I “downgraded” to Piyo – something I had done before and had seen pretty good results. Back on it for a week now and seeing the love handles melt off already and muscles all sore from the slow yoga-like movements. But bored of it having done it for a while before so I started checking out DDP yoga after coming across it in a YouTube video. Sounds like a good alternative: no heavy weights (just body weight) and yoga hybrid for good stretches.

About the weight part. Being vegan doesn’t mean your diet is necessarily “clean” as you put it. My wife was on a vegan diet for a while and she did not lose any weight from that. In most of the cases, the culprit is the simple carbs like pasta, rice, bread, etc… Those spike your insulin levels and then everything goes goes kaboom. DDP yoga sounds a lot harder than Piyo and having lost weight with just Piyo combined with reduced carb diet, I can safely guess that I’ll lose even more weight with DDP yoga. And I’d urge you to try cutting out the simple carbs like I did. You can still have a “cheat day” once a week and load up on the carbs; it’s actually strongly recommended you do to help reset the body chemistry and fat burning capabilities.

Not all carbs are bad. Those from vegetables and other sources (complex carbs) are fine that take a while to turn into sugar in the body. It’s the simple carbs that breakdown too fast and turn into sugar in the body that causes people to retain the weight. If you’re eating a lot of these carbs, then you’ll hardly lose any weight no matter what exercise you do… well, unless you’re doing extreme kind of exercises I suppose, but that’s not how I want to spend my waking hours.

Cheers and best wishes!