I'd agree on everything you wrote here.

Only after writing my replies did I scroll further down in your posts to find out that you're coming from the opposite corner as you formerly had lots of meat in your diet.

My perspective was more from the vegetarian/vegan side of things. I know a few people who're eating vegan/vegetarian diets and are struggling with a bit too much weight. My reasoning is that vegans (and vegetarians who don't eat much cheese or other protein rich dairy) are adding another challenge on top for themselves through their diet (in combination with the typical low exercise lifestyle) by skipping on meat. Because they'd basically have to have legumes like beans or lentils as a component of *every* meal in order to get enough protein *without* too many calories, but most people don't do that. Then they end up eating more of the pervasive carb rich foods, because their body basically commands them to ingest enough protein until they have eaten enough of that.