeks in inch loss is 🙌🏽

There is always support in Facebook groups! I follow a couple vegan (and don't tell Mike but also other diet forums - never ketos or that, just for tips and other ways to lose weight along with a whole food plant based diet, like 16:8 and 5:2). Have you heard of Forks over Knives? Great recipes and loads of support there. Good luck in your journey. And definitely, kick out the Dr. Pepper and maybe substitute it with fresh orange juice!

Of course you’re not going to feel satiated on just veggies. You need to eat starch, like potatoes or rice, and some legumes with a meal to feel full. With legumes you’ll feel full for hours upon hours.

I'd suggest adding more starches, whole grains, nuts and seeds in your diet to feel more satisfied. Throw some avocado/guacamole in your salads as well :) And cut the sugary drinks

For the sugar problem....add 5- 10 pieces of fruit a day. Bananas apples oranges grapes watermelon cantaloupe honeydew mangos pineapples pears plums tangerines. Get in the habit of eating those right after a vegetable meal to top off your satiation. Second festivals are not going to make you feel satisfied, you need to start eating you're vegetables with beans and rice potatoes whole wheat pasta end peanut butters and seeds. For fat Cravings switch to eating peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread and beans with rice. Do not eat white bread as it's processed and gives you cravings.

I think you crave fats and sugars because they are highly satisfying to our brain. They are calorie dense and our body likes to hoard calories because our fat stores help us survive when food is scarce. But we don't go through times of scarcity in our modern world, we just keep eating fats and sugars. Eventually, we see the negative effects of them in our bodies. Diabetes. Heart disease. Weaning ourselves off those foods and supplementing with healthy choices like nuts and avocados and whole fruits will mean eventually you can get similar pleasure responses from more wholesome foods. In addition, because veggies are so low in calories, whole grains can be very filling. I personally find a bowl of oatmeal, with tiny about of dried fruit or a lot of fresh fruit, almond milk (or any milk alternative), and a sprinkle of nuts and maybe a pinch of ground flax keeps me full til lunch better than when I used to get hamburger fast food meals for breakfast. And I mean like a cup/cup and a half of oatmeal, but I'm 5".

courag1 Love the part about asking people where they get their fiber hahaha!! I also love to put potatoes and greens 🥬 together and sometimes throw steamed veggies in. I never make dressings cuz I’m too lazy. I’ve also recently discovered that I love adding salsa in the mix! Or, taco sauce! Yum! My husband doesn’t eat the way I do either. He will occasionally but not most of the time. I do still have to cook him meat, unless he has time to do it himself. But, we don’t buy store bought meat. He only eats venison which I know is still killing an animal. I hate it but if he’s gonna eat meat I would rather it be one that has been free it’s whole life!

@@kimberlyearly8918 What decided me to go entirely vegan was two-fold: I wanted to illustrate to my husband how to lose weight which I believed would work but had not tried it: the Dr. McDougall plan is mostly what I follow; secondly I saw videos on how animals are slaughtered. The idea that there is anything humane about it is the first lie compounded with interest of how good it is and then they age the beef (means they don't get it to market until it is decomposing supposedly to make it tender -- so it is already being worked upon by microbes so even when you chew it when cooked, the rotting process makes it more tender.) Is it any wonder that eating meat can cause cancer particularly when we get older and our digestion gets more sluggish, that we just are soaking our internal organs in dead things, we are not going to possibly be healthy. It totally killed my heart holding my dogs paw when out of mercy, we had him put down because he had cancer beginning in the liver and he was suffering so much that there has no quality of life for him. But this is how I realized, if I am a compassionate human being that I should feel about all animals. Every time I took a bite of meat, our dog Jake was in my mind. So though I rarely ate meat, it was not that hard to give it up. I always thought I had no self-control with food, but I think some of my huge appetite that I had was hormones and growth hormones in the meat which end up affecting us also. So what a growth hormone does to the animals is increase their appetite so to fatten them up. If we eat that, that we will get an appetite without and off switch should be a no-brainer, but when that stopped, I wondered why it did not occur to me now. I have not difficulty not eating after dinner so there are usually 12 hours or more before I eat breakast. So my usual was to snack and snack after dinner. But with how meats slow down the digestion and nothing goes out of the stomach until the hardest thing to digest is ready, the body is still hungry, not getting the calories the tasty meal provided, another reason for snacking. With being vegan my food digests much more quickly and have energy and don't feel tired when I get up either. I am 65 and thinking that any weight loss was possible was hope against hope. But I did get my husband interested and he is becoming more interested as he has kissed his blood pressure meds goodbye and he has lost 17 lbs. He has a good deal more to lose, but he has to want to be healthy. After his Prostate Surgery for cancer, he has been left somewhat incontinent and this is still the case after one year. His doctor told him that men with a big belly don't get over incontinence very often. So I told my husband, then you just will have to lose weight and the pressure of the weight will be gone so you can be continent again. He does not understand how low fat vs the high fat diet he's been on is also contributive to his getting cancer again. It is a source of unhealthy calories, but I made him a nearly non-fat meal last night which was soft tacos with Morning Star Black Bean burgers, rice, steamed broccoli and carrots. I made fresh salsa and he actually tried it. He ate it all with relish. Tonight I have planned to make my version of eggplant parmesan as I have the vegan shredded cheese and he's got enough enzymes now that eating my way does not give him diarrhea. He got me a dehydrator for Christmas so I tried making dehydrated apple slices. They came out perfectly. I refrigerate them when they are finished and then smacked them with a wooden mallet and they shattered so the crumbles he had over his cereal. I've got him off all sodas and sugar. He has Stevia in his coffee and nothing else which is sweet. Ah to get him off of mayonaise or get him to stop the eggs. Dairy and cheese and ice cream don't hold a candle to margarine or frying eggs. At least he knows I love him. But survivors of abuse as children have a world of trouble loving themselves as adults. His last parent died in 2018 so maybe he can let that go now. It is now his time to shine. Have you watched videos by Dr. Milton Mills on why humans are herbivores and not carnivores or omnivores? He talks about that we take our fruit and vegetable eating to eating animals, wanting only the most perfect animal. This is not what carnivores do. So we leave behind the sick and kill the doe who just had fawns and the fawns die without their mother to raise them. It is wholesale slaughter and we are losing species after species on both the land and the sea, in rivers and in lakes. People used to have religious faith to teach them to love, what there is except be as selfish as you can and get all you can and not give a hoot if there is anything left even for your own children and grandchildren is what in essence people have learned from Darwinism. It did not change animal behavior but made mankind even more ravenous for meat. So much they eat it now that the rates of cancer are skyrocketing. We need to remember that we are herbivores and not see animals as our food or there will not be any left. We cannot convince them all, some are just that rabid, but if we can convince some, perhaps there is hope for the world, otherwise we will kill the entire planet.