been a veggy for a year in jan but...

have you ever felt like when you ate meat you felt full but disgusted at the same time...but now that im vegetarian, i dont feel full but feel much better? have any of you lost weight from being one and if you have, does it keep on shedding or did it just go at one point and stayed the same weight

 

been veggy bout 20+ years always been bout the same weight..i do feel full alot but i dont east a whole lot usualy..

talk about feelin gross though..once ate meat by accident & for a weeki felt like there was a brick coated in toxic waste, with all sorts of mold & rot growing onthat just stuckin my stomach for a weeek ..my whole body felt toxic..i would have done anything to just be able to puke..couldnt eat..felt so just gross ihdta do somethin lil gross just to flushit out of me


we really arent meant toeat it..its toxic to our systems..&the only way its digestable is by other microorganisms digesting it for us
ireally dont understand why anyone eats it unless its just allthe brainwashing by the industry that its good for you..or that your a freak if you dont
people are such sheep huh..lol

 

Well I certainly hope there is a point where you stop losing weight! Don't want to fade away to nothing. I started exercising more when I became a vegetarian, so I don't know if I can pin point any weight loss solely to my diet. I think it probably depends on what your diet is like before you change it.

When I ate meat I would feel full but also bloated, lazy, and tired. That is part of the reason why I quit eating it. I still feel full on veggies but without the bloated, lazy, and tired feeling after I eat. If you don't feel full maybe you are mistaking the bloated feeling for being full, or maybe you just need to eat more.

Soaringeagle, people eat meat because that is how they were raised, and most people don't like change. What surprises me is when I just mention the word vegetarian how other people get all defensive and for some reason feel the need to defend meat eating and put a meatless diet down, even when I am in no way attacking meat eating.

 

I think it's just your perception or how "fullness" is defined by what you normally eat. What you considered "full" for 90% of your life was defined by a stomach full of meat. You just may have to adjust to a lesser "full."

Sheesh tell me about it. One of my new room mates saw one of my vegetarian cook books in my room and asked if I was a vegetarian. I told him yes and that was that. Everytime I cooked from then on he would ask if there was meat in my dish ....that just purely boggled my mind. He asked me a few weeks later for a second time; I seriously wonder if he just couldn't believe that I was a vegetarian. Then my other room mate who is also a longtime friend found out I was a vegetarian and he just started picking apart and asking all kinds of questions and then the all time winner - when a proud meat eater is informed of a vegetarian they have to exclaim how much they love meat and how they couldn't live without it. Lol yeah, carrots are my soul mates. Ok I'm done... Seeing as a how I just recently "came to the dark side" I'm not quite adjusted to the criticism.

 

hahaha i dothinkthe media has alot todo with it as wellthough.. like the 1 comercial withthat song..i amman iamhungry whatever with the typical male behavior actin all macho..pulling a earth mover & shit ..they act like your not a man if you dont eat your beef..
& the mindless sheep are like ya i wanna be a man..
or the other chilli one..claimin it'll make a man outtaa woman.. its these messages that have zero to do with wether or not its even really edible but shame you into eatting meat
then theres regular shows..a character announces theyre vegatarian &theyre like "not in my house" or something like its evil..

funniest thing is.. 1 of my freinds was 1 of those..gotta have meat guys...when he was travelin iguess he tried veg tolose weight (he was over 300 pounds) 6 months later &hes absolutely disgusted by it..

id suggest ya cook something really good for em now &then, let em realize its all good food ..then challenge themtotryi it for 6 months & see how they feel

but tothe originalposter, whats your average daily diet? maybe your not eattin enoughor the wrong foods?

 

Yeah, vegetarianism has not had any good tv promotion since MacGyver. He was vegetarian right? I remember him liking tofu.

 

Yeah I think vegetarians need to eat a lot of food for satisfaction.. Just have many (healthy) things with your meal or have some healthy snacks between. Its good for me cuz I love snacking.

And I feel MUCH better as a vegetarian.
I did lose some weight and I got scared because I didn't really want to lose anymore.. I don't worry about fatty foods if they're good for me, so I try to keep eating those. My weight went down a little when I started but it doesn't seem like it kept decreasing, I think I've been the same for a while now.

 

I think that's it exactly. I feel full now, but it's much different than beingfull and bloated on meat. I can actually stop before I am stuffed. With meat it didn't feel good until I was stuffed, bloated, and yucky.

Kathi

 

i eat like 5 meals a day. I don't like the feeling of fullness, so i spread out my meals. i lost 30 pounds since i started college 3 years ago. it's not because i'm a veg, but because i'm constantly doing things. now i have been between 125-130. I feel really healthy. meat always seemed to weigh me down.

 

I've always been a really skinny dude (125 lbs) and it stayed about the same when i stopped eating meat. i've been a meateater all my life up until 6 months ago. Like i've said before it came as a result of daily yoga practice. So.. clearly i started getting a lot more exercise when i stopped eating meat. I don't know if its the diet or the yoga or both but i feel 100% better than i ever have in my life. i LOVE not eating meat.

 

I finally have my stomach "trained" to let me know BEFORE I'm full rather than when I'm too full. It took almost a full year of carefully monitoring my diet to get that back. Americans just plain love to overeat, and (sigh) I was no exception.

The smaller, more frequent meals seem to be a MUST to me too. Maybe it's the way my body handles food, and maybe it's an everyone-thing... but when I eat 3 large-ish meals a day, I get sick. When I eat 5 tiny meals a day, I do much better. I know that Jenny Craig & Weight Watchers both work on this theory too... because that way your stomach is never actually empty - it helps to prevent overeating.

I find that I can get just as "full" on a veggie diet as I could on an omni diet. I've done it twice now. But I have to eat so many of the non-raw carb foods to do so, that I'm gonna pay for it later. It's just better not to "go there"
love,
mom

 

What do you mean by this? Are non-raw carb foods bad ? Or are you talking atkins type of thing

 

Oh no... I meant that I haven't actually "stuffed" myself on raw veggies yet - I'm not quite sure it's possible, whereas I can totally fill up on things like mashed potatoes or pasta
love,
mom