Want to Succeed at Vegan Weight Loss?

by Derrick delay
(Vancouver, WA)

Today a client of mine, Julie, asked,"Derrick, if you were going to give just one piece of advice to help someone lose weight and get healthy what would it be?"

Knowing that she was opening herself for the longest lecture of our relationship Julie quickly set some boundaries. She only wanted one thing. Not one thing about food, exercise, stress management, hydration, etc. Just one thing about one area of health.

Now, I could have said exercising everyday is the most important thing. Throughout human evolution intense physical activity has been the rule. Only recently and only in industrialized countries do you find people that move so little. Less than 15% of U.S. citizens move enough to accumulate more than 90 minutes of low to moderate intensity physical activity. Not moving makes people sick.

I could have said a nutrient-dense, whole-food vegan diet is the most important. Remember, we can't be any healthier than the food we eat. In order to build healthy new cells we need healthy raw materials-food. A whole-food vegan diet is the perfect diet for supplying high-quality raw materials for building a high-quality, vibrantly healthy body.

There is a lot I could have said.

Here is what I did say:

"I think the most important thing you can do to lose weight and get healthy is: Cultivate a mindset, a belief system, which causes you to seek opportunities to nourish yourself and avoid situations that ruin your health and make you sick.

Cultivate a mindset which compels you to:

• Eat a whole food, low-fat, high-raw vegan diet

• Move(exercise) vigorously every day

• Stay optimally hydrated using pure water

• Engage in Ecotherapy-Play in nature

• Practice Whole System Thinking (everything is connected)

• Create engaging, meaningful relationships

• Purposefully live joyful, passionate, exuberant lives

If you do this there is no way you can't be healthy, lean and vibrantly healthy!

What do think? What is the most important thing to do for vegan weight loss and health success?