What Happens When You Switch to a Plant-Based Diet: An Honest Timeline
Nobody gives you a map on day one. Here’s the honest plant-based diet timeline, including the two rough patches most people quit in, and roughly when each one ends.
Nobody gives you a map on day one. Here’s the honest plant-based diet timeline, including the two rough patches most people quit in, and roughly when each one ends.
Two different things get called night hunger, and they need opposite fixes. Here’s the thirty-second test that tells you which one you’re in, and what actually works for the common one.
Not an aspirational list. The twenty-odd things that are in our trolley most weeks, what each one is for, and the five aisles we walk past.
The foods a plant-based diet is built on are the cheapest things in the shop. The expensive part is everything people add around them.
Every whole plant food contains all twenty amino acids. The useful question is not where the protein is, but how much you need and what happens when you chase more.
We changed how we ate in February 2017. What happened to our weight, allergies and bloodwork, how long the cravings really took, and what a normal week looks like now.
Boredom with your food is not a motivation problem and it is rarely fixed by new recipes. It is usually a technique problem, and it arrives on a schedule.
No food burns fat. But belly fat is the kind that responds fastest to what you eat, and the reason why is genuinely encouraging.
No food burns fat. But some foods have specific numbers attached to them that are worth knowing, and the doses are smaller than you would guess.