Keeping strength training going on a plant-based plate

Started 21 October 2024 · 23 replies · 273 hearts · read 4.2k times

MorayElgin, UK · 21 October 2024

1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Keeping strength training going on a plant-based plate Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

What I am after is the version of this that works when nobody is helping, because that is my situation and most accounts assume otherwise.

Every piece of advice I read appears to have been written for somebody with a completely different week from mine, so I am asking people whose weeks look like this.

If anybody has an arrangement that works and is willing to write it out, I would be very grateful.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

Something that helped was accepting a repetitive week. The same four things, most weeks, and my dietitian was entirely content.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Facilitator note: nothing in this circle is medical advice and the practical arrangements still need agreeing with whoever prescribes for you.

TanviMumbai, IN

My bloods have been unremarkable throughout, which I attribute mostly to a supplement I was already taking rather than anything clever.

NoleneDurban, ZA

Building on what Tanvi wrote rather than answering the original question.

I found the restaurant side harder than the home side. Two constraints at once narrows a menu considerably.

MableBolton, UK

Nolene said something I want to sit with for a second.

The soya question comes up here every few months and my dietitian was completely unbothered, which was a relief after a lot of internet noise.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

What I got wrong was relying on things that needed cooking. Everything that has worked is something I can eat without a decision.

PietPretoria, ZA

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

This is the honest version, and the honest version is harder to write.

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NemoneLewes, UK

What helped was two things I actually enjoy rather than five things I felt I should eat. The should list never survived a difficult week.

CloverTotnes, UK

#10

Gently disagreeing with Nemone, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience is that this is entirely workable and needs a bit more planning, and the planning is a one-off cost rather than a daily one.

MorayElgin, UK

#11

Something practical: I keep something ready in the fridge at all times, because when my appetite is low I will not cook.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

#12

My dietitian understood plant-based eating properly and that made an enormous difference compared to the general advice I had been given.

IvesPenzance, UK

#13

Reading Moray, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Pulses, tofu and a decent unflavoured powder are the whole of my system, and it took me a year to arrive at something that simple.

TanviMumbai, IN

#14

What worked for me was spreading it across the day rather than trying to get it all into one meal, which was never going to happen.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#15

Protein without it becoming a chore is the whole problem, and most of the advice assumes a plate I do not eat from.

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MableBolton, UK

#16

Coming back to what Ives wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

Coming back at two years to say it is completely routine now, that my bloods are fine, and that the planning stopped being work months ago.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#17

Nothing here is medical advice and on supplements in particular it is worth a proper conversation rather than a thread.

PietPretoria, ZA

#18

Bookmarking this. Thank you.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#19

I have nothing to add and I did not want to leave it unanswered.

NemoneLewes, UK

#20

Somebody in this circle wrote out their week for me when I asked and it saved me about three months of working it out badly.

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CloverTotnes, UK

#21

The B12 and iron conversation is worth having explicitly rather than assuming. Mine turned up something worth correcting.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#22

Stepping in to say that asking for help with logistics is not a smaller kind of asking. It is most of what makes this sustainable.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

#23

Clover — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I found the volume difficult when my appetite dropped. Plant protein takes up more room and there was less room available.