I was vegan for a month. In the first 2 weeks, I lost 8 pounds. But as soon as I noticed this, I started eating more food, and using more olive oil in my food, and gained those pounds back in the next 4-6 weeks.
You'd be surprised how much more pizza you can eat when you have no cheese on it. Its obviously the cheese that's filling you up, because w/o cheese, I could put away twice as much pizza.
I don't call myself vegan, and I'm sure "real" vegans wouldn't call me one even though I hardly ever eat dairy, and probably only eat meat once a week or so. But I did learn to cut back on certain foods as a result of my vegan trial.
The "instant weight-loss" thing you hear about with pro-vegan stories obviously didn't work for me though (see 1st paragraph). I think that just goes to show that, for me at least, weight loss is more about the psychology of your eating habits than the than the actual food you eat.
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