If you turn Vegan, eating wise, & are strict (no cheating) about it, then you will eventually (if you started overweight-obese) will never be overweight-obese, for as long as maintain being a strict Vegan.
Now that I am eating a lot more processed, salted & sugary Vegan foods*,
*- Because revolution for the worst has happen in Vegan eating,
When I started it was not Capitalist popular as now, so it was not possible, 30-years ago.
I wonder if I was always wrong,
I have always been Vegan thin, genes & always active enough, that hard for me to become overweight-obese,
I leaning towards (with a lot more processed, salted & sugary Vegan foods introduced into one’s way of strictly eating Vegan) would NOT result in overweight-obese Vegans.
What do you readers think?
I am not saying being thin is being healthy enough,
Gaining weight has nothing to do with the food consumed being processed, sugary, salty, fatty, high protein or whatever. It’s all about calories.
You can eat 4 kg of boiled potatoes every single day and become overweight.
Actually it does, not all calories are the same. Calories from Green Plants are not as bad as processed, sugary, salty, fatty Calories.
Well kinda. If you have lots of fiber then the theoretical energy value (in germany we say “brennwert” as it is measured by burning the stuff) does not result in as much energy actually used.
Also if you eat lots of “soft fiber” (that can be split up by gut bacteria) you feed them, which is extremely important and leads to a way healthier body.
So in theory yes, calories are different because they are not an accurate measurement of what energy actually ends up in your system.
But if you compare effectively consumed calories that actually end up in your body (like olive oil vs some animal fat), apart from health benefits, you will gain the same weight.