I've been WFPB SOS free for almost a year and while the benefits have been amazing, I still feel alienated. Does that feeling ever go away?

At first I was excited to tell people about my lifestyle because I wanted everyone to know there was a way to fix many of their ailments with this lifestyle. I went through a phase of being fearful of my families choices. Now I pretty much keep it to myself.

I was recently excited to meet and share meals with some blue zone kitchen folks but it quickly turned sour as they "well actually'd' me asking what about WFPB SOS free was backed by scientific study. I mentioned the China studies and blue zone studies and was quickly shot down with "Those aren't scientific studies". I took them to nutritionfacts.org and explained that in the videos he mentions studies and links to them but they looked and Dr Greger's photo and said something about doctors claiming to be scientist then lost interest in my opinion.

I went from excitement to finally talk about it with people who would understand, to feeling more alienated than before. Does it ever get better? Do you ever reach a point where you just enjoy the benefits and not care that you have a different lifestyle than everyone around you?

The usual suspects: whole wheat bagel, hot sauce, avocado, nutritional yeast, roma tomato and more nutritional yeast.

Today I was out in a hurry and couldn’t eat breakfast. After a couple of hours I was very hungry and decided to stop in one of the big supermarket chains and get something from the mini bakery. Got 2 sesame pastries with olives.

No tag for allergens, no sign with ingredients, no nutritional value sticker for macros. I tried googling it online but couldn’t find anything about ingredients. Knew it couldn’t be “healthy” since it’s clearly made with white flour and they often put oil in those, but bought them anyways.

Later on when I had more time to kill I decided to try and dig further. It wasn’t obvious but I finally found them online…

Each one of these small, 80g unlabeled breads contained: 380kcal, 20g of fat (9 of which saturated) (sunflower oil and palm oil), sugar and eggs.

It’s always when you let your guard down that this happens.

It’s not the end of the world, but I still feel bad for purchasing something containing an animal product, and letting my guard down.

Imo, AT THE VERY LEAST bakeries/companies/stores should be required to put allergens tag on any baked goods.

I've found that I'm solid on my meals mostly due to a meal service I use in San Diego which is amazing but I get into trouble on snacks. I'd also like to make one of my meals more salad / greens but I'm trying to find or make good dressing or sauces to go with it.

I'm curious what everyone else is doing in between or for sauces and salads?

asking for a friend who is having issues getting rid of his belly fat, what advice would you give to him?

I'm hoping to bring chickpea salad to work in a wrap most days. But I haven't found whole grain wraps and I can't figure out how to make them without oil. Please share your favorite store bought wraps or recipes.

I love a treat of toast and plant based butter.

What are some alternatives other than nut butter that are wfpb? I usually have sucker's organic natural peanut butter. I have tried nutzoo varieties as well. I like them all but looking for alternatives.

Hi everyone! I recently switched from the SAD (standard American diet) to a plant-based diet for health reasons (i.e. to lower my cholesterol). I’m lucky enough to have access to a dining hall, so I have basically had the same salad for lunch and dinner - arugula or another leafy green as the base with cucumbers, grape tomatoes, shredded carrots, edamame, chickpeas, and black beans, all topped with olive oil and red wine vinegar as the dressing, plus a piece or two of whole wheat toast. I historically don’t eat breakfast, but I’m considering having oatmeal with walnuts and raisins to start the day. In between all this, I typically snack on a couple pieces of fruit (apples, bananas, and pears) throughout the day.

My two questions are:

1. Would you recommend having the oatmeal for breakfast or just fasting and starting the day with the salad for lunch?
2. Based on the meals listed here, do you think I need to take any vitamins or supplements to get the nutrients that I wouldn’t get through the salads alone?

I’m pretty new to the community, but I love how supportive it seems like you all are. Thanks for your help and advice with this!

Well, it happened again today...I mega-raided the big bag of walnuts that I had judiciously been extracting 15g from every day. The thought "this stuff is like crack" drifted through my head as the third or fourth handful began its descent to my stomach.

So nuts are on my list again, obviously, along with all dried fruit and bananas (I freeze them and eat them like candy).

With some foods, I must admit that I simply do not have the requisite self control to permanently prevent a binge. I may get away with it for a day, or a month, but eventually the hunger goblin will awaken and devour the horde.

Anyone else have anything that they need to keep far away, or else risk eating the entire stash?

I'm also currently bulking for gym so I'm in a caloric surplus. I ate 91 grams of fibre 😭

Feeling good 👍 never felt so full in my life lmao

My mom even bought a forks over knives recipe book, i was so excited. Guess what? Oil.

Like breakfast and lunch is easy because i just make whatever but for dinner i like to make propper recipe type meals and eeeevrything uses oil.

And starting next month my mom and i want to be really strict and cut out oil completely. Do you guys have any recommendations for online recipes and/or recipe books that are strict WF?

Edit: Okay so the FOK book I have is fake lmao. Thank you for the help guys

I’ve been WFPB for 2 months. I’m only missing Greek yogurt. I can’t find plain soy yogurt. I’ve tried plain cashew. It’s terrible.

Gout attacked when I switched to whole food plant based. The beans and some of the greens and vegetables just really made my system go crazy. Right now I am limited to low purine foods that don't exceed fifty milligrams per hundred grams of product - which leaves out all legumes, asparagus, oatmeal, brown rice, etc.). I am going nuts trying to figure out what I can eat that is low fat (because of liver problems) and plant based, but let's me get about 45 grams of protein in. Right now I'm getting around 20g. Doctors are promoting use of eggs and cheese for the protein and I won't do that.

I'd love any suggestions that you can give!

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