Vegan Weight Loss
All You Need To Know About Protein

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Is Protein Important?

The word protein comes from the Greek πρώτα ("prota"), meaning "of primary importance." Yes, it turns out it is pretty important.

Protein is:

• Required for the growth and maintenance of tissues, including your hair, skin, eyes, all of your internal organs, and muscle. Muscle is your body’s store house for protein, and muscle is practically the only element of your metabolism over which you have any control. (If you want to burn more fat you need to build more muscle. The best way to do that is through strength training. Strength training is essential to your vegan weight loss program)

• Necessary for making enzymes. Everything from digesting food to thinking requires enzymes. Enzymes facilitate the biochemical reactions that keep us living and breathing. Without enzymes we would die.

• Necessary for making antibodies and white blood cells--two major parts of your immune system. Protein helps keep you illness free.

• Required to maintain fluid and electrolyte balance. Fluid and electrolyte balance is important because it regulates your body’s ability to conduct electricity and transport nutrients and waste products into and out of your cells. So, if you want your heart to beat, your blood to flow and your brain to think, you will need protein.

• Required to make hormones. Think of all the things hormones do in our bodies,--control our metabolism, sleep/wake cycles, growth and maturation, sex drive, and many more all thanks to a collection of amino acids.

So, as you can see, protein is pretty important. It is vital to your health and wellbeing.

How Much Protein Should You Eat?

Your vegan weight loss diet should contain from 5-10% of total calories from per day.

For someone who weighs 180 pounds, this would be between 66 and 99 grams of protein per day. For a 140 pound person, this would be between 51 and 77 grams of protein per day. Most people consume around 100-120 grams of protein per day.

So, unless you are a 300 pound bodybuilder or a marathon runner, you are getting all the protein you need. In fact, most nutrition experts agree, if you are getting adequate calories it is virtually impossible not to get plenty of protein.

Any extra you eat is used as energy, or stored as fat if your energy requirements have been met. So, eating excess protein can make you fat and stop your vegan weight loss program. While protein is important, more isn’t better.

Are You Eating Too Much Of A Good Thing?

While getting enough protein is essential (and easy on a vegan weight loss diet), getting too much on a can have undesirable consequences such as:

• calcium loss-osteoporosis

• fluid imbalance

• kidney damage

• low energy levels

• heart and vascular disease

• some forms of cancer

(In the book (The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health author Colin T. Campbell shows how too much protein, especially animal protein, can kill you!)

Make sure you are getting enough protein and be careful not to eat too much.

What Kind Of Protein Is Best?

Plant protein of course. Part of what makes a vegan weight loss diet successful is that is a completely plant-based diet. For ultimate weight loss and wellness results get your protein from plants!

All the proteins required for excellent health come from plants. All animals, including humans, ultimately get their protein from plants. Plant proteins supply all of the amino acids you need, without adding extra calories, saturated fat, cholesterol, hormones,and antibiotics.

Plus, plant-based proteins also provide you with fiber, vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants.

The best plant-based proteins are legumes, including lentils, kidney beans, chick peas, split peas, lima beans, mung beans, baked beans etc., and soy products such as tofu, tempeh and soy milk.

Nuts and seeds are also very high in protein and have been shown to help prevent heart disease.

Grains, such as breakfast cereals, bread, rice and pasta are lower in protein, but still contribute useful amounts to the diet. Some vegetables, especially leafy greens like spinach, kale, and chard, also add to your overall protein intake.

Remember This

Remember, when it comes to weight loss and wellness, protein, carbohydrates, and fat are all important. Each has an important role and none should be eliminated.

Long term weight loss is achieved by moving more and eating less. Love your body by eating a healthy diet based on plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits and exercising regularly, with a special emphasis on strength training.

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