The Vegan Thread

I also have been tempted to try out a vegan diet for the summer, as i need to drop a few kilos, and know that there are a lot of high level ironman/middle distance triathletes who are on vegan/ pseudo-vegan diets.

^ I've been on a vegan diet for 3 weeks now, unashamedly for weightloss above anything else - I don't really care about the ethical/moral implications etc.

It's worked in a few ways, i.e. I have lost weight - but it's not as drastic as I assumed it would be. Also, whilst I was still getting to grips with it in the first week and a half, my carb and sugar consumption went up - It takes careful meal planning to make sure your not just replacing meat with carbs.

If you do decide to try it out, first of all find yourself a decent vegan low carb protein source you get on with and work that into it or you may have problems (For example, I find soy milk rank - so am drinking oat milk instead- but it contains barely any protein and 4x the carbs of normal milk)