Being Greek I was raised with the Mediterranean diet and never had problems with my weight. Although we rarely consumed fast food and red meat the amount of dairy and oil used in every meal was detrimental for my health. Since going WFPB 6 years ago I only lost 5 pounds but all my health markers are now on point. That is why everybody should try eating this way, even if weight is not an issue for them. Thank you so much for pointing out the importance of not consuming too much fat.
Wow! I have never heard anyone explain this so well. I have lived this myself. I went WFPB and lost 25 pounds of the stubborn weight that never seemed to come off no matter what I did. I even had the plateau in the middle of it. Once I took out more of the seeds and nuts, my weight just went down. I couldn’t even stop it! I became a super healthy weight that I have been able to maintain now for years. I even was able to add back in some of the healthy fats and don’t have to think much about what I eat. Everything is delicious! Everything you are saying is absolutely 100%
You should write a book about this subject in your spare time. 🙃 But seriously, that was some excellent well balanced advice I need to put into practice. I’ve been struggling to get off the last 30-40 pounds for the last 3 years but I’m not giving up. Thanks for being here for all of us.
So true! Many people are so set on a “diet” consisting of rules and restrictions. It makes them want to make eating a WFPB diet way more complicated than it ever has to be. The concept of eating as much tasty, nutrient dense, calorie light foods as you want until you are full just doesn’t compute for them, sadly.
Dillon, I have to tell you, that was one of your best rants ever! I have been with you since pre-REEBS… Lol I love you guys, and I love the work you do, and you change my life! You were so on point! Just wanted you to know how much I appreciated this one… See I already know all of this from you, but I sent your stuff to some of my friends to help them! Awesome job!👍🏻👏👏👏
I love your message of keeping it simple. I very much resonate with this and it’s how I have continued eating this way for the past fourteen years. It is THE reason I can keep my family of four fed with healthy, whole plant foods. I just started making some videos of how I make super simple starch staples for our family, how to use the instapot etc. It can be so simple once your tastebuds adjust.
WELL SAID!! Perfect explanation, one of my favorite videos along with your calorie density video that I hope everybody watches. Thanks for keeping it simple.
I want to show this to my mom because she is always trying to lose weight. She's done every diet out there and quits after 2 weeks and goes back to SAD. I keep telling her FIBER, VEGGIES, FRUIT!! I just hate seeing her waste money, time and energy on fad diets.
Facts! Great advice. I have come to embrace the plateau. 😮. Tells me my body is readjusting and recalibrating to a new weight. Resetting Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Of course, don’t want to stay there.
Spot on! I was eating avocado almost daily and snacking on nuts between meals which slowed my weight loss. Big mistake for me! Like you suggested, I took them out and I’m steadily losing 1 pound per week. I found I can snack on fruit instead of nuts and still lose weight.
This video is great! I love all the tips. I'm still struggling to lose weight with a WFPB lifestyle. I have to weigh / measure & track everything I eat, or I gain weight. I'm 15 pounds from my healthy weight, and I just can't seem to get there.
I've been getting vegan recipes from YT for years. Why are you just now popping up in my algorithm? Better late than never I guess. You're the only one who has oil-free recipes. Greatly appreciative of that.
Glad you found us! All of our recipes are whole food plant-based and salt, oil, and sugar free! You can browse our recipes here wellyourworld.com/pages/youtube-videos
I graduated high school 1980. I was “not knowing to me” and my family I was born a Vegan vegetarian. My parents dealt with it. I could tell more from the 70 and 80s.
I'm gonna go oil [lol, my typo....I meant BOIL] some whole wheat pasta (with a touch of salt in the water) and enjoy it with sauteed mushrooms, onions, red and green bell peppers:)
The truth, the facts, thank you! It is confusing to hear: intermittent fasting, exercise, smoothie drinks, water with vinegar. I believe you and thank you for this honest information.
Steamed broccoli for breakfast!!!!!! Genius. I love broccoli and crave savoury in the morning. I just had a bowl full with lemon juice and pepper. Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou. Lookout world, Im gonna look like a Supermodel 🤩😍
@@WellYourWorld Thanks!! Here it is as an example (from yesterday): Breakfast: 1 cup of oatmeal/shredded wheat mix with 2 tablspoons of goji berries and 4 walnuts and an apple. Lunch: huge salad (costco mixed spring greens and power greens) with 3-4 teaspoons of balsamic, half a baked sweet potato and another apple. Dinner: Two servings of soba noodles with no SOS added, only some sesame seeds sprinkled in with a teaspoon of miso paste mixed in (Dr Greger approved) and a bowl of strawberries. Usually I have no snacks and drink only water. Everything is SOS free except the miso which has salt. The background is that I lost 70 pounds from 300 lbs to 230lbs by fasting and eating SOS free, but I'm still teetering on obese and have been for at least two months with no more weight loss. I'm thinking about doing two salads per day instead of just one. Based on my height I need to get from my current weight (230) to between 170-200 to be considered healthy.
@@user-kr4jl6en7r Goji berries (dried fruit) are very calorie dense, swap those out for fresh or frozen berries. And shredded wheat is a fairly processed/high calorie density food, try using all oats instead of the mix. And dinner - Dr. Greger has said when trying to lose weight to cut out all flour. Soba noodles are made from flour, so more calorie dense. Try using a base of brown rice or quinoa or potatoes, which have a very high satiety factor and low calorie density. And of course add veggies with the grains, and ideally some beans or lentils. Hope this helps!
Me too, I found out I have POTS so I need extra salt so my BP doesn't dip too low. Finally got it to stay at 120/60! Passing out and feeling light headed constantly is not fun.
@@lizpimentel2566 oh I've never heard of that but I just looked up the symptoms and maybe I should get checked. I've always experienced that. If I'm not drinking enough coconut water and eating plenty of salt my heart will race and I get dizzy.
You are great Dillion , I agree with all you said. My problem is bread , toast with a vegan butter , soo good but I must give it up and find a substitute. Any suggestions please.
My husband is a food scientist. He works at a flour mill. He says that they supply white flour to fast food garbage. 😂 He sees things differently now than he used to because of the WFPB knowledge he has gained.
When I became a vegan about a year ago, I was already at a healthy weight but readily lost a few more pounds. It seemed to me what made the difference was the increased fiber.
I was SO disappointed when I realized the less I weighed, the less I could eat. It makes sense, though. You just don't need as many calories to sustain 120 pounds as you do for 170.
I’ve been Vegan for about 12 years. I’m Vegan for the animals. I was very overweight due to eating about twice the calories I should have. I simply got an app, calorie counted and walk 3 miles a day. Lost 50lbs and kept it off for years. When I gain a bit of weight, I just focus on my calorie goal again and weight comes down. My daily goal is 1200 calories. Your goal may be different. I’ve got control. It’s easy once you get on a routine. I still eat my veggies, my Vegan meats and some snacks. I just don’t overeat.
Question but I think I know the answer. I have people ask if I go into a carb coma, before I answer incorrectly, I want your opinion. I want to say that carb sleepiness is from the refined white flour carbs, not from 100% whole grain and especially Whole Foods carbs…. Comments
I eat steamed potatoes or brown rice and I STILL go into a post-meal coma. WFPB hasn’t helped that at all. Only when I eat ZERO whole carbs at a meal do I not experience this. Eaten this way 5 years now.
I’ve never experienced a carb coma before. I could ask around to see what some of the plant based doctors might have to say about it but I’ve never heard of this being a common experience.
Great tips to help with weight loss Dillon and another awesome video and love 🥰 it. My channel has been renamed from davidsallotment because I am now making vegan lifestyle content outside of gardening ( there will still be gardening videos) because I think gardening was restricting the channel.
I'm not sure I agree with the "salt makes food taste better" phrasing. Salt makes you have a stronger urge to eat it and to eat more of it but I'd like to think "tastes better" is a more sophisticated concept than just "makes us want to eat more".
@@WellYourWorld my point is that saying it as "salt makes the food 'taste better'" make it sound like leaving out the salt is depriving yourself of better tasting food as a strategy for weight loss.
I don’t see a problem. We “deprive” ourselves all day long of hyper-rich food that most everyone would call delicious. The best thing we can do for our bodies is allow whole food to gradually taste better over time by removing the food everyone thinks tastes good. I’ll post a video about taste bud adaptation in the coming weeks.
That stood out to me as well. I've had people say things to me like "I'd rather be overweight than suffer with bland food" Of course we all know that there are tons of seasonings to help transition off of salt - many WYW faves - and over time you learn to like the taste of the whole foods versus to things you add to it. My husband is really stuck on the salt and I know having it around makes it a challenge to stop using it completely. I agree 100% that if the same bowl of food has salt on it, I tend to overeat it!
You make way more sense than any weight loss or fitness guru who just feeds us garbage
Being Greek I was raised with the Mediterranean diet and never had problems with my weight. Although we rarely consumed fast food and red meat the amount of dairy and oil used in every meal was detrimental for my health. Since going WFPB 6 years ago I only lost 5 pounds but all my health markers are now on point. That is why everybody should try eating this way, even if weight is not an issue for them. Thank you so much for pointing out the importance of not consuming too much fat.
Thank you for sharing your experience Katerina!
Wow! I have never heard anyone explain this so well. I have lived this myself. I went WFPB and lost 25 pounds of the stubborn weight that never seemed to come off no matter what I did. I even had the plateau in the middle of it. Once I took out more of the seeds and nuts, my weight just went down. I couldn’t even stop it! I became a super healthy weight that I have been able to maintain now for years. I even was able to add back in some of the healthy fats and don’t have to think much about what I eat. Everything is delicious! Everything you are saying is absolutely 100%
yes
I ate two small heads of broccoli for the start of my breakfast today. I felt amazing as the hours passed.
Amazing start to your day!
@@WellYourWorld thank you!
You should write a book about this subject in your spare time. 🙃 But seriously, that was some excellent well balanced advice I need to put into practice. I’ve been struggling to get off the last 30-40 pounds for the last 3 years but I’m not giving up. Thanks for being here for all of us.
Eat.whole.foods. the end
So true! Many people are so set on a “diet” consisting of rules and restrictions. It makes them want to make eating a WFPB diet way more complicated than it ever has to be. The concept of eating as much tasty, nutrient dense, calorie light foods as you want until you are full just doesn’t compute for them, sadly.
Well said Carol!
Dillion, thank you! You put the science in easy to understand terms. I so appreciate it!
Dillon, I have to tell you, that was one of your best rants ever! I have been with you since pre-REEBS… Lol I love you guys, and I love the work you do, and you change my life! You were so on point! Just wanted you to know how much I appreciated this one… See I already know all of this from you, but I sent your stuff to some of my friends to help them! Awesome job!👍🏻👏👏👏
I stopped eating gluten and sugar for health reasons. Now I’m having trouble keeping the weight on! It’s amazing.
I love your message of keeping it simple. I very much resonate with this and it’s how I have continued eating this way for the past fourteen years. It is THE reason I can keep my family of four fed with healthy, whole plant foods. I just started making some videos of how I make super simple starch staples for our family, how to use the instapot etc. It can be so simple once your tastebuds adjust.
I needed this video! Thank you so much! I am so grateful for all your videos.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video Norma!
You are wise. Thanks for sharing. Spices have helped my taste buds stay interested and happy.
You're the best and only honest person on a whole food plant based lifestyle.
Amen brother. Very knowledgeable , clear and simple. I love the way you and Reebs put things together 🙏😊
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video!
WELL SAID!! Perfect explanation, one of my favorite videos along with your calorie density video that I hope everybody watches. Thanks for keeping it simple.
I want to show this to my mom because she is always trying to lose weight. She's done every diet out there and quits after 2 weeks and goes back to SAD. I keep telling her FIBER, VEGGIES, FRUIT!! I just hate seeing her waste money, time and energy on fad diets.
Facts! Great advice. I have come to embrace the plateau. 😮. Tells me my body is readjusting and recalibrating to a new weight. Resetting Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Of course, don’t want to stay there.
Spot on! I was eating avocado almost daily and snacking on nuts between meals which slowed my weight loss. Big mistake for me! Like you suggested, I took them out and I’m steadily losing 1 pound per week. I found I can snack on fruit instead of nuts and still lose weight.
I would love to download a copy of the low density chart you showed. Do you have that available?
THANK YOU So Much DILLON
Great plant-rant, Dillon!
Really smart and sensible!
This video is great! I love all the tips. I'm still struggling to lose weight with a WFPB lifestyle. I have to weigh / measure & track everything I eat, or I gain weight. I'm 15 pounds from my healthy weight, and I just can't seem to get there.
Very well articulated. All the points are covered.
Excellent video Dillon! Best plantrant I’ve heard yet.
Wise Words!!
Foodgasms 🤣
Only you can come up with a word like this ... love it 💕😊
I don’t think I get credit for adding gasm to the end of various words haha
What a confirmation brother
Wow, this is timely for me. Thanks!
On point, Dillon! Thank you!
I've been getting vegan recipes from YT for years. Why are you just now popping up in my algorithm? Better late than never I guess. You're the only one who has oil-free recipes. Greatly appreciative of that.
Glad you found us! All of our recipes are whole food plant-based and salt, oil, and sugar free! You can browse our recipes here wellyourworld.com/pages/youtube-videos
Excellent, thank you
I graduated high school 1980. I was “not knowing to me” and my family I was born a Vegan vegetarian. My parents dealt with it. I could tell more from the 70 and 80s.
I'm gonna go oil [lol, my typo....I meant BOIL] some whole wheat pasta (with a touch of salt in the water) and enjoy it with sauteed mushrooms, onions, red and green bell peppers:)
This video was really helpful. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
You make great points. Thank you.
The truth, the facts, thank you! It is confusing to hear: intermittent fasting, exercise, smoothie drinks, water with vinegar. I believe you and thank you for this honest information.
Steamed broccoli for breakfast!!!!!!
Genius.
I love broccoli and crave savoury in the morning.
I just had a bowl full with lemon juice and pepper.
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou.
Lookout world, Im gonna look like a Supermodel 🤩😍
That's awesome Barbara, keep up the good work!
Love it!
Thanks. Trouble for me is that I've been SOS free vegan for 7 months and my diet has hardly changed yet I'm still 40 lbs over weight.
Give us a detailed breakdown of what you eat daily and we can talk about it
@@WellYourWorld
Thanks!! Here it is as an example (from yesterday):
Breakfast: 1 cup of oatmeal/shredded wheat mix with 2 tablspoons of goji berries and 4 walnuts and an apple.
Lunch: huge salad (costco mixed spring greens and power greens) with 3-4 teaspoons of balsamic, half a baked sweet potato and another apple.
Dinner: Two servings of soba noodles with no SOS added, only some sesame seeds sprinkled in with a teaspoon of miso paste mixed in (Dr Greger approved) and a bowl of strawberries.
Usually I have no snacks and drink only water. Everything is SOS free except the miso which has salt. The background is that I lost 70 pounds from 300 lbs to 230lbs by fasting and eating SOS free, but I'm still teetering on obese and have been for at least two months with no more weight loss. I'm thinking about doing two salads per day instead of just one. Based on my height I need to get from my current weight (230) to between 170-200 to be considered healthy.
@@user-kr4jl6en7r Goji berries (dried fruit) are very calorie dense, swap those out for fresh or frozen berries. And shredded wheat is a fairly processed/high calorie density food, try using all oats instead of the mix. And dinner - Dr. Greger has said when trying to lose weight to cut out all flour. Soba noodles are made from flour, so more calorie dense. Try using a base of brown rice or quinoa or potatoes, which have a very high satiety factor and low calorie density. And of course add veggies with the grains, and ideally some beans or lentils. Hope this helps!
Well said!
I will never remove salt 😂😂 but I don't have a tendency to overeat and my bp is subclinically low.
same and same! my bp usually runs around 95/55, no salt makes me feel like crap. Some of us actually need a little salt
Me too, I found out I have POTS so I need extra salt so my BP doesn't dip too low. Finally got it to stay at 120/60! Passing out and feeling light headed constantly is not fun.
@@lizpimentel2566 oh I've never heard of that but I just looked up the symptoms and maybe I should get checked. I've always experienced that. If I'm not drinking enough coconut water and eating plenty of salt my heart will race and I get dizzy.
You are great Dillion , I agree with all you said.
My problem is bread , toast with a vegan butter , soo good but I must give it up and find a substitute. Any suggestions please.
Hi Lorraine, we will talk about this during our live hangout next Thursday 6/15 at 4pm PDT!
@@WellYourWorld thank you, will. Be able to see this afterward as I am in Ireland 🇮🇪
My husband is a food scientist. He works at a flour mill. He says that they supply white flour to fast food garbage. 😂 He sees things differently now than he used to because of the WFPB knowledge he has gained.
I am sure it is eye opening being in that position!
When I became a vegan about a year ago, I was already at a healthy weight but readily lost a few more pounds. It seemed to me what made the difference was the increased fiber.
I was SO disappointed when I realized the less I weighed, the less I could eat. It makes sense, though. You just don't need as many calories to sustain 120 pounds as you do for 170.
But only calories. You can still get full full full at every meal. Just adjust the calorie density over time.
Thank you 😊 ❤❤❤
I live in ontario canada income and food costs are very different here
I’ve been Vegan for about 12 years. I’m Vegan for the animals. I was very overweight due to eating about twice the calories I should have. I simply got an app, calorie counted and walk 3 miles a day. Lost 50lbs and kept it off for years. When I gain a bit of weight, I just focus on my calorie goal again and weight comes down. My daily goal is 1200 calories. Your goal may be different. I’ve got control. It’s easy once you get on a routine. I still eat my veggies, my Vegan meats and some snacks. I just don’t overeat.
Read "The Secret Life of Plants" you will love it.
Hey Dillon, What's your thoughts on unsweetened protein powders ? I've read that older women should be eating more protein.
I prefer whole food. Unless your plant based doctor suggests it, I don’t see why someone would take protein powder just because they are getting old.
Question but I think I know the answer. I have people ask if I go into a carb coma, before I answer incorrectly, I want your opinion. I want to say that carb sleepiness is from the refined white flour carbs, not from 100% whole grain and especially Whole Foods carbs…. Comments
I eat steamed potatoes or brown rice and I STILL go into a post-meal coma. WFPB hasn’t helped that at all. Only when I eat ZERO whole carbs at a meal do I not experience this. Eaten this way 5 years now.
I’ve never experienced a carb coma before. I could ask around to see what some of the plant based doctors might have to say about it but I’ve never heard of this being a common experience.
Truth!
Is raw cocoa powder okay to use ?
sure
I’m steaming broccoli for breakfast, as I watch this . Wish me luck!
What is the link for your high density diet video please
ua-cam.com/video/rKp4goRifas/v-deo.html
Brokkoli for breakfast? How about omelette with vegetables?
Can I eat your recommended foods on my senior income. It's just me
Great tips to help with weight loss Dillon and another awesome video and love 🥰 it. My channel has been renamed from davidsallotment because I am now making vegan lifestyle content outside of gardening ( there will still be gardening videos) because I think gardening was restricting the channel.
Omg….what you said about salt!! Yes. I would eat so much less without salt.
Hi friend!
Hi!
How tall are you?
I'm not sure I agree with the "salt makes food taste better" phrasing. Salt makes you have a stronger urge to eat it and to eat more of it but I'd like to think "tastes better" is a more sophisticated concept than just "makes us want to eat more".
There is only one reason why you eat more of something because of putting salt on it. Forget about the sophistication.
@@WellYourWorld my point is that saying it as "salt makes the food 'taste better'" make it sound like leaving out the salt is depriving yourself of better tasting food as a strategy for weight loss.
I don’t see a problem. We “deprive” ourselves all day long of hyper-rich food that most everyone would call delicious. The best thing we can do for our bodies is allow whole food to gradually taste better over time by removing the food everyone thinks tastes good. I’ll post a video about taste bud adaptation in the coming weeks.
That stood out to me as well. I've had people say things to me like "I'd rather be overweight than suffer with bland food" Of course we all know that there are tons of seasonings to help transition off of salt - many WYW faves - and over time you learn to like the taste of the whole foods versus to things you add to it. My husband is really stuck on the salt and I know having it around makes it a challenge to stop using it completely. I agree 100% that if the same bowl of food has salt on it, I tend to overeat it!
Hi Dillon and Reebs💖💖💖
Hi Valerie! ❤️
I’m not receiving the free downloads for the meal rotator
Please email hello@wellyourworld.com and we can send it to you directly.
❤😮spot on as always 🎉 thanks Dillion for your videos 🎉😮❤
Well said!