4 Steps to kick-start your plant based diet

Hey, today I would like to talk about food again. And in this post, you will find a step-by-step guide on how to start your plant-based diet.

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Step 1: Choose Your Type of Plant-Based Nutrition

A spectrum of plant-based eating options is available to you. Considering that your nutrition will be mainly coming from plants, your options are: 

1. Strict plant-based diet (vegan): With a strict plant-based nutrition, you are not going to consume any meat, fish or animal products like dairy foods, honey or eggs. 
2. Vegetarian plant-based diet: In a vegetarian plant-based nutrition, you will be able to consume eggs, milk, cheese and other products of animals but no meat or fish. 
3. Pescatarian plant-based diet: The pescatarian plant-based nutrition is similar to the vegetarian one but include fish. That would mean that your nutrition includes plant-base food, eggs, milk, cheese, fish and other products of animals but no meat.
4. Flexitarian plant-based diet: This option is great for individuals who would like to slowly move into plant-based eating without fully committing to never eat meat again. In this plant-based nutrition option, your meals will have a large proportion of plant-base food. In addition to small portions of eggs, or dairy foods and, on occasion, include meat, fish, seafood or poultry. 

Step 2: Adapt Your Grocery

In order to ease yourself into plant-based eating, try to slowly increase the amount of plant-base food on your grocery list and stop purchasing animal protein and dairy products. Stock up on cans of legumes such as black beans or chick peas. They are fast and easy ingredients to add to many recipes (just make sure they are not full of sugar or salt). This might require a bit more shopping time at first but eventually, you will know which brand is the healthiest.

Step 3: Plan Your Meals

One of the most difficult parts about adapting to plant-based eating is to adopt new habits in the kitchen. Instead of having burgers for dinner, you have to find new ways to cook and bring more plant-based food at your table. It is recommended to try new recipes as opposed to try to adapt your old recipes to a plant-based nutrition. 

Step 4: Let’s Do This! 

The best way to start plant-based eating is to make small changes now. Choose a day this week when you want to have a plant-based nutrition day. That day will be the beginning of your journey in plant-based eating. Once you’ve chosen a date, pick your recipes! 

Takeaway

If you would like to learn more about plant-based diet, I have written a guide exactly for this occasion. It called Plant-based Eating: A beginners guide to optimal health, sustainable weight loss and increased energy.

With the help of this guide, you will be ready to step into the world of plant-based eating in no time and set yourself up for success.

• You will learn about plant-based nutrition.
• You will learn about the science behind plant-based eating.
• You will discover the steps to transition to a plant-based nutrition.
• You will discover plant-based recipes.
• You will learn tips to reach success.
• And how to implement a plant-based nutrition in your lifestyle.
• And much more!

The cost of the book is only $7. You can buy it here. Enjoy!

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