The VegStart Diet Tips

Write down your goals. A good way to help stay accountable to your success and your intentions is to keep a journal or log detailing your personal diet goals and track your progress. When you look at these notes as you get farther along on your weight loss journey, it also serves as a nice reminder of how far you’ve come. A...

Sleep is the unsung hero of your diet. When you sleep the hormones that regulate hunger—ghrelin and leptin—are impacted. Think of ghrelin is the gremlin since it drives appetite up. Whereas leptin is the hero, since it works as an appetite queller, and calms hunger down. When yo...

Omega 3 fatty acids, typically sourced from fish oil, can also be found in vegan sources such as walnuts and algae. The fish doesn't produce it, after all, since it gets it from the marine plants it eats, so when you take algae, you're just cutting out the middleman, or swimmer...

You’ve probably heard the phrase a thousand times over, but drinking enough water is crucial if you’re looking to lose weight. It helps in three ways: By suppressing your appetite, increasing your body's metabolic rate and increase your energy expenditure. To figu...

Counting calories is not the point of a healthy diet, but it does help to know generally how much you're eating every day. Even more important than calories is to try to hit your fiber and protein numbers for the day, and it's much more fun to add up good nutrients than to worry about how many calories you're taking in...