173 | The #1 Thing To Avoid If You’re Eating Plant-Based for Weight Loss

Here's the number one thing you need to avoid when you're trying to eat plant-based for weight loss.

And it's this.

Don't focus on the scale and use that to track your success with plant-based eating.

Instead, focus on the lifestyle itself and making plant-powered changes in the way you eat.

That's a much healthier and more effective focus to have.

Because here's the truth.

While it's true that for some people, moving to a plant-based diet can result in rapid weight loss, for most people, that's not the case.

That's because there are so many factors and considerations that can influence the rate of weight loss on a plant-based diet.

These need to be taken into account because they can impact the speed at which numbers change on the scale.

Some of these factors include how quickly and fully you move to a complete whole food plant-based diet, your ability to be physically active, the actual plant-based foods you eat, and how much you are usually eating in your meals.

And these factors are just the tip of the iceberg.

Working with an experienced plant-based dietitian can mean less frustration and more confidence in reaching your weight goals, while achieving the best nutrition and lifelong health.

Since most of us are making a gradual diet transition into a plant-powered lifestyle, we need to accept that the extra weight on our bodies will also be lost gradually, instead of being dropped instantly overnight.

That's just not realistic to expect.

Yet, many who start their plant-based diet journeys are expecting this.

They feel they have started making changes to the way they eat, and within a week or two, they are expecting to also see movement on the scale.

They don't realize that weight changes eating plant-based can take time because it is dependent on so many factors.

But the scale may stay the same, and then there is disappointment and frustration, so much so that some quit eating plant-based soon after, saying it doesn't work for them.

Has this been your experience? There's this too.

If you've had a history of weight loss attempts and weigh yourself frequently, you'll know this.

Numbers on a weight scale can fluctuate quite quickly, sometimes even within the space of a single day.

There are so many factors that can impact the scale, so you need to almost take what numbers you see there with a pinch of salt.

They are not always the most reliable, so you cannot base your whole weight loss success on the digits you see when you weigh yourself.

This is a very important mindset key to remember.