Need help with a gluten-free, yeast-free, soy-free, vegetarian (prefer vegan) diet!?

Question

The name says it all! In the past 5 years, I have put on about 30 pounds that I would like to take back off. I know that a main point is that I don't get enough protein to help my muscles properly restore after exercising (which I could actually do more off as well). I can't have gluten, yeast or soy. Although I can sort of tolerate milk and eggs, I do have a sensitivity to them as well, just not as severe as the others. I don't mind them in small amounts. Most of my diet is high-carb foods.

Help!!!!

Answer 1

check out this article:

http://www.mummums.com/2008/09/Baby-Nutr...

Answer 2

Sorry about your soy, yeast, and gluten allergy. There are plenty of vegan options that are soy, yeast, gluten and animal free!

Instead of soy milk you can rice milk, hemp milk, almond milk, oat milk, etc.

Instead of Boca burgers, Morningstar and tofu you can try seitan and soy free burgers such as some of Amy's products, and homemade made with portobello mushrooms, chickpeas, vegetables, lentils, and black beans.

Soy-free foods: Some good foods that are soy and animal free are fruits, vegetables, beans (-soy), seeds (flax, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, hemp, etc), nuts, pulses, chickpea, seaweed, lentils, & vegetable and seed oils, plant milks (-soy), meat alternatives that do not contain soy. You can cook food as well just substitute or remove what you are allergic to. Amy’s Kitchen has good vegan soy free entrees. So Delicious and Rice Dream make frozen deserts that use rice and coconut milk instead of soy. Veganomicon is a great cookbook that includes meals that is soy-free. As you can veganize almost any recipe, you can also make any recipe soy free, just substitute for sf substations. (i.e chickpeas, potato or beans instead of tofu, hemp or rice milk instead of soy, etc.) And at the 'Magical Loaf Studio' you can make vegan sf burgers and loafs with your choice of ingredients:

http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_studio...

Some sites to check out:

www.vegweb.com/ (many recipes that are soy and gluten free, just search)

http://veganpeace.blogspot.com/2008/03/v... (just -the soy and gluten and yeast foods)

www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/ (-soy products)

http://soyfreevegan.blogspot.com/

www.vegfamily.com/health/vegan-food-al...

Recipes: http://veganpeace.blogspot.com/2007/08/v... (-the soy and gluten recipes)

Nutrition: http://veganpeace.blogspot.com/2008/02/v... (just -the soy and gluten foods)

http://glutenfreesoyfreevegan.blogspot.c...

http://stanford.wellsphere.com/wellmix36...

http://www.bookofyum.com/blog/recipes (look at tags for gf/wf and sf)

http://glutenfreevegan.wordpress.com/

www.vegfamily.com/health/gluten-free-i...

http://glutenfreesoyfreevegan.blogspot.c...

www.fatfreevegan.com/gluten-free/index...

Answer 3

There are several great sites out there with lots of support and great recipes.

Fat Free Vegan has a lot of gluten and soy free recipes and most are yeast free too (usually without gluten there's little reason for yeast).

http://www.fatfreevegan.com/gluten-free/...

Then this site has a lot of Gluten Free and Soy Free as well as Dairy & Egg Free recipes and ideas:

http://glutenfreesoyfreevegan.blogspot.c...

I love this site but not so sure about the soy-freeness of it. There's bound to be some things though because it is gluten-free:

http://glutenfreehippie.blogspot.com/

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As far as protein, it's in nearly all foods except refined sugars and some alcohols (even beer has some). There are lots of high-protein plant-based foods but there are a lot of myths around protein including the amounts we need (the RDA is actually padded and yet despite that vegetarians still usually get twice that amount) and how harmful excess protein is to us (it is acidic causing calcium to be drawn from our bones to balance the alkalinity of our blood) and unlike calcium, excess protein is not stored but is processed through and is hard on our kidneys, and gall bladder among others.

http://www.soystache.com/plant.htm#Sourc...

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/p...

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09...

There are plenty of vegan athletes including bodybuilders:

http://wweek.com/editorial/3436/11241/

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/

Answer 4

Well I'm a vegan and tbh, when I went vegan I *gained* a bunch of weight!  Even though I was mostly gluten and soy free.  I discovered so many incredible foods that I didn't know existed before (raw cashew cheese, rawlafel, energy balls, rice milk, almond milk, gluten-free mini cinamin buns OMG... you guys know what I'm talking about).  I even got addicted to cashews.

So, I cut nuts and most seeds (with the exception of my hemp seed protein powder which btw is a complete source of protein and most easily processed by your body but be careful as other posters have said, too much protein is bad for you - I also still eat a tiny bit of flax and sesame sometimes).  Since doing that a few weeks ago, I have stopped putting on weight and have begun to drop it again (not like 2 pounds per day but at a normal rate).  I simply don't keep nuts in the house and so I eat the other good stuff that's there, like fresh berries spread over rice cakes, chick peas made into whatever, fruits (with the exception of avocados and bananas), awesome bean salads with celery bits... I make energy balls with dates and buckwheat flour and cinnamon and carob and whatever else I feel like putting in at the time... it's quick and easy.  I only eat this in the early part of the day because the dates are naturally so sugary.  Raisins are also good for taking care of sweet tooth and super healthy, try different kinds because some taste so much better than others.  Strawberries are also incredibly good for you.  Experiment with strawberries, carob, cacao, cinnamon, buckwheat flour, quinoa flour (quinoa is technically a seed, low fat, easy to digest, gluten-free), whatever else you think would make a top-notch combo with strawberries.  I made some things that taste and feel so good it's hard to believe there's absolutely nothing bad in it.

a tip for salad dressing and other spreads is to combine fresh garlic and lemon.  you don't need oil to make the dressing taste good.  try adding a tiny (tiny!!) bit of raisins to the dressing, I found this gives it a really wonderful tang.  I really enjoyed this type of dressing on chopped green cabbage salad, among others.

Right now I'm eating nori and buckwheat rice cakes with a modification of hummus that I made with chickpeas, garlic, lemon, and a bunch of onion.  It doesnt nead any oil and tastes quite nice.  I've learned to give up oil... after a few weeks of not using it, I've gotten over it.  I even make hummus without it now... chickpeas, garlic, lemon, maybe some water.  Again stick in a tiny bit of date or raisin to see what happens with the flavor.  Do lots of experimentation and get yourself a blender or magic bullet or something!  It's worth it, I use mine about 8 times per day.

Coconut oil is something to look into.  I've tasted it and it was wonderful but haven't bought it yet (I plan to).  I've heard that it's the healthiest of oils, can be raw, and actually helps with digestion and is easy to burn off.  Make sure to get a high quality one.  Not coconut milk though, coconut oil.  You could make some delicious green curries.

I hope this helps!

edit:  carbs and natural sugars are good for you but try to consume them mostly earlier in the day and get in some exercise after that so that you can *use* them.  Go dancing, biking, whatever, it can be fun :)  Eat bean salads and veggies more later in the day.

Whatever you do don't starve yourself, it will just cause your metabolism to slow way down and you'll eventually crack and eat a whole ton of stuff and gain weight, or you'll keep starving and get problems with your organs.

Also, it looks like eating things raw (i.e. sprout your own chickpeas for your hummus) is better for losing weight because you get more full on raw foods than non-raw foods.  And as we know, the best tasting stuff in the world is also raw :D

Get a dehydrator if you can afford it (I'm still saving up for mine), excaliber is the best one, and make your own raw crackers and stuff.

Answer 5

Have you heard of the author Erik Marcus? He writes very informative

books about the vegan lifestyle. I am a vegetarian, and a good thing to do after you work out, is drink orange juice, like pure oj, not with anything else, its works out because of the high calorie content. My email is [e-mail], if you would like to keep in touch.

How long have you been a vegetarian? Some other good fruits are obviously fresh fruit and vegetarian. Have you tried drinking rice milk instead of soymilk?

Answer 6

Although, this is probably pretty obvious, if you really want to put the weight off, you should consider looking up raw food recipes. Most of them are vegan, and a lot of good information is out there from people like David Wolfe and Gabriel Cousens. There's all sorts of different recipes you can get from just googling "raw recipes."

Good Luck and I hope this helped!