Howdy, notforlong! I want to encourage you to stick with it, 'til you get results. I went two months without any success, before finally turning the corner.
Just so you know, I am (mostly) vegan, and have been for almost 20 years. I say "mostly" because, on occasion...especially at restaurants...I will eat vegetarian, either for convenience or some transient reason. While trying to lose weight, I have eaten eggs a few times. (My husband is not vegan.)
Despite my normally vegan diet, I began to gain weight about 5-6 years ago. Turns out, the insulin resistance associated with my PCOS was the cause (at least, that appears to be the case, at this point). Now that I'm addressing that, I am steadily losing weight.
YOU might be interested in what I eat, so I'll give you some examples.
For breakfast, I usually eat Irish oatmeal or steel cut oats or quinoa (I like it teriyaki or with tamari sauce). I also typically have some fruit (fresh pineapple, papaya, or a banana). I often have coffee (now that I'm trying to lose weight), but I also have beet or acai juice.
Other meals include a spinach salad with sesame seeds and balsamic vinegar (with a citrus, for best iron absorption), curry lentil soup, baked beans, or homemade fennel or vegetable soup with bok choy.
A snack might be edamame, a piece of wholegrain bread with blackstrap molasses + grapefruit juice (for iron), a piece of fruit (typically an apple) or tomato juice plus 3-5 almonds, pistachios, walnuts, or Brazil nuts (yes, I count them out beforehand), or spicy hummus with a 4" wholegrain pita.
Of course, that's just a sampling......
I used to like my Cajun style red beans & rice dish, but I find eating rice (or pasta...even brown rice or whole wheat pasta) for dinner pretty much guarantees a higher number on the scale the following morning. So, for now, my intake of rice, bread, and pasta is extremely limited. Once I reach my target weight, I will relax a bit about having those foods from time to time, depending on the results. (Many of my, and my husband's, favourite, homemade, vegan dishes include rice or pasta, wouldn't you know.). But I do still eat a slice of wholegrain bread, or use a small, wholegrain pita for dipping hummus. If I do eat rice or pasta, I limit it to just a few mouthfuls.
Good vegan sources of protein are (the complete proteins) soy, hemp, quinoa, salba, and spirulina, plus beans, nuts, legumes, oatmeal, and food combinations (such as red beans & rice/rice & peas). Most are self-explanatory, but the salba I use in ground form, and add it to appropriate dishes.
I do eat tofu maybe once or twice a month, normally. But since finally starting to lose weight about five or six weeks ago, I haven't had any. I tend to use almond milk (in place of cow's milk), and vegan spread/margarine in place of butter.
I'm no expert on weight loss or fitness, but if you have any vegan-related questions, feel free to ask me. I'll help if I can.
Best of luck!
