Has anyone tried going "Vegan"?. this is the term used for vegetarian diet.

I try it for a week and gained 4 ponds ! Crazy..! Has anyone else try this.

it is basically no meat and lots of grain, fruits and vegetable. It's not hard to do , but it is not being effective for me ...Hum.......B4U

That's odd that you would gain weight eating veggie. Are you eating nuts? Are you frying your veggies? Veggie food can be really high in fat unless you are really careful with how it is prepared.

Are you eating white grain (white rice, Pasta, white bread ect) or brown and wholemeal?

What fruit are you eating? Some fruit choices are better than others (higher or lower in sugar)

How are you getting your Protein? shakes? Nuts? Tofu?

I eat a veggie diet, and have lost all my weight, and have maintained eating this way. It can be done.

I agree with Jack. A vegan and vegetarian are not the same thing.

I'm vegetarian and I'm big as a house! I'm not Vegan, I eat cheese, and I love bread, which is why I'm a fat vegetarian! Perhaps being on the Band Wagon I can become Vegan! :confused:

I'm veg because of ethical reasons, although I love meat and will on very rare occasion eat humanely local raised meat sometimes, and fish.

vegitarians can eat ice cream, cheesecake and all other kinds of bad stuff. My sister and both her grown daughters are vegitarians (mostly vegan but will have some butter to cook with) and they are thin, but they watch their weight. My sister will not eat more then 1500 calories a day and she runs 4 miles every morning. She watches everything she eats. Some things are very healthy for you, totally vegan but are fattening. Example: real peanut butter. very healthy, very fattening. My sis and i talk a great deal about different foods and the calories they have. We even email each other with "GROSS" items like an article over starbucks new coffee which was like 700 calories per cup. BTW, I mak a mocha latte at work that is 130 calories for 20 ounces. I use NESCAFE instant coffee, one envelope of nestle hot cocoa (80 cal) and 0ne envelope of fat free hot chockalte (50 cal). Just add hot water nd stir. You need no sugar or milk which gets rid of that always trying to keep milk in the workplace fridge, etc.