The name says it all! In the past 5 years, I have put on about 30 pounds that I would like to take back off. I know that a main point is that I don’t get enough protein to help my muscles properly restore after exercising (which I could actually do more off as well). I can’t have gluten, yeast or soy. Although I can sort of tolerate milk and eggs, I do have a sensitivity to them as well, just not as severe as the others. I don’t mind them in small amounts. Most of my diet is high-carb foods.
Help!!!!
There are several great sites out there with lots of support and great recipes.
Fat Free Vegan has a lot of gluten and soy free recipes and most are yeast free too (usually without gluten there’s little reason for yeast).
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/gluten-free/index.shtml
Then this site has a lot of Gluten Free and Soy Free as well as Dairy & Egg Free recipes and ideas:
http://glutenfreesoyfreevegan.blogspot.com/
I love this site but not so sure about the soy-freeness of it. There’s bound to be some things though because it is gluten-free:
http://glutenfreehippie.blogspot.com/
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As far as protein, it’s in nearly all foods except refined sugars and some alcohols (even beer has some). There are lots of high-protein plant-based foods but there are a lot of myths around protein including the amounts we need (the RDA is actually padded and yet despite that vegetarians still usually get twice that amount) and how harmful excess protein is to us (it is acidic causing calcium to be drawn from our bones to balance the alkalinity of our blood) and unlike calcium, excess protein is not stored but is processed through and is hard on our kidneys, and gall bladder among others.
http://www.soystache.com/plant.htm#Source
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/protein_myth.html
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/09/the-great-protein-myth/
There are plenty of vegan athletes including bodybuilders:
http://wweek.com/editorial/3436/11241/
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/