hey all, I'm Tracy, 20 years old. I was vegetarian for 3 years until last summer when I went abroad. I know its only been a year but I really don't remember how it was when I was transitioning from a carnivorous life to a meat free one. Last time I started I was motivated because meat was beginning to make me ill. Now its harder cos I'm actually eating good meat instead of big macs and fast food. I'm really enjoying it but can't stand the slight weight gain and blemishes. Help me out! Thanks Tracy
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The best way to do it,is to cut down.See,I tried going veg cold turtkey at first and within a week,I was eating it again.So I decided to try cutting it out...like cut out all the red meats,then the chicken/poultry,then sandwich meats and then fish.Thats how I done it and now have been vegetarian for a few yrs (since 2002) and WILL NEVER go back!
Any tips on good transition foods? I'm going veggie too & I thought I would just add it to this thread instead of starting a new thread. I've been eating salad's, cheese pizza, eggs, veggie burgers, and plenty of V8 Splash. What other foods are there to eat that are available at a dorm setting? Appreciate the advice! Peace and love
any foods with taste like soup, I do veggies with melted cheese on them, sour cream on brown rice......stuff like that. Got some peanut sauce mix gonna try out on pasta.
I've been a vegetarian now for 18 years, and I am in great health and have not gained weight...you just have to be careful with your snacks and not to fill up on breads. Steam your veggies and watch the oil you use, also a big mistake is the dressings you put on your salads, you think you are eatting a "low fat" salad but actually with all the dressing it isn't ! I could not even imagine eating meat now, I am sure I would get very sick from it. Staying away from meat will keep you healthier and younger! Believe me its true! Keep at it and Good Luck....snow
Fruit. I eat several pieces of fruit a day as well as a lot of raw veggies. These are all available from your cafeteria or the local market. Kathi
There is no guarantee being a vegetarian will cause a longer life. The nature of evolvement is that our ancestors became happy and satisfied after eating meat, this is passed down through DNA. The problem with eating meat is that the protein molecule bores a bigger hole in the gut and lets in bad bacteria. I am a 'sometimes' fish, chicken or on rare occasion beef eater. A 1/4 can Dinty Moore beef stew tonight is perhaps a once every 3 month thing. The way to handle the potential of bad bacteria coming in on the meat is to take a natural antibiotic like olive leaf extract with the meal. The happiness quotient is not be taken lightly or underestimated for both physical and mental health. Sometimes making a transition is better done in stages over years. Doing a sudden change can set up a situation where one suddenly reverts back due to extreme subconscious craving not even realized.
How do you become vegetarian? Well first you must be ordained by the Grand-Master of the Banana Mountain on the island known as Tofu. After that you must sail to the dark island of advocado where you must survive 3 days of hardship and bring back the heads of a few grapes. After handing over the grapes to the grand-master you will then be officially recognised as a vegetarian providing you take the vows and that the grapes satisfy the grand-master's tastes.
How do you become vegetarian? Another way was found also. You eat a jar of Gerbers baby food green bean mush and revel in the ecstasy of it being the best thing that ever happened to your taste buds. You then board the Banana Boat to Macaroni Island and harvest a huge sack of hollow macaroni tree branches there which you have to cut up in 1 inch lenghts to dry. You then get back on the boat to Watermelonville on the mainland coast and search out the dark skinned king. You have find lightskinned pumpkinseed porters such as these shown below to carry your harvested macaroni branches to their king as an offering. Whereupon you will be awarded the Diploma of Veggie Aroma and a degree in Fruitology.
Hi, i've been veg for 12 years and vegan for 10 years. the best *general* ideas i can think of are... Transition Slowly. Go slow and *steady, so you can grow into the change and get familiar. Take Steps. If you're used to eating filling foods, like ones with fat and oils... then replace them with filling veg foods, like mock meats, Amy's frozen dinners, Celentano's, things that have added oils and beans and nuts. Don't Eliminate. Don't leave a hole by stopping eating any food... always replace it. Explore. Whatever step you are at in taking the next small step... grab anything that looks interesting and try it out. and explore too your reasons why you want to be veg i have a webpage on this, for motivation http://www.helpusall.com/foodsummary if animals is your motivation, then check my other page http://www.helpusall.com/ap it's a kind and very emotionally-moving page, i cried a lot making it and been told by others that they cried too. Seeing the animals and looking into their eyes was mu biggest motivation and support when i was changing my diet.. it brings out care that's 100000 times stronger than any craving. there are some forums too that are focused on veggie support. i'm on one and it's a huge help. there seem to be a handful of new veggies there each week, and tons of help and support. how is it going so far? Jon
Tracy, the method most likely to work for you depends on your motivation. If you are becoming a vegetarian for personal health issues, all the gory slaughterhouse film in the world will mostly be a waste of time. If you are concerned with global health issues: run off from intensive farming/ ranching, spread of disease, inequitable distribution of food/ starvation/ malnourishment; which are slightly more abstract day to day (for developed countries) so stepping down (and working in some way to keep the issue in folks' minds) might work for you. If it is all about animal suffering/ the absolutist view that humans have NO rights to exploit other beings, religious ethics or other values of the mind and spirit, then it might be more immediate for you and cold turkey is an option. Since this is a repeat try, focusing on becoming/transforming to vegetarian cuisine (notice, cuisine, a cooking style) rather than focusing on a "forbidden food" might be the ticket. In my world no food is forbidden aside from kashrut. if I wanted to, I could have any item in the meat case: cows, chickens, fish. But my mind thinks of these as "not food" rather than a tempting beacon. The styro plate is about as much "food" to me. I know intellectually that as a kid (I started my veg journey at 12 and 13) I loved all forms of fish. By sight, I can tell if a piece of beef is cooked a certain way, same with poultry. But it's sort of like opening the kibble bag or even baby food. Someone might eat this, but not me. it's not overly loaded in that I see avoidance of flesh as not that different/ difficult than not eating, say a Snickers bar (add whatever treat you don't particularly care for here). Now, in my first years, I was more focused on avoidance and convincing my mom I was not going to die from this. It was hard. Maybe it IS a rite of passage to overcome that desire, but I promise you, it WILL become a memory. By 17, I was only occasionally tempted. I did experiment with "fish to keep peace at a restaurant" for a couple months but that was difficult for me. I felt that I was selling myself short. Plus, it was the only flesh I still had attraction to. My thought was I can honor my family by just ordering something off the veggies list, or turn them onto other restaurants. So I found a bunch of ethnic and a couple Seventh day Adventist-owned places and made a phone call to see what was "safe" on the menu. what's weird to me is certain dishes visually appeal to me (so a telly commercial or magazine ad photo looks good) but the second the reality of smell kicks in, it becomes, well, kibble. I assume that is because I see so little telly, and it is linked with my childhood in my memory. long post short: if it isn't ethics, step down. I repeatedly suggest Lisa Tracey's Gradual Vegetarian. nice strategies and a conversational style. Get a few cookbooks from the library (always test drive before buying) and find three new dishes you love. then in a month, do that again. soon you will have at least 18 recipies that need no flesh and make you not care that no flesh is there. I'd also limit the number of days a month you allow yourself flesh. eat all you want ON THOSE DAYS, but keep the other days for better food. Do for vegetables what you did with meat: get the good stuff. Even if you never completely give up flesh (some people get so close but find they are content with low-meat diets. I have friends who just crave that primal protien bump a couple times a year. They literally get high off it.) you are creating a space where flesh is a treat and not a right of growing up in the developed world. And you will finish your veggies, and that would make your mom proud that you listened!
