To think trying Veganuary might help me kick start weight loss?

[WeeWelshWoman]

I mean, it's worth a shot? I need a palate cleanser for lockdown Christmas (which involves too much meat, cheese and booze - probably).

Anyone done it, tried it? Did it help shift the Christmas (and lockdown, and baby weight that won't budge)?

YABU - it won't work

YANBU - do it, it'll help

Depends tbh. If you stick to a mostly unprocessed whole foods diet then probably.

But you can also live off Beyond Burgers, chips, oreos, jammie dodgers and pot noodles as a vegan and I doubt that would help.

I ended up doing it for four months and had better health and enjoyed varied meals, but lots of naughty food is accidentally vegan! Most Chinese and Indian sides, chips, crisps, Oreos, sweets (without gelatin) plus all the beans and rice etc bloated me to start with. Lovely food overall though and still veggie many years later having been a full meat eater before that.

I got fat eating vegan. I would have tofu scramble and avocado toast, salted crisps as snack, big pasta bowl or curry and rice for lunch, oreos and tea for snack no.2 and then cheeseless papa johns pizza or vegan sausages, hash browns and sriracha. Gained a whole dress size still trying to shift.
You gained weight because you ate junk food. If you had eaten the same diet, but with meat sausages, cheese pizza, scrambled egg, meat curry or pasta, you would have put on the same amount of weight.

It's not meat in itself that is fattening.

Vegans normally lose weight when they change because they're cutting out pies, pasties, burgers, pasta in creamy sauces, butter on toast, ice cream, things in breadcrumbs with cheesy sauces, pizzas and alcohol. If they discover such things as the vast amount of vegan alternatives for all of those things, rather than having vegetables, grains and pulses, they don't lose weight. And if they didn't ordinarily eat such things as pies and pizza, but eat meat, fish, veg and pulses, they don't tend to lose weight, either.

Tl;dr Vegan =/= intrinsically lower calorie. You'd still need to be as aware of your nutritional requirements and energy intake.

You have to be careful as others have said. I went vegetarian for Lent in 2018 and I ended up really quite fat after a few weeks. It's because I had a healthy diet with meat in it but when I cut out the meat I was hungry all the time and I ended up scoffing things like veggie pizzas and too much pasta.
I am now vegetarian for good and I did a lot more research about what to do and I have lost weight and feel healthier.

I wouldn’t do it for weight loss unless your really going to do it with wholesome meals the only vegan I know is clinically obese because she Eats snacky vegan “but it’s healthy”.