@Inquisitive_ are u a vegan?
Vegan diet made me gained 15kgs, there's no way going back to vegan.
Avoiding sugar (cane, honey, fructose, corn syrup etc) and refined carbs like white pasta or white flour.
No! but if you were truly on a vegan diet you would never put on 15kg unless you were anorexic to start off with, your were on a vegan diet in your mind but practically you were not.
The greatest mistake vegans make is the consumption of oily foods, trans-fat, hydrogenated oil along with all the hidden dairies that come with biscuits etc. I don't blame them because without 80% starch daily, your body will begin to crave those things and you will not be able to resist it regardless how disciplined you are.
There is nothing wrong with natural sugar, fruits are filled with it as is honey mentioned as a cure in the Quran and also the favourite food of our Prophet along with dates, sugar doesn't turn into fat but is stored as glycogen, it's one of the greatest lies ever told that natural sugar is stored as fat.
I went on a low Carb diet several times over 10 years and each time I felt sick, low energy and ended up gaining much more weight in the end then I ever had, it's not natural to the body, you just have to look at the people that invented these diets, here is MR low Carb Atkins, the same stories with those whom push all these
You lost the amount i am planning to loose now (after gaining weight because of childbirth and chocolate). How many times did you workout and what did you eat?
The chocolate you were eating is high in trans fat/hydrogenated fat (synthetic fat unnatural to the human body hence stored as fat). This craving will only stop if you switch to a starch based diet which will give you all your nutritional needs and hence stop all the cravings.
80% is what you put in your body and 20% is workout, you will loose even without working out but what you will find is that if you do this correct (no meat, no diary, no oils) and only starch based foods you will have so much energy your forced into exercise naturally.
Previously with all the other FAD diets discipline and will power brought me to exercise against the bodies own will power, but when I switched it up and went to what the entire humanity used to used including our ancestors (grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables) I would walk for hours a day and love exercise (football/basketball/gym) on a daily basis with only injuries holding me back.