Sat, Jun-16-07, 18:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 388
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Plan: Nutritarian
Stats: 248/208/168
BF:Waist 46?/34/?
Progress: 50%
Location: British Columbia
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I am not familiar with Rose Elliot, but if you want to low carb as a vegan, you will have a challenge getting carbs down to 40% of calories. Your best bet would be to do something close to what I am doing - Eat to Live, tweaked a bit to low carb by limiting starchy vegetables and grains, and favouring fruits low in sugar over those high in sugar. Since it is not really a low carb diet, I posted about it in the War Zone.
Green vegetables have a high percentage of calories from protein, and pulses are pretty decent too. If you avoid overdoing fruit, starch and grains, you will have about 1g protein for every 2g net carbs. I get about 60g fibre a day, and that took some getting used to, but 'tis ok now. With eat to live if you need to limit sugar (diabetic or very overweight) you can count red bell peppers and tomatoes as fruit servings.
You can increase calories without increasing carbs too much by including seeds, nuts and avocadoes.
Judith, can you post a bit more about Rose Elliot? What is her plan? Have fun with it.
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