r/PlantBasedDiet

I was plant based for 5 years and loved it, although I felt like I was lacking protein and was eating a lot more carbs than any other macro. I have noticed some physical body changes like more fat on my body and reduced muscle, although this could just be that I’m in my 30’s now (I’m a female).

How important do you find protein? Is it more important to eat a diverse amount of plant foods and foods with a good amino acid profile vs worrying about the protein amount? Any in here that has been working out and is successfully toning your body and losing fat eating this way?

Cancelled my Noom subscription last week after fr months of struggling to log food. And no its not my first day on this earth using tech. Every single time I searched for like a tofu scramble or a vegan protein bar it either didn't exist in their database or the closest match was some dairy version with different macro profile. The lessons weren't much better. Felt like they were written for someone eating chicken breast every night and vegetables were just a thing to have on the side. I liked having something to check in with daily and the structure kept me from falling off. But got tired all the searching and doing extra math in my head every time I ate.

Got any recs for some alternatives to Noom that worked for people here?

Has anyone used just egg to make breakfast casserole and how did it turn out?

So there's this man - Dr. Khader Vali, also known as the "Millet Man" of India.

He DOES indeed recommend a whole food plant based diet, but he goes even further so as to say that there are 5 special kinds of millets (foxtail, browntop, kodo, barnyard, little) that provide tremendous health benefits when they're cooked properly and eaten. He also recommends a special kind of porridge-concoction out of these millets that he calls "Ambali" that he says introduces and fosters growth of good gut bacteria.

He claims that a diet with these 5 millets and Ambali and with other WFPB foods, can reverse many kinds of diseases, including those generally considered incurable like diabetes, PCOS, and certain kinds of cancers as well.

He's said that he indeed has reversed many people's chronic illnesses through this diet. Not only does he recommend this diet for people with illnesses, but to everybody and says that such a diet is optimal, ideal, and the best possible diet, that can provide wholesome and complete nutrition for the human body.

He's against consumption of rice and wheat - saying that they've come into fashion only due to mass production, industrialization and commercialization of food, urbanization of society, fast-paced consumerist culture. And that apparently, millets are actually the original diet that humans have been having for thousands of years prior to industrialization, and hence perfect for us nutritionally as well as environmentally far superior to rice and wheat.

He has views against foods like soy, chocolate, quinoa, GMO food, R.O.-purified water, bottled water; and he has views against some kinds of exersize. As I watched various podcasts of him, he seems like a typical old man who has rigid and wrong views about some things. But on the whole, I think he has done a great service of bringing a lot of awareness about millets and their benefits.

Just wanted to write about this. It's sounds pretty impressive, and I want to try out his recommendations. Is there anybody here who eats millets regularly... any comments?