Hello and welcome to another episode of Lean with Plants.

My name is Chelsea and I'm so freaking stoked that you are here today.

So whether you've been with me from the very

beginning when I had like a ton of tech issues or you were here for the first time,

if you've been struggling on a vegan diet, if you went plant based and you thought that

the pounds would just fly off you and it didn't happen, then I'm going to shed some light on

that because this podcast is all about the action steps to get you losing weight on a vegan

diet, understanding why it didn't happen, and then how to actually make that happen for you.

So today's episode, I'm going to talk about how to lose weight

quickly on a vegan diet. And I'm very well aware that this is a bit of a clickbaity kind of

title. And I am going to talk about some little hacks that you can make to speed up the process.

But I really want you to understand by the end of this episode that weight

loss is not this like linear predictable thing but there is hope within that so first of all let's

take a little recap if you've been here before you will know that I talk about a calorie deficit

a lot.

But if this is your first time listening, I so recommend you go back and listen to episode

two because I talk about what a calorie deficit is.

And I talk about how you really can be overweight without eating really healthy.

Okay, so a calorie deficit, basically what that means is that you are consuming less calories

than your body needs.

It's otherwise called an energy deficit.

And what happens when you're in a calorie deficit is your body is forced to pull energy from somewhere else to actually

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