What food do you eat?

[Yassa]

I can see posts but not any advice/plan?

[Subtle_badger]

TheAwfulToad

[Subtle_badger]

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[Yassa]

No idea now as to how to lose weight!

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador in reply to Yassa]

Did you download the guide that Subtle_badger mentioned?

[Yassa in reply to TheAwfulToad]

I get the lower carb diet and plan to cut down carbs. But as a veggie a lot of it seems to be only eggs and veg which grows above ground. How about soya milks and quorn and other food? I’m more a vegan as I don’t like milk or milk products but I do like eggs.

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador in reply to Yassa]

Ideally, you'd want to avoid processed foods like quorn and soya milk. There's nothing wrong with them as such, but ... well, look, here's the ingredients for a quorn sausage:

Mycoprotein (41%), Rehydrated Free Range Egg White, Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed, Palm), Onion, Rusk (Wheat Flour, Yeast, Salt), Natural Flavouring, Casing (Stabiliser: Sodium Alginate; Cellulose, Modified Starch), Textured Wheat Protein (Wheat Flour, Stabiliser: Sodium Alginate), Firming Agents: Calcium Chloride, Calcium Acetate; Seasoning [Herbs (Sage, Parsley), Rapeseed Oil], Pea Fibre, Barley Malt Extract, Natural Caramelised Sugar.

It's not even 50% quorn; the rest is starch-based filler and flavourings. It's fairly harmless stuff, but probably best not used as a dinnertime staple if you're aiming for low-carb.

Unsweetened, unprocessed soya milk doesn't taste very nice, so almost anything you buy in tetrapacks is adulterated in some way. Soybeans themselves contains a lot of antinutritional factors and are probably best consumed only in smallish amounts.

Frankly, doing LCHF as a vegan (or near-vegan) isn't going to be much fun. Your best bet, I suggest, is to do a two-week keto phase as best you can - maybe you can use coconut oil, olive oil and avocado as your default fat sources - and then transition rather rapidly into a moderate-carb, low-glycemic-index diet rather than "classic" LCHF. In other words, you will include more legumes, and more moderately-starchy/sugary foods like carrots, turnips and fruit; perhaps small portions also of potatoes, rice, and suchlike. This should get you the result you want (weight loss and a better state of health) without being dangerously deficient.