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Whole Food Plant Based

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A place for people who want to eat more fruits and vegetables and less animal products and processed foods.

This includes adding more vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts/seeds. While eliminating meat, dairy, eggs, and fish. It is also avoids added salt, oil and sugar as much as possible

We are not looking for perfect adherence to any one particular eating style of WFPB.

Posts should be about eating whole food plant based foods most of the time.

Recipes should not include animal products.

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Hooray it works well and it is effortless, if you can stick with mostly eating plant foods. I did 20-45 minutes of cardio or HIIT type training 3 of 4 days a week. Not to increase the rate of weight loss but just to start moving again and building muscle. Light weights and high reps because I am starting again at beginner levels.

Diet: Mostly WFPB-SOS all the time. Had 3 meals during this time that didn't follow guidelines but immediately got back on track with the next meal.

Bad News... This is me losing the same weight I have lost before.

2016 I went mostly vegan and mostly junk food vegan. Gained 50+ pounds until 2019 and went WFPB. After losing 80 pounds I decided I could limit myself and slowly allow Vegan Junk back in..... and that was a mistake. That once a month treat turned into every 14 days, weekly, twice a week, daily, 3 times a day. And before I knew it, I had spiraled back out of control and was eating anything and everything. One excuse turned into 5 and I just stopped worrying about it for another 2 years and gained all the weight back.

This time I am trying much harder to limit sugar, salt, oil, and other processed foods because they ultimately are what allows me to "cheat" and I am only cheating myself and my progress. The food and the side effects are never worth it and I end up being sick and bloated and angry at myself.

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