Sample day in the veganized 4HB diet

Even though I will be changing my diet pretty soon to include some fruit and increase variety, this is a sample of what I've been eating in the veganized 4HB for the past 2.5 months. I haven't lost weight, but I have definitely increased muscular mass.

Breakfast: brown rice protein shake in unsweetened almond milk, 1 cup lentil scramble

Lunch: Lentil soup with kale and 2 veggie links; or vegan chili with meat-less ground meat

Mid-afternoon snack: 15 cashews; or a bunch of kale chips

Dinner: Baby spinach salad with nooch, 2 veggie burgers; or baby spinach with guacamame; 1 glass of red wine

Dessert: 2 tsp almond butter, or chia seed chocolate pudding

Soon I will be posting my training schedule. I am playing around with it, and starting HIIT to see if I can loose those 10 pounds :)

See ya!

Elvira.

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Veganized 4HB breakfast (attempt #2)

Hi everybody!

So I have decided to optimize my "veganized 4HB" diet, basically by removing tofu from it: seems like it was not allowed, at least in the quantities I have been having it :D. I think my body reacts to it too, probably some mild allergy?

So my principal concern was breakfast. I used to have one protein shake (almond milk + 2 scoops rice protein) and 1 serving of tofu scramble to meet the protein requirements for breakfast. Now, I am having my protein shake plus... wait for it... LENTIL SCRAMBLE! Well, it is not technically "scramble", but...

Here it goes the recipe:

- 3 cans of cooked organic lentils, drained and rinsed (it is better if you cook your own lentils, as canned beans have higher GI, but I was in a rush ;))

- 4 garlic cloves, minced

- 13 oz crushed tomatoes (half a big can)

- some mushrooms (I use a packet of trader's joe fresh sliced mushrooms)

- thyme to taste

- salt to taste

- 2 Tablespoons olive or macadamia oil.

This is SUPER EASY. Just fry the garlic in oil till golden, then add mushrooms and tomato, and let it cook till the tomato thickens. At this point I add salt and thyme, or any other spice you want to use. When the sauce is thick enough, I turn off the heat and add the lentils, mix all, and ready to go!

This amount of lentils lasts for 6 days aprox., it all depends on how hungry you are in the mornings :)

Enjoy!

E.

PD, It is amazing, I don't get gassy when I eat lentils, so I can abuse as much as I want :)

My problems on the veganized 4HB diet

Well well well, I have been on this diet for almost 3 months now, with little success. Not because the diet doesn't work (I guess it does), but most likely because I didn't manage to adjust it to my vegan lifestyle.
I don't consider I have wasted my time, but there are some things that necessarily need to be fixed.

1. I don't get enough protein if I don't add excessive amounts of tofu. I like tofu, but I think my body doesn't like it as much as I do. Also I think it's a food that in this diet is kind of "forbidden", so then I am cheating every day big time :(
2. An alternative is eating huge amounts of beans, and definitely that it's not good for me either. Let's put it simple: I have so much gas that I could fly ;)
3. I have managed to find comfort food, and I abuse of it. I prepare a chocolate tofu pudding I took from the vegetarian south beach diet, and I just cannot stop till I finish the whole thing!
4. I snack a lot, and specially nuts. I'm going nuts for nuts! Now I try to eat only 15 cashews, but I swear I could eat the whole bag. Or devour the whole PB jar.
   
5. I don't have enough energy in the gym from day 1. Definitely that is really bugging me. Now I cannot even run for 5 min without panting. I don't like the idea that I am probably loosing shape on this diet. I used to go 5 times a week and now I go only 3, and hardly.
   

So I am trying to get back on track, but it's not going to be easy. I have acquired some bad habits that it would be difficult to get rid of. I'm thinking about doing 2 more weeks (that would be 12 weeks total), and then go to South Beach diet phase 2 but keeping breakfast of 4HB (rice protein shake on almond milk plus tofu scramble). Then I can start planning on starting over on 4HB later on.
What do you think?

E.