Weight Loss on a Plant-Based Diet: Dropping Pounds the Healthy Way

Weight loss can be an attractive benefit of a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. But it’s not a fad, miracle cure, or quick fix; it’s a complete lifestyle, and its benefits go far beyond shedding a few pounds.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 2 – Kelly Houseman

Tune in to see how committing to a WFPB lifestyle change affected Kelly’s weight loss and the management of her metastatic breast cancer.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 4 – Ben and Esther Loveridge

Not everyone will be ready for change at the same time. Setting a good example and being patient, especially with loved ones, goes a long way toward nourishing healthy behaviors.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 3 – Al Schmidt

Al’s story proves that it’s never too late to make a dietary change. At 80, he overcame his crippling cardiac disease with WFPB nutrition, and he’s still going strong!

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 1 – Tim & Heather Kaufman

Watch this inspirational video to learn how two members of our WFPB community have not just lost nearly 300 pounds, but also gained a new lease on life.

Married Couple Find Renewed Health & Lose a Combined 200 lbs With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

There’s no such thing as “too late.” Choosing health can have a profound effect on your life, and enrich the lives of those around you.

How a Nurse Practitioner Saved Her Health With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

The health journey isn’t always easy. It requires not just expert information, but also implementing what we learn in a way that sticks.

Cancer, Heart Disease, & Weight Loss: A Plant-Based Diet Rescued My Health

Although modern medicine’s first inclination is to fight disease, Bryan Jackson, cancer and heart attack survivor, suggests a friendlier approach- one that not only helps slow or reverse disease but helps the whole person.

Could Journaling be the Missing Link in Your Wellness Journey?

Food journaling is often a dreaded task for those trying to lose weight, but for Sharme it was key to her success.

WFPB Success: Changing My Life in 20 Days

Many people rationalize not switching to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, even if their heart and their gut tells them to. Beverly, a winner of Chef Del’s Diet Daze 20-Day Challenge, tells us what finally made her prioritize the switch to a healthier way of life.

I Reversed My Type 2 Diabetes With a Plant-Based Diet & Help From My Mom

Which sounds better—a lifetime of prescription drugs, or a fast-acting dietary lifestyle change that only has positive side effects?

Weight Loss & Cancer Management: How Whole Food, Plant-Based Support Helped Kelly

After years of on-and-off whole food, plant-based eating, Kelly fully committed to the WFPB lifestyle change and found great success in weight loss and managing her metastatic breast cancer.

The Support You Need: Tips to Help Maintain Your Weight Loss Goals

Weight loss goals are easier to achieve and maintain with the proper support. In this article, Del Sroufe gives his advice on types of support and community he finds helpful when it comes to his diet and health.

After Eating Plant-Based Daniel Said Goodbye to 160 lbs, Sleep Apnea, & Type 2 Diabetes

Daniel Caracciolo is a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) advocate who found great success in weight loss following this lifestyle. He is training for his first triathlon and aims to start a plant-based meal prep and catering business.

The Power of Support Groups in Lifestyle Change

Research has shown that education, skills development, and social support are critical for long-term lifestyle changes. Community-led plant-based programs can offer much more than traditional diet programs and clinical trials because they engage participants actively to learn how to incorporate healthy habits into established routines.

Chef Del’s Diet Daze Episode 1 — Interview With Dr. Thomas Campbell

Whether the whole food, plant-based diet is new to you or you follow the diet but could use some reinforcement, especially with regard to weight loss, Del Sroufe’s interview with Dr. Campbell is sure to be an enlightening one.

Time Restricted Eating: Nature’s Weight Loss Plan & Alternative to Intermittent Fasting

Time Restricted Eating is a similar weight loss technique to Intermittent Fasting (IF), but more moderate. Research shows you gain the same physiological benefits as with IF, and it is easier for most people to follow.

Scientific Review Finds Biological Link Between Dairy Consumption and Obesity

The inclusion of dairy as a food group and the aggressive recommendation of three servings of dairy a day may be contributing to the expanding waistlines of American youth (and adults as well).

I Lost 53 lbs & Reversed My Type 2 Diabetes With a Plant-Based Lifestyle!

I reversed my type 2 diabetes and I am now living an active lifestyle. No more checking blood glucose and no more taking medication!

Does the Ketogenic Diet Really Work for Weight Loss?

There is a claim that ketogenic diets offer a metabolic advantage over every other type of weight loss diet, including low-carb diets that aren’t ketogenic. Will a keto diet help you lose weight?

Changing Lives in Chattanooga – Oasis Jumpstart Provides Food, Education & Hope

The Oasis Jumpstart Program brings healthy food and science-based nutrition education to underserved neighborhoods across the country.

From 400 lbs & Disabled to Thriving Plant-Based Ironman & Ultrarunner

Tim struggled with addiction, chronic pain, and less than a year left to live. He was denied gastric sleeve surgery, but then he found hope and the plant-based lifestyle.

How I Cleared Up PCOS, Had Kids, and Lost Weight on a Plant-Based Diet

What a whole food, plant-based lifestyle did for my life - from obesity to climbing one of Colombia's highest volcanoes.

Healthy Weight Loss = 80% Nutrition + 20% Exercise

Many people feel the key to health is the opposite: 80% exercise + 20 % nutrition and stress management. I used to be one of them.