Im a vegetarian and im over weight?

Question

i eat a lot of carbs, mostly pasta, and sweets, and a lot of fruit. i need to lose some weight. right now im about 210 and 5'7''. i need to lose about 50 lbs, by around christmas, im joining the military and if i dont get the weight off i cant ship out. i dont eat tooo too bad, so idk why im so over weight. but i walk a lot and swim everyday. but anyways

i wake up and drink some water and then go for a 30 minute walk then i come home i eat breakfast 4 egg whites and a slice of cheese 3/4 oz. some bananas and apple sauce or cottage cheese and straw berrys then for lunch i eat an egg sandwich on wheat and for snacks i eat lots of granola bars or nuts or a bowl of pasta then i eat a bowl of vegetable soup and for dinner i eat bread and pasta and veggies and for desert i eat some ice cream or a fruit smoothie and then before bed i eat a cucumber and a cup of yogurt i dont drink soda, just water. and sometimes tea or apple juice. and i usually go for a 30 to 45 minute walk 2 times a day or i walk for 15 minutes swim for 30 then walk again before bed. idk how i can be so over weight. can some one help me?

Answer 1

quite simply, lessen your consumption. Pan Metron Ariston. ancient greek meaning everything in moderation. i think you ingest too many carbs in relation to whole vegetables. lessen your intake of granola bars. eat because your hungry and dont stuff yourself. dont just eat for fun. stop ingesting sweets, and lessen but dont elimiate desert. the desert you do eat should be as chemical less as possible. its possible you just have a slow metabolism.  i think the exess

carbohydrates may be the route of your problem. however, there is no way to gage how quickly you yourself will lose weight, everyone is different.

the ancients knew what they are talking about. whens the last time you saw a statue of a fat Greek god?

Answer 2

Cut overall consumption and alter your diet to include less carbs and fats and a better balance of carbs/proteins like rice and beans or tofu instead of dairy.  Walking doesn't burn nearly the amount of calories you're consuming (1 mile or 20 minutes = 75 calories or 2 bite sized chocolates).  Maybe change to running, biking, or doing an aerobic workout of some kind.

From experience the drill seargants will not allow you to maintain a veg diet in basic training, but once you're through that the military will respect your vegetarianism.

And PS to some other responders lacto-ovo vegetarians eat milk and eggs. Vegans do not.

Answer 3

try adding up how many calories you are actually consuming in a day. "some bananas" in addition to all the other items you eat for breakfast sounds like a lot of food, also how many granola bars do you eat per day? a fruit smoothie CAN be high in calories, but that all depends on how much you are drinking. at least you are active. compare your daily calorie intake to what you burn...(everydayhealth.com is one website that has a tool to help you calculate and track your weightloss).

Answer 4

If you cut all dairy esp cheese, etc Actually just go Vegan. In two to three weeks you will lose an incredible amount of fat. Stay off the fruits, bread and sugars for a month. Also, do not eat 3 hours before going to bed. Drink lots of water. This plan works. I did it my self. After 14 days I went down two pant sizes. Discipline!

Answer 5

If all that weight is fat and not muscle... EXERCISE.  RUN don't walk.

Get the bloody h**l into shape -- there's no way the military will take anyone that is so out of shape, unless it's to throw you at the front lines; cannon fodder.  Basic training is all about RUNNING not walking. You don't go up stairs either, you climb over walls.  You need energy to fuel you exercise, so carbs are fine... but eat a whole foods diet -- no sugar, no white flours, no processed foods, no pop, chips, candy... quit the junk, and get running, cycling, climbing, chinups, pushups, squats, whatever.... just do it and do it fast and hard.  You need to get your metabolism up, and to do that, you need to push yourself hard, and keep going and then do it again and again and do it again the next day.  Time yourself to do it faster. Get a friend to time you and count your reps etc. and cheer you on.  And maybe they'll knock some common sense into you regarding the military.

Dump all of that dairy -- cheese is like a block of fat!  Cottage cheese is gross -- don't eat that c**p, even if you think it tastes good, really, your taste buds are dysfunctional... it's gross.

Answer 6

It could be the bars because they are quite high in energy. you could find out how many calories you should be having a day based on your height and activity level and count the calories you consume but dont get too obsessive with it

Answer 7

"i eat a lot of carbs, mostly pasta, and sweets, and a lot of fruit."

That is why you are fat and why you will remain fat unless you change your diet. The high carbohydrate intake is spiking your insulin levels and telling your body to store fat.

The quickest and most effective way to lose weight are the low carb, high protein and fat diets like South Beach, Paleo and the Atkins diet. Keep the nuts, eggs and cheese. Ditch the carbs and the sugar.

There's also the fact that the military is not an easy place to be a vegetarian.

Lottery Man: You are either clueless or a liar. Beans and grains are a recent addition to the human diet from the last 10,000 years or so. Beans are toxic unless cooked and grains are indigestible unless cooked. For the previous 2.5 million years of evolution, humans ate some fruit, root vegetables and a lot of meat.

Answer 8

First of all I don't consider you a Vegetarian, cheese and egg's (don't care if their whites, it's still an egg). The chickens and Cow's were tortured just as badly as when they were sliced up for meat. The Dairy and egg's are even more contaminated than the meat itself from all the Salmonella, puss, growth hormones, ect...

Dairy is one of the most fattening products that is sold, so to start off cut dairy out of your life. I don't like the fact that your eating egg's but they aren't fattening so I suppose you don't need to stop eating those. Your whole entire day seems to be made up of Dairy, bread and granola products have dairy in it. As I said cut Dairy out of your life, then all you have is vegetables, beans, and rice as your main source of food, the food life intended us to eat. Becoming a complete Vegetarian has the benefit of weight loss, and even though you can eat other fattening products like Salt&Vinegar chips, and Tortilla chips you will still lose weight. Eating Chips constantly will eventually get boring and force you to explore more exotic foods.  

Answer 9

you need to eat more leafy greens and less of the processed foods, like white bread, pasta, and granola bars.  more veggies, simple as that.  Forget the fruit smoothie because it's filled with calories you don't need.  Limit your fruit intake to 4, and eat more veggies.  Try to cut back on the eggs and yogurt.  You can also get rid of the cottage cheese.  

Answer 10

uh.. you're  not a vegetarian.

you better read up on this before making any further claims.

if you eat eggs... pasta, ice cream?  holy c**p!   no  wonder you're big as a house...  that's meat!

read your labels and learn what the ingredients are.     you're a meat eater.

betcha that vegetable soup came out of a can?    sorry, that's packed with meat biproducts also.

so much for the vegetarian claim.

how about trying a real vegetarian diet for a change...  maybe then you wouldn't be fat.

here's some examples of what fruits and vegetables are and their contents.

http://www.healthalternatives2000.com/ve...

Answer 11

eggs, cheese, and cottage cheese, yogurt youre not a very strict vegetarian huh?

cut out some of the carbs...youd prolly actually be better off adding fish and lean meats and then taking out some of the carbs, if youre trying to lose weight

and cut out all the sweets...duh

in the army will they cater to your vegetarian diet??? ive always wondered that =]