First 21 Days of Going Vegan with Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
21 days can change your life. This is your roadmap for going vegan.
Whether you are hoping to lose weight, improve diabetes or heart health, or address another problem, you will be surprised to learn how much you can improve in just a short time.
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to lay out a three-week plan for starting a plant-based diet! This is everything you need to know about ditching meat and dairy and how to make the transition as easy as possible.
Get ready, because you are about to do the very things you had thought were impossible, including losing weight and keeping it off for good!
Chuck is also joined by Plantiful Kiki who shares her incredible 70-pound weight loss success story. Her weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol were all out of control as she teetered on the brink of a battle with diabetes. But this mother of two was able to turn her health around by adopting a plant-based diet. Unbeknownst to her, by chronicling her journey she would become an accidental social media star and is now inspiring tens of thousands of others to boost their health as well!
Plus, Chuck shares his secret to keeping off the 280 pounds that he lost. It is one of the most important pieces of advice anyone tired of yo-yo dieting needs to know!
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| 0:00.0 | more and more people have been taking advantage of what vegan diets have to offer and what they have to offer is enormous. |
| 0:06.2 | It's important to understand why we're doing this because a lot of people are a little bit confused. |
| 0:10.0 | If a person comes in here and says, well, I heard a plant-based diet might help me lose weight or might help me with my diabetes. |
| 0:16.2 | They may not be too sure what those connections are. |
| 0:19.0 | Once you learn, for example, that fat has nine calories per gram, that's why we want to get away from the fat. |
| 0:24.8 | Purple hydrates have only four. Or once you understand that diabetes responds really well to getting the fatty foods out of the diet because that helps restore insulin sensitivity. Then you know why you're doing it. |
| 0:43.5 | Well, hello there! And welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen or a view or a download. |
| 0:58.2 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 1:05.8 | Welcome to 2021. Happy New Year! On the show today, we are going to be laying out the first 21 days of 2021. |
| 1:17.6 | Indeed, 21 days toward a healthier you. We're going to be getting a roadmap for adopting a plant-based diet from Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 1:29.4 | It's everything that you need to know. Talking about getting ready to make the change. |
| 1:36.0 | And then what does the first week look like? And what changes should you be making in the second and third weeks? |
| 1:42.7 | And what mindset do you need to adopt? Of course, we're also going to be hearing about the health advantages, |
| 1:49.6 | that come with the plant-based diet, and an abundance of resources that are available to you to make the switch. |
| 1:59.6 | I'll tell you, if you are already vegan, this would be the perfect podcast to share with a friend or a loved one |
| 2:07.1 | who has expressed interest in perhaps ditching meat and dairy from their diet this year. |
| 2:14.8 | This is a great how-to. We're laying out the first 21 days of 2021. |
| 2:23.0 | And then we'll be hearing from someone who has already made the change. Very successfully, I might add. |
| 2:29.7 | Social Media Star Plentiful Kiki. Here's the thing about Kiki. She was pre-diabetic. |
| 2:41.0 | She had high blood pressure. She had high cholesterol, and she was 70 pounds overweight. |
| 2:48.4 | In her own words, quote, I was a mess. She's not a mess anymore. So today we're going to be hearing what her journey |
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