Low carbohydrate vegan diet?

Question

Hi, I want to go on a low [as possible] carbohydrate diet that is suitable for vegans, with a menu plan, either online or if someone here has followed this diet and could give me an outline of suitable foods and/or meal suggestions.

Thanks a lot :)

Answer 1

stay away from noodles and bread, stock up on the F&V! (fruits and veggies)

look at the nutrition facts on the back and opt for low carb substitutes

Answer 2

Quinoa is very good, lots of minerals and vitamins and good supplement for vegans, even for a low carb diet.

Answer 3

My healthiest, leanest, most fit vegan friend eats rice, - wild and basmatti - all she wants, and whole grains for breads.

I agree with the earlier comment that excercise is as important as cutting fat and carbs.

She's in her late 30's, but you would think early 20's, she looks/feels great.

Answer 4

Why?  I will assume due to excess fat that you want to get rid of.  Correct?  Otherwise the diet has no point.

First of all, you should find out what a "carb" actually is and how it is measured then you will start to see just how silly the carb diet is from beginning to end.

First, if you read that silly Nutritional Facts label on your food, carbs are measured by basically burning something and measuring the amount of energy given off in the form of heat.  As you can probably guess, our bodies do not break food down in this method therefore rendering the "carb" numbers moronic and useless.

Next, the whole idea of the low carb diet is to make a person thinner by removing starches from the diet and forcing the body to starve and thus use emergency fat storage as energy.    Basically, you start to eat yourself.  This sounds great, because all of your excess fat is disappearing.  But, your metabolism is being screwed up -- you are lowering your metabolism.  That means, that you are teaching your body to store your food as fat.

Now, what happens when all of your fat is gone?  Your body will continue to look for things to eat... such as your bones... tissue, whatever it can to survive.  Your liver and other organs will become stressed with a back-up of toxins etc. (especially if you eat animal products). So, since you are starving yourself of carbs, something we NEED to function, if you ever decide to eat normally again, once your body takes what it needs to function, it will store the rest even faster than before.  That means, you will become fatter faster than you did before.  see?

So, how do you become thin the healthy way?  Well, you simply want to try to raise your metabolism, right?  To teach your body to use the food you eat for energy instead of storing it for emergency purposes or storing it in times of excess.  Exercise will do this. Exercise will raise your metabolism.  Exercise will teach your body to not store your food as excess fat.  Exercise.  You will notice about 100 other benefits from exercise too.

What you want to avoid in your diet, are the so called simple carbs.  The unwhole carbs. The processed carbs.  White flour, white sugar (brown sugar is just white sugar with molasses added, just as bad),... basically you want to focus on eating whole foods.  Unprocessed foods or foods that are not processed so much.  Whole grains, whole grain flours, unprocessed sugar (or no sugar at all), fruits, vegetables, legumes, beans, ...

I realize I am not answering your question, but I hope this has educated you and that you will reconsider the low carb diet and focus yourself on exercise and whole foods instead.

Answer 5

The lowest I've seen for a vegan diet is 40/30/30 (carb/protein/fat), and it's Brendan Brazier's thrive diet meal plan using Vega supplements.

Here's a 7-day sample meal plan:

http://sequelnaturals.com/vega/resources...

Answer 6

hnn

thats difficult and a bit dangerous...///

i thought vegans were preety much healthy anyway,.as long as staying away from too much sugars and flavourings..msg?? ///

More soy bean products??

tofu~~~

Answer 7

Don't even try-

Although possible with a little bit of protein blending, combine with regular low-carb veggies, you'll find the choices entirely too limiting.

Low Carb diet is more of a lifestyle; something you can live with for a pretty long time. There are not enough combinations of veggies that will satisfy protein needs and still be low carb (20 to 40 Carbs total for the day equals a small bowl of garbanzo beans and some celery).

Also the original premise of Low Carb diet is that humans by design are meat-eaters. For 250,000 years humans ate meat (fish, rabbits, wooly mammoths, etc, for breakfast, lunch and dinner), only occaissionally eating apples, roots, grains, and the rare treat of honey. It's only been the past 5000 years that humans have cultivated grains and eating a grain-based carb diet. This is not enough time to affect evolutionary change. Are bodies are still 'cavemen/cavewomen' so too much sugar, and carbs are detrimental. Look at indigenous people (Eskimos, Am. Indians, Pacific Islanders, etc...) These groups traditionally live their lives eating fish, whale blubber, buffalo meat and are very healthy. It's not until grains and sugars are introduced that they [[we]] show signs of de-evolution such as diabeties, teeth decay, obesity, etc.

Anyways, you could be temporarily successful as an ovo-vegan, or entirely successful by encorporating fish, eggs, moderate dairy and veggies. Good luck