re: Plant based diet?

Yea you can get more than enough protein eating vegetarian. Vegan would definitely be a lot harder. But people act like it's impossible or some great chore. It's not.

"I'm not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish 'cause that's disgusting!"


I'm not a strict vegetarian

I really encourage people people here to try doing meatless Mondays. I know it sound stupid but it really opens you up to lots of new recipes and new ingredients if you enjoy cooking. My wife and I started doing this and found us cooking more and more vegetarian dishes because we enjoyed it so much. After a while we decided to just go completely vegetarian for a while to see how we felt. The only downside is it is a lot more expensive and time consuming than eating a normal diet.

But eggs, nuts, nut butter, beans, rice, etc keep WAY longer than meat. So it's basically even.

You also mentioned pasta and bread, but those ARE vegetarian.

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My only downside to the vegitarian diet: it's extremely time consuming. Vegetables do not store like meats, pastas, and breads. This makes it essential to do almost daily grocery shopping.

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You must be talking about vegan?

Vegetarians can eat breads, pastas, etc. too.

If you like a wide variety of food, it isn't hard to realize you've gone a whole day without meat (especially if you don't consider seafood meat). Sushi, salads, soups, some sandwiches/wraps, a lot of Indian food, pastas, etc.

The honeymoon feeling post was spot on. I did feel really good, but that new feeling was in the back of my mind as well. I already was a healthy eater, it's just when I cut out the cheese and meat, and I should add---liquor as well, and dropped from 185 to 165 it was a fun novelty. Tinkering around as a worker outer and nutrition type is fun and that was a fun thing to do. Everything in moderation is a great mantra. I mostly like to identify as a pescaterean. When I do eat meat, I enjoy it and never settle for anything less than top notch restaurants when I do splurge.

Gorilla Fingers do you have any good recipes you can share?

I eat meat 4-5 days a week, but usually only once per day. I lift weights, so I eat more protein than most folks. That said, it's easy to eat a lot of protein with a vegetarian diet (Greek yogurt, eggs, egg whites), and certainly not impossible even as a vegan. When I made the decision to eat less meat, I just replaced it with greens, lentils, and other legumes.

I eat seafood and chicken more often than beef, pork, etc. As someone said, going vegetarian would be pretty easy for me, and eating a pescetarian diet wouldn't be much of a challenge at all. I won't ever give up meat or beef altogether though... All things in moderation.

I also have this obsession with really cheap healthy foods. I buy steel-cut oats, lentils, and other legumes from bulk bins for around a dollar a pound. I try to eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and I'm not afraid to buy them frozen for convenience... Makes me much likely to eat them every day.

Just take a b12 supplement.