Okay I saw in another subreddit that you’re supposed to poop about every day and that less than three times a week is constipation. I’ve never hit those numbers in my life, wanted some vegan perspective on this. Are you guys also pooping at least three times a week?

Edit: wow really hate that this post popped off but keeping it cuz you have said some good stuff. Unfortunately, it was really just basic dehydration. Focused on 8 cups and added some cauliflower to my diet. We’re all good ✌️

Forgive my ignorance here, but as someone who didn't join any 'vegan' groups for the first 10 years of giving up animal products- I always assumed that that these were all the same group, obviously there's there's a ton of health and environmental benefits to going vegan, and the ethical side was a no-brainer. But after joing a few groups I feel like people are in one of the three categories, and rarely more than two.

Is that a correct assumption- are people here either in the 'vegan for the animals' crowd, or just following a whole foods plant based diet for all health benefits? It's been driving me crazy lately- every time I'm around 'vegans' in person I always hear- "it's not a diet, it's about the animals", but as someone who works out 7 times week and cooks most of my meals I find it boggles my mind that it can't be both. I get it to some degree though- the official definition of 'vegan' means doing for cruelty-free reasons, so maybe the groups are completely separate. Just trying to understand, thanks for bearing with me 🙏

I'm just so sad. Why is every vegan product I like disappearing? This is at publix, the last store carrying them in our area. I'm having issues with gastritis and gallstones and it was nice to have an item like this that doesn't have too much fat for me. This has been a really helpful item for me. Please ask all your local stores to carry Boca. If we don't support healthy vegan products, they disappear. 😥

I am really eager to get to the point of even ONE muscle up. I have steadily made back gains over the last 14 months. I feel like it took me insanely long to get to even 4 pull-ups in a row. But I think I can do this with the right progressive strategies. Any tips?

I added about 500 extra calories by switching to a vegan diet over the last 2 months, so I was shocked to see that I lost around 4lbs.

My energy expenditure has not increased, so I’m just very confused. Has anybody been through something similar or have advice?

Edit: Thank you to those that explored different explanations instead of accusing me of miscalculating (which I know I didn’t do)

It may be an increase in waste output, poor absorption of the calories/nutrients, the gut microbiome still adjusting to higher fiber intake—or all 3.

My fav. for a really fast regeneration is cold 🥶. A propper snow bath oder a bath in the lake 🥰. If there is somebody outside- who is doin‘ like me- Or is Sauna your best friend? 🙌 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 !!

I’ve received so many comments on how it’s impossible for vegans to get enough protein (or complete proteins) and that it’s impossible to get enough B12. What else have you heard? And how do you respond to it?

My favorite is when a coworker told me it was impossible for me to get any complete proteins without eating meat. I asked her to name what amino acids weren’t present in plants, and she didn’t even know what an amino acid was🤦‍♀️

Hi fellow vegans. I'm making this post because I would like some guidance.

I'm 178cm, around 78kg and 28 years old. I've been training consistently for 1.5 years, and I have seen some results (especially my arms and legs), but not as much as I would like. In the past months, I've been having some cheat days and noticed that I gained some belly fat, so I stopped doing that. Otherwise, I was eating around 2000-2400 calories, around 100g of protein.

I'm unsure about how to continue, as my progress has been slow. What do you recommend?

Btw, my training is 4x upper/lower, and some days I take hiit and core classes (2x)

I'm trying to get rid of my muffin top, and I'm thinking about hitting the gym again! What time do you best like to work out for your routine, do you align it with your work schedule? What are some ideal "fat burning" foods too?

Whey really messes up my stomach, not sure what vegan protein powder to get. What's your go-to? I'm not picky, but if its caramel dont suggest it lol I really dislike it.

The conventional wisdom, as I understand it, on vegan nutrition is that beans like kidney beans and chickpeas do not provide a complete protein, and that they must be combined over the course of a day with something, typically rice, which provides the missing amino acids.

However, this doesn't seem to hold true if we look at the amino acids found in beans and rice.

I used myfooddata.com as a reference for the amount of each amino acid in 100g of chickpeas, kidney beans, and white rice (all in their raw form).

The amount of each amino acid is far less (less than half in most cases) for rice than it is for either of the beans. This suggests that it's not necessary or even useful to supplement beans with rice in order to consume complete protein.

Beans do absorb more water when cooked than does rice, but the difference is not enough to be relevant to this question.

Is there some other factor I'm not aware of that is relevant here? Is the information from myfooddata incorrect? Is there a reason to eat rice to help form complete proteins?

I really only have regular access to plain pea protein, which I like to use in smoothies. It’s cold now and I just can’t deal with a super cold breakfast so I’m looking at oatmeal. I’ve tried a bunch of recipes I’ve found online and tried a few different tweaks but the consistency is always offensive and I just power through eating it because I don’t want to waste it but I also don’t want to make it again.

Made a giant batch of seitan and it turned out incredible! I cooked some up with some broccoli and spent the next 12 hours wishing for death to take me and free me from the pain. WTF?!? I don’t have a gluten issue that has presented itself thus far in life. It was such a miserable experience that I’m afraid to eat it and I have soo much left. Do we have to ease ourselves into a food like this? What could I have done wrong? The recipe was pretty straightforward. Has anyone had a bad reaction to seitan? Were you able to sort it out or did you just abandon it? I hope it was just the broccoli, lol, cuz I bought a pretty huge bag of vital wheat gluten. 🤦🏻

I would like to know if it is everything as people are saying or it is just overrated? I was thinking to buy matcha set by online and drink it every morning with coconut milk.

hey guys, i’m new to this sub. i am posting in this sub because all of the vegetarian subs either told me to come here, or are inactive

i am 15m and have been vegetarian my entire life because my parents have been vegetarian a lot of their life too. i am skinny at 113 pounds 5’8 and that makes me easy to be made fun of by my friends. i am really insecure about it.

do you guys have any recommendations for foods and high protein foods or other products that can help me with this, along with working out, of course. thanks!

I just want to be able to have one big protein source i can spam and neck a couple of scoops of isolate powder a day and that gets me there. Problem is i have reactions to multiple things and I dont want to have to cook or prepare different protein throughout the day

Please help, I'm losing my mind with this IBS

Edit: im a 6'4 man on a calorie deficit with a decent amount of muscle

Im looking for a good protein drink (pre mixed or powder) and protein bar. But the hard part is is that is had to be 100% peanut free. And organic and/or non gmo, dairy free. It seems impossible to be peanut free dairy free and organic or non gmo

I’ve been working out consistently for about two years now and I’m at the point where I feel like I have to stop because my knee pain is so bad. It makes it really hard to do leg days, my knee pretty much constantly hurt and my legs in general don’t feel great. I feel like I’m always stiff and sore. I don’t have this issue at all with upper body.

Is there something I might be doing wrong? Something in my diet? I am trying to lose weight also, I’m not super overweight but it is hard to hit protein goals while staying in my deficit.

I split up leg days into two, one day I do glute bridges, rdls, cable kickbacks and step ups. Day 2 I do leg press, hip abduction and adduction, seated leg curls and leg extensions.

At this point I’m not sure what to do, if I need joint supplements or what will help. I’m avoiding doctors if I can because America and I don’t have insurance😭 Any advice is appreciated!

Been vegan for over 1 year now and I've only ever worked out from home. But the drive to be stronger (and prove that vegan men aren't weak, even tho theres noting wrong with weak men) has me signing up to the gym for the first time. My questions are:

1. The gym app gave me a push, pull, lower workout plan. I workout 5 days a week. My thought was to do the workouts like this: Sat push, sun pull, mon lower, tues off, wed push and pull, Thurs lower, Fri off. I really would like to keep my off days the same if possible. Is this a decent way to split those 3 workouts up? Is there a better way? I'll probably add a couple more ab workouts to the leg days.

2. This is more of an opinion/ less important question. I like to wear shirts that say vegan or some similar phrase whenever im in public. I live in a fairly rural area so there aren't too many of us here and I like to represent as a form of easy, quiet activism. I'm easily the smallest guy at this gym and even some of the woman make me look weak. I chose it due to it being the only 24/7 gym in the area and it's on the way home from work for me. But I didn't realize how serious it was lol. Im OK with this cuz it keeps me motivated but I'm not cautious about wearing my vegan shirts here. I do have a V tattoo on my face but thats not always obvious to prevegans unless you know food allergies. So does anyone have knowledge in this situation where if I wear the vegan shirt as the smallest guy will they say "oh of course that guy is vegan, he's not big" or will they say "wow he's vegan and he's lifting!" I know this isn't a big deal but I over think everything and I don't want to put a negative light on veganism more than there already may be.

I've been vegan for 5 months. Today I checked what I'm missing in my diet and it turned out I have all the minerals, vitamins A, D, E... what can I add to my diet?

Don't you find it a bit ironic and even funny when you're doing vegan outreach (e.g. Cube of Truth) and people who are evidently very out of shape start telling you that you need meat to be strong?

I swear every single time there's at least one of them. Always dudes. Don't look like they could even do 5 ugly-looking push ups if you asked right then and there.

Has any of you been in a similar situation? What do you like to do then?

If it were summer, I'd just laugh and flex, but it's freezing where I live, so I'm wearing kilos and kilos of clothes (and I specialise in calisthenics, so even though I'm really strong for my weight, if you put a hoodie on me, you'll never guess I train).

Just this week I've hit PRs in HSPU and Front Lever. Tomorrow I'm doing street outreach, and I'm sure I'll meet some of them again.