How I lost 66lbs as a vegan (Broccoli Mum Story)
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever tried to portion-control, eat “healthy,” or follow the rules of dieting but still felt stuck, this episode will make everything click.
This week I’m talking with Amy (Broccoli Mom 🥦), who lost 66 pounds and has kept it off for five years! For nearly two decades she was trapped in the cycle of eating as little as possible, getting starving, binging, and feeling like something was wrong with her. Her story shows what really keeps women stuck and why willpower is never the answer.
💪🏻 We dig into the habits that secretly caused weight gain, why raw vegan and low-calorie diets left her hungrier than ever, and how misunderstanding calorie density created years of frustration. When she finally learned how weight loss actually works, everything changed.
🎙️ In this episode you’ll learn why restriction backfires, how calorie density affects fullness, and what finally made weight loss sustainable for someone who naturally loves to eat.
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| 0:00.0 | Amy, you're back in the studio. |
| 0:02.2 | You're back in the podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | We did an interview about a year ago. |
| 0:20.9 | Wow. Yeah, that was a long time ago. I love that interview. But thanks for having me back. So you've lost 66 pounds. Yeah, I have. And I've maintained that for like five years now. So that is wild. I never thought that was something that I was going to be able to do. Do you know how many times in a day or in a week I hear your name, broccoli mum, where people are like, broccoli mom's |
| 0:28.5 | doing this, broccoli mom's doing that. Because obviously you have a huge following now on social media |
| 0:33.5 | sharing about the recipes that worked for you to lose these 66 pounds and sharing like your |
| 0:39.3 | story on YouTube and so it's very exciting to have you back here and what I wanted to do is just |
| 0:45.9 | talk about your story again and we want to share like a couple of updates on kind of what you're |
| 0:50.0 | doing now yeah draw back the curtain a little bit that That sounds great. I'm ready to be fully exposed. |
| 0:55.5 | Let's go for it. Amazing. Take us back a little bit to the beginning of your journey. |
| 1:02.5 | When was that exactly? Are you saying when I started losing weight or back before? Back before |
| 1:08.2 | that. Like take us, okay, when did you first start dieting? Or I think I was |
| 1:12.6 | very conscious that I was overweight even before I even hit my teens. Oh really? Yeah, even as a kid. |
| 1:19.2 | So I grew up living in Ethiopia where food was very, very simple, probably very whole foodsie, |
| 1:25.0 | but then we would come back to the UK and we would essentially |
| 1:28.6 | binge on all of the things that we'd been missing for months at a time. And so I was very aware |
| 1:34.0 | that even as a kid, after a few months of eating loads of vegan ice cream and vegan |
| 1:38.7 | cheese and like vegan butter on everything when I was back in the UK, like that really packed |
| 1:43.7 | on. And so I used to feel really. Like, that really packed it on. |
| 1:48.9 | And so I used to feel really subconscious even as a kid that I had gained weight. |
| 1:54.2 | And so moving into my teens, it was something I was really conscious of, you know, in the sense that I probably had been dieting since I was about 11 or just being conscious |
| 1:59.2 | that I didn't really want to eat that much food because I felt like I was somebody who just gained weight so easily. |
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