weight loss
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Success StoriesSee articleFacing Prediabetes, I Ditched Fast Food for Plant Foods
I used to live off highly processed snacks and fast food, often eating entire pizzas and boxes of fried chicken. You name any fast-food chain, and I can tell you exactly what my go-to order was. As much as I loved eating that stuff, I didn’t love how I felt afterward. Every night, I tossed […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Lost 400 Pounds, Reversed 3 Chronic Diseases on a Whole-Food Vegan Diet
I come from a family who ate like most Americans eat, and got the diseases that many Americans get. I lost my father to liver cancer, my mom to leukemia, my sister to brain cancer, and my grandparents to heart disease and cancer. The pain of losing so many family members took its toll. I […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMy Husband and I Lost 35 Pounds Each on a Plant-Based Diet, and We Never Felt Deprived
I struggled with my weight for nearly 30 years. First, it was from having children. Then, a few years ago, I began to experience that thickening of the midsection that often happens to women as they hit their 50s and approach menopause. My waist grew to 44 inches, about 10 inches too big for my […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow Working from Home Helped Me Lose 90 Pounds
I’ve always been athletic. In college, I played a few years of football and then joined the competitive cycling teams. But proper nutrition was a missing piece for me. I grew up on a typical Southern diet, with lots of pork, chicken, and veggies cooked in fat, and I continued to eat that way as […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMy 30 Years of Joint Pain Lifted Within Months on a Plant-Based Diet
In 1988, I began developing recurring migratory abdominal, thoracic, and joint pain associated with recurring low-grade fevers. Essentially, my whole body felt inflamed and bloated. At times, it was a miserable existence, living through recurrent fevers, pain, and inflammation, all the while trying to raise a young family and run a thriving podiatry practice. Over […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Ditched Meat, Dairy, Highly Processed Foods… and Half of My Body Weight
I consider myself the Every Woman, the one who spent most of her life either planning to go on a diet, struggling on a diet, crashing and burning on a diet, or beating herself up after having failed on a diet. Throughout childhood and adolescence, I was self-conscious about the 20 to 30 extra pounds […] -
Success StoriesSee articleA Life-Threatening Stroke Spurred Me to Try a Plant-Based Diet, and I’ve Never Looked Back
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, I was a pretty active kid. I lived for playing outdoors with my brothers, Bryan and Bobby, and our friends. I loved playing baseball and ice hockey. I started working out in my late teens and carried that into my 20s. But in my 20s is when I began abusing […] -
Success StoriesSee articleConquering Addiction to Processed Foods on a Plant-Based Diet
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2021. Scroll to the end for an inspiring 2025 update from Evon, including how she stays on track. I struggled with being overweight for most of my adult life. At my heaviest, I was 250 pounds. I managed to shed around 50 pounds after going pescetarian in […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMy Journey from Junk-Food Vegan to Whole-Food, Plant-Based
I began dabbling in a raw vegan diet for my health in 2005, but I could never fully commit to it and always ended up going back to a standard American diet high in meat, cheese, and processed foods. In 2013, I decided to try going just vegan, and I was able to stick with […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow I lost 100 Pounds in a Year on a Plant-Based Diet
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2021. Scroll to the end for an inspiring 2025 update from Pamela on how her health and life have continued to improve. Growing up, I never had a problem with excess weight, and in fact, I tended toward being underweight. I ate meat, but I ate lots of […] -
WellnessSee articleWebinar Replay: Lose Weight for Good with a Healthy Plant-Based Diet, Featuring Dr. Anthony Lim
Have you found some weight-loss success, only to hit a frustrating plateau in your progress? Losing weight is rarely easy, but it is very possible to shed excess pounds—and keep them off—once you understand not just what to eat, but also how to eat. In this webinar, Dr. Anthony Lim, medical director of the McDougall […] -
Success StoriesSee articleFrom Obese Vegetarian to Fitter Than Ever on a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet
I’ve struggled with weight for most of my life. I was the big kid who got teased on the playground and then the big adult who got called names behind his back and to his face. Food was my emotional escape, and I formed a toxic relationship with eating. I’d binge eat in secret and […]