Losing Weight - Part Two: Calorie Reduction
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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🗓️ 26 July 2010
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Though some people do lose weight upon becoming vegan (which makes sense because you're eating fewer calorie-dense foods) and though vegans do have a lower body mass index than non-vegetarians, weight loss is not automatic for everyone. Rather than promise that "if you go vegan, you will lose weight," it's much more accurate to say "people who switch from an animal-based diet to a plant-based diet tend to lose weight effortlessly because plants are much less calorie-dense than animal flesh and secretions." For those for whom weight loss is a goal, it's simply a numbers game: decreasing energy intake and increasing calorie output – and remember – calories are just units of energy. Today we talk about reducing calories.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Adro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make informed food |
| 0:24.8 | choices to debunk myths about veganism and animal rights and to encourage |
| 0:30.0 | people to live according to their own values of compassion and healthfulness. |
| 0:35.6 | You can learn more about what we do and who we are by visiting Compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get to part two of losing weight. I have |
| 0:47.4 | been trying to get to it trying to write it and then record it for a very long time |
| 0:51.8 | so thank you for your patience. I really, really |
| 0:53.6 | appreciate it. I'm recording here now in possibly the most uncomfortable |
| 0:57.8 | position I've ever been in recording because Charlie, our newest addition to our family, our kitty, likes to sit on my lap |
| 1:07.1 | while I work, so I have completely lost all ability to type properly when I'm working and |
| 1:12.1 | now apparently to record properly because he's on my |
| 1:15.2 | lap and I have limited mobility. So hopefully that won't affect my voice too much. |
| 1:21.3 | Before we get started I want to tell you about a very special |
| 1:24.9 | person who has a really lovely story and who has been a great supporter of |
| 1:29.1 | compassionate cooks in general and this podcast in particular for a while now. |
| 1:35.0 | His name is Drew Ellis and I met Drew for the first time in November of 2009 |
| 1:40.0 | not that long ago when he came to my table at the San Francisco Green Festival |
| 1:45.0 | to share his story with me. Luckily he also wrote to me so I can share his story |
| 1:50.3 | with you which is much better than me trying to paraphrase what he said, |
| 1:55.2 | here's a bit of what Drew wrote to me. |
| 1:57.2 | Said, Dear Colleen, I've recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area after having |
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