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I love Appetite for Reduction, a vegan cookbook by Isa Chandra Moscowitz.
I gained 60 pounds being a junk food vegan and now I've lost all of it by trying to eat whole foods and count calories. I still love fries, cookies, bread, pasta, chocolate, etc. I just try to eat healthy most of the time and occasionally indulge. I would suggest using myfitnesspal or a similar app to keep track of calories and macro nutrients.
If you just cut out meat, dairy, eggs, animal products, sugar, processed carbs and soy... Oh Boy! That's a lot all at once and most people who go vegan for health reasons don't stick to the diet because they see it as... well a diet. It's a lifestyle change that involves making an ethical choice at every meal.
Having said that, going vegan was one of the best decisions I've ever made and I've never looked back. Check out Appetite for Reduction . It's full of healthy vegan meals and it lists the nutrition info for each recipe! Good luck :)
I struggled to find something as well, and ended up making my own.
Here's my plan at 1350 kcal per day:
>Daily Meal Schedule
>7:30am - Breakfast 300kcal
>10:30am - Snack 150kcal
>1:30pm - Lunch 300kcal
>4:30pm - Snack 150kcal
>7:30pm - Dinner 450kcal
>Total 1350kcal
Drop fifty kcal each off breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and you've to a perfectly doable meal schedule for 1200kcal per day.
Breakfast examples
Snack examples
Lunch Example
For meal ideas and lo-cal recipes, I highly recommend you check out Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite for Reduction, which is just chock full of thoroughly delicious recipes that will allow you to do wonderful things within a calorie-restriction diet. My favorite recipe is the Cesar Chavez Salad, which makes for a tasty and filling meal. She also has a killer hummus recipe that is only 60kcal per 1/4 cup! Each recipe includes nutrition breakdowns and calorie counts.
Also, I suggest you purchase a food scale, as too often weighing portions is the only way to know for sure that the calorie assumptions you're using are accurate.
Edit: I should add that this approach can be super cheap as well. Just stick with frozen vegetables, nonorganic produce, and bulk dry beans and rice, and you can live for pennies on the dollar compared to what you might otherwise spend.
6-year vegan here. /u/57001 has a good list. I'd add Oh She Glows to the blog list for healthy reasonably tasty things that don't take a lot of weird vegan ingredients. Also, Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite for Reduction was my first vegan cookbook and is still my favorite. It's written as a diet cookbook but the macronutrient breakdown makes it really good for a runner's diet. It's written with a dietician gives you nutrition information on every page. Everything is super easy for weeknight cooking, budget-friendly, and delicious.
Hummus is your best friend. It's a good source of protein and carbs and you can find it everywhere. Very useful when you're traveling some place that's vegan hell. Although, probably pick a less greasy one than Sabra.
And yes, take your B12. A good proportion of omnivores tend to be deficient in it as well so it's not just a vegan thing. You can technically get it through fortified foods, but I would not rely on this. And sublingual or spray is better absorbed by your body than pills.
Happy to answer any other questions you might have.
Earthlings is what made me go vegan, too. (Linked it for others who might be interested in watching it.)
Congrats on the weight loss! I highly recommend Isa Chandra Moskowitz's "Appetite for Reduction," which is a vegan cookbook aimed at weight loss. Her website is great, too.
Good luck with everything!
Not OP, but I highly recommend this book! Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a vegan cookbook rockstar and this is her lower-fat/calorie recipe book. I have cooked almost every single recipe in it and I have yet to find a clunker.
Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz!
Lower calorie/fat recipes from the author of Isa Does It, Vegan With A Vengeance, and Veganomicon!
There are amazing directions on how to assemble the perfect "bowl" combos (1 grain, 1 bean, 1 veg + sauce) and lots of recipes and examples in this book, which I can only recommend. (The "Reduction" in the title is not just about losing weight; this doesn't have to be read as a dieting book, although it's possible to use it that way.) I love Isa's books because they don't use expensive, hard to find ingredients and the recipes always come out perfect.
I recently made some really fabulous Chili-Lime Rubbed Tofu (from Appetite for Reduction ) the other day. Here's the basic recipe for it. It calls for 1tsp of oil, which is all you'd need for the recipe. If you wanted to omit it, you probably could do so without too much trouble.
I served this with sauteed spinach (in garlic and a little lemon juice + water for sautee-- just a smidge), corn kernels, and slices of bell pepper all over some warm brown rice. You could also make it over quinoa and it would be delicious! The marinade in the tofu makes a bit extra after cooking, so you can probably pour it over the bowl and have it be a bit extra flavor. Or, you could top it off with Salsa Fresca (which should naturally have none of the things you're looking to avoid).
Now, that does make for a 1-bowl-per-person meal. I love it, but if you're looking to do something fancier, you certainly can.
These Raspberry Truffle Brownies have no fat. They also can be made using sucanat or another sweetener that isn't sugar. I'm familiar with an eating plan similar to your mom's, and generally the issue is added sugar (with the recognition that special events are special, and you can have an occasional treat).
If she can't have any added sugar, you may want to make some quick banana soft serve, since most "dessert" recipes-- even vegan ones, have generally some oil or some added sugar (maple syrup, agave, etc.). So if you can't do any sweeteners or any added oil, peel and freeze a few bananas. When you're ready to have your dessert, break them into pieces and toss them into the food processor with a bit of non-dairy milk, and a touch of vanilla extract. If you're feeling fancy, you might add peanut butter or cocoa powder. Whiz it together til you get a decent consistency. You may need to scrape the sides down a few times.
Good luck, and enjoy!
Appetite for Reduction is good
https://www.amazon.com/Appetite-Reduction-Filling-Low-Fat-Recipes/dp/1600940498
I can't stop recommending this: http://www.foodmatters.com/recipe/lemon-bliss-balls-recipe
Been going through this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Appetite-Reduction-Filling-Low-Fat-Recipes/1600940498/
and chosen some tacos and a spinach stew for next week. I will report back as I make them.
I like this cookbook a lot - it's got a healthy/low-calorie focus and everything I've cooked out of it has been great (AND no/minimal "specialty" foods - some good quinoa recipes though)! Yes, it's vegan, but adding meat would be easy if you and your family prefer. I am personally not vegan, but I like vegan cookbooks a lot because they tend to showcase creativity with vegetables and whole grains.
Also, I'm going to stress this from forgot_my_password99 again:
>Cannot stress this enough, vegetables and more vegetables.
There are tons of ways to prepare vegetables other than just steaming them (though that's great too!), and maybe adding a bit of butter/pork/etc is a good way to 'baby step' into eating more vegetables!
Also: if your family is open to it, explore different ethnic cuisines! For example, Thai style curries or stir fries (easy with frozen stir fry vegetable mix, Thai curry paste, optional coconut milk, and tofu or chicken) are easy and vegetables are an integral part of the dish.
Recipe modified from Isa Chandra Moskowitz's Appetite for Reduction. Nutritional Information is as follows (per 1/4 cup serving)
A few things that might help you:
Check out appetite for reduction. It's a Vegan cookbook for losing weight so it has some good low carb options.
A lot of Japanese food is actually low in carbs if you skip the rice, try out something like Tofu Nimono.
Try swapping your rice for quinoa, it's basically like rice, but it has more protein so you don't have to eat as much.
I personally like filling up on greens to instead of filling up on carbs.
Maybe Forks over Knives: The Cookbook or Appetite for Reduction. They both have an emphasis on healthy vegan cooking.
I have a few recipes that I've done myself! However, most of my recipes that I get I find online. Here are a few good sources!
http://ohsheglows.com/
http://www.theppk.com/
http://vegweb.com/
http://www.vegkitchen.com/
My girlfriend also two books which we use A LOT:
Appetite For Reduction
Veganomicon
If you would the few recipes that I have, I'd be glad to give them to you! I'm about to be really busy at the moment, so I don't have time to type them up (all of my recipes are stored in my head lol) but I have the day off tomorrow so I will type them up then :)
Thug Kitchen and Appetite for Reduction are on rotation at my house right now.
Appetite for Reduction is vegan low cal cooking
http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-Reduction-Filling-Low-Fat-Recipes/dp/1600940498
A lot of the recipes are below 300 calories.
I love this cookbook. It's about 80% good stuff. My husband and I literally cooked our way through the whole cookbook.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600940498/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_-BZMDbD6TE237
This and this are my favourites I think!
Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra. Bought it for low calorie recipes even before we made the change to vegan.
Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes https://www.amazon.com/dp/1600940498/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Vx2QBbD5QW838
Since everyone else is touching on the other stuff, Appetite for Reduction is one of my favorite vegan cookbooks. Unfortunately it's not loaded with pictures (and the pictures it has are kind of... funky...), but the food is good.
The Post Punk Kitchen is also worth checking out. This black bean and quinoa soup is one of my favorites that I don't make often enough.
I'm so sorry you're going through this. My SO's mother has several conditions including fibro, rheumatoid arthritis, and some super fun neurological disorders that the doctors haven't been able to pinpoint. She doesn't have CP, but I know her arms and hands are very, very weak as well. She has good days and bad days. I've known her for about five years now, and her best days seem to pile up when she's drinking plenty of water and she gives herself a break physically. Her doctors have recommended trying yoga over the years, though I don't think she's ever followed through. Swimming seems to help get her going, and I know for a while she was saying she was using very light weights (1 and 3 lb) to do some basic arm and shoulder exercises.
You are totally welcome to PM me if you want to, I'd be happy to pass along anything from my SO about his mom's routines. They've been dealing with this for about 25 years now, so I know there's a boatload of information I don't have.
Appetite for Reduction has a bunch of great recipes that are by no means difficult to make. Or, if you're feeling adventurous, The Veganomicon is pretty awesome. Just remember: Cumquat, Vanilla, Nectacoughcough
I believe that my wife got it from Appetite for Reduction http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-Reduction-Filling-Low-Fat-Recipes/dp/1600940498
Just a couple of links to help you out.
The stonesoup has great (mostly) 5 ingredient recipes and can be easily made vegetarian.
I highly recommend How to Cook Everything Vegetarian and Appetite for Reduction for simple, basic recipes.
Also, quesadillas are a great, quick meal on a stove. If you're looking for a good vegan recipe, these Smoky White Bean Quesadillas are awesome and can be made easily without a food processor.
And this Easy Breezy Cheezy Sauce (scroll down) is delicious, cheap and easy with pasta or steamed veggies. I had a kitchen this size when I studied abroad in France a couple years ago and it can be done. You just have to learn to be creative. :) Good luck!
I have been vegetarian for 13 years. I use the big recipe sites like allrecipes, www.food.com , www.foodnetwork.com , www.epicurious.com , plus some veg-specific ones like www.vegweb.com and www.vegetariantimes.com . Honestly, I would suggest picking up a cookbook. If you don't want to spend any money you could even check out a couple from the library. They usually have some decent veg cookbooks. It is very easy to find low fat/low calorie vegetarian cookbooks. I have a couple of vegan ones that I use a lot because my husband is vegan (I'm not): Appetite for Reduction and The Happy Herbivore Both authors have some good vegan recipes on their websites too: www.happyherbivore.com and www.theppk.com
Another thing that is really simple is just to modify the things you like to eat now and make them vegetarian. My coworkers always ask me what I eat but besides the fact that I tend to eat more world cuisine than the average meat-eating person I eat a lot of the same things that they do. Lasagna, stir fries, casseroles, tacos, most anything you can think of. So my advice is to just think of whatever you want to eat and either modify it yourself or google a recipe for it to make it meatless and low-calorie.
I'm vegan and limiting caloric intake, but I can manage it with protein shakes! This awesome mix with 2 cups of unsweetened almond milk and a banana is about 300 calories and keeps me full for hours, while giving me nearly 1/2 of my daily protein!
My second favorite safety net is using Isa Chandra's Appetite for Reduction recipes (she's my favorite chef of all time!), especially chickpea and quinoa salad - it's so versatile and super high in protein.
If you cut out the dairy, you'll probably have an easier time reducing your overall calories, so look for vegan alternatives if necessary. If you have any questions, feel free to PM!
Appetite for Reduction
Rice milk is generally low in fat (and calories), but it's a little too sweet for me. Your mileage may vary. I like almond and cashew milk, but that may be a little too high in fat for you.
Daiya is a soy-free cheese alternative, but I haven't tried it. I've heard good things about it, though, and it's supposed to melt like "real" cheese.
As for yogurt, I've only had soy and coconut, so not a lot of recommendations there. So Delicious is a good brand.
Edited to add: Appetite for Reduction has some good low-fat vegan recipes that you could easily incorporate meat into if you'd like.
Even though I'm not vegan (just vegetarian), I really love Isa Does It and Appetite for Reduction, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Every recipe I've tried from those books has turned out amazing, and most of them are cheap and easy to throw together.
I also second the Flavor Bible recommendation. It's useful for those times when you're looking for a creative way to use an ingredient, but you don't want to follow a whole recipe.
I don't take any supplements, but I really, really, really should be taking b12. Like other's said, b12 is only really available from animal products.
I eat a LOT of spinach. Like, half a bag a day. I've not found it too hard to substitute meat in my meals. One pot meals like curries, stir fries, chilli, etc are really easy to veganise. You can swap the meat for chickpeas, other beans, lentils, soya mince, soya chunks etc, and still get a great tasting meal. The key is to use the right herbs and spices.
Tofu is delicious, but only if you cook it properly, otherwise it can be like...pannacota type texture. Make sure you press it!
I bought myself this book: Appetite for Reduction and it was a massive help.
Good luck! And don't give yourself too much grief if you slip up every so often. Give yourself a grace period to ease into it.
One of my favorite cook books is "Appetite for Reduction" which is a vegan low calorie cookbook.
The recipes are delicious and really helped a super non-vegan like myself give more veggies a try!
Okay, I suck at responding, but here's some stuff I do!
I recently kicked my butt into gear and what helped me:
I looove cooking. Making vegan food has helped me tremendously. My favorite vegan blog is Oh She Glows. She makes my favorite kind of vegan food which is the kind that doesn't have non-vegan substitutes (the food just happens to be vegan, no faux meat or fake cheese etc) and it has reasonable ingredients that I can find in the grocery store by my house. Everything I've made from that site was delicious. I own this book and it is fabulous.
I bought a water bottle like this and it makes it easier to drink than wide-mouth ones. I have an app on my phone, Water My Body, so I know how much I have left to drink that day.
Green smoothies are fucking delicious. I feel better every time I have one. The most basic is Almond Milk + Banana + Spinach but you can make all kinds. The 30 Day Green Smoothie Challenge starts July 1, so sign up for free! There are a lot of other great recipes at Green Monster Movement.
I am a horrible person with no sleep. Coffee helps, but only so much. I had to start changing my habits so I could sleep on time. I set an alarm to tell me to stop doing what I was doing and start getting ready for bed. I got f.lux so my bright screen wouldn't keep me up (they have it for Android and jailbroken iPhones too!). I started reading before bed and taking melatonin. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Meditation has helped tremendously. It isn't exercise, but it makes me feel better. Even if I do it for five mins a day.
I am going to be honest. I've been lazy lately with exercise. But my favorite places to get the job done (since I don't have a gym membership at the moment)
Hang Tight - MarC will kick your ass. Her southern drawl will make it hard to hate her, though.
Blogilates - My favorite YT exercise guru. I love her workout calendars, because it makes planning exercise super easy.
Let me know if you need me to explain or elaborate on anything!
I agree that PETA dropped the ball with that particular ad. I don't think that making overweight people feel bad about themselves is the way to go, as far as bringing them to the vegan side, or for inspiring people to lose weight either. But it's possible that by changing her diet to a healthy plant-based diet could really affect your mom's weight. It could also go a long way towards improving her self-esteem issues. Doing something for others (in this case, for the animals) often results in one feeling good about oneself. Anyway, it sounds like you're already trying to nudge her in that direction. Maybe you could show her some low-fat vegan recipe blogs or get her a book like Appetite for Reduction, or the Forks over Knives cookbook...if you haven't already done that!
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I recommend that you get yourself a good cookbook that appeals to you and work through it. The nice thing about working with one book is that the author usually sticks with the same kinds of flavoring agents and tools so you don't have to buy a ton of different things.
For the last few months I have been cooking from Appetite for Reduction because all the recipes are vegetable heavy and very quick to prepare and now I don't even need to make a list when I go to the store I know exactly what I need, lemons, limes, garlic, onions, broccoli, mixed greens, dark leafy greens, cashews, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, potatoes, cilantro, whatever fruits and veggies are fresh and on sale, hot sauce different beans, olive oil, almond milk, rice, pasta, quinoa, tempeh, tofu, peanut butter, and coffee.
Sine my spice rack is full and I grow lots of herbs I can make all kinds of things
I think the trick to being able to make lots of different things is to not use any processed foods. To make fast but healthy meals it is easiest to do batch cooking on one day of grains and proteins and then just assemble quick meals out of whole grains, protein, vegetables, and a sauce.