Overweight as a healthy vegan? How it’s possible!! - the TRUTH about fat loss explained.
Lean With Plants
Chelsea Mae Cullen
4.9 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I simplify the science of weight loss and explain how you can be eating exceptionally healthy and still not lose weight.
It’s vital to have a solid grasp on this information to understand HOW to start losing weight and WHY different diets work, so if you’re new to the podcast I recommend starting here.
I also share my story of struggling with disordered eating, food restriction, binge eating, massive weight fluctuations and never being able to get to a healthy lean weight or MAINTAIN it, all while being frustrated and confused as I was eating such a healthy plant-based diet.
I explain what a calorie deficit is and how necessary it is for weight loss.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the very first episode of Get Lean with Plants. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Chelsea and today we're going to be looking at why you can still be overweight as a healthy vegan, someone on a plant-based diet. And if this is you, if you need |
| 0:23.1 | to lose 20 to 30 pounds, 15 kilos to be in a healthy weight range or even more, and you've |
| 0:30.2 | been plant-based for a while and you eat really well and you are frustrated and struggling |
| 0:35.4 | to understand why that weight hasn't come off. |
| 0:38.4 | Girl, let me just say that this is so much more common than you probably realize. |
| 0:42.5 | We're surrounded by all these vegan influencers and they're posting like these smoothie bowls |
| 0:48.4 | and they've got six pack abs and five kids in their homeschool and they eat like what looks honestly to be |
| 0:56.0 | 4,000 calories a day and you're going how does this happen I don't get it this isn't me |
| 1:02.0 | when I eat this way and it seems like a mystery we're going to demystify that today and |
| 1:07.0 | I really think it's time that someone starts talking about in the vegan community, |
| 1:13.0 | the actual science of fat loss. |
| 1:15.9 | So let's get straight into that. |
| 1:18.5 | So for my own story, for the longest time, I was so confused about fat loss. |
| 1:23.5 | I've done pretty much every diet there is when it comes to a vegan diet. |
| 1:27.8 | The first time that I went vegan, I went vegan because I wanted to get skinny. |
| 1:33.8 | And I didn't really care too much how I did it at that point. |
| 1:37.8 | I thought I was being really healthy, but I wasn't eating enough food. |
| 1:41.3 | I was trying to count calories. |
| 1:42.8 | I wasn't doing it very accurately. |
| 1:45.0 | And I went to bed hungry pretty much every night. I was so weak. I struggled to walk upstairs. |
| 1:53.0 | I was still trying to run probably like five kilometers a day. And as you may have have guessed it just wasn't sustainable and I had |
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