I have recently become vegan, after being vegetarian for a few years. Alot of people have told me how hard it will be to be vegan. I found the transition (or way of life) easier for me in that I already was vegetarian. I think for me the key is a balanced diet of proteins, carbs and fats. Since I have walked down this path, I have found my cravings towards sugars have stopped, I dont crave chocolate anymore, although as a vegan you wouldn't eat dairy made milk chocolate. I bought vegan dark chocolate before and it tastes great, I just dont crave it or the need to eat another piece. My sensors have become more enhanced or sensitive to foods around me, like I can smell the sugar or sweetners in foods (weird I know) or smell the sugar in milk, etc. Anyone else here vegetarian or Vegan.
No I am not, but I am perhaps slowly introducing one day a week where I eat vegetarian for all three meals as a way for me to eat healthy while I'm still young.
I've been a vegetarian my whole life. I haven't thought about becoming vegan but it seems like a good thing to do.
A great tip to add more protein into your diet is to add 15gs of nut butter (I prefer almond nut butter) into either 30gs of soya or pea or rice protein powder (plain if you can get it), mix it together first to get fine granual like balls and add 60gs of water into it (I prefer it cold from the fridge) to make a paste. It fills you up, great for a snack and its high in protein too. I do this after I train or workout.
I've been a vegetarian my whole life. I started laying off sugary things from over a year now. I can totally understand how you are "smelling" and tasting sugar everywhere now. Thats's the problem lol! Since you cut off sugar completely, anything that has natural or artificial sugar in it will be 10 times more obvious to you now. Even now when I occasionally pick up a tiny piece of chocolate or eat a sweet, it's too sugary for me! Being a vegetarian, you can still get your protein. It's hard, but not impossible. I have chia seeds, nuts, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, Paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese of sorts), Lentils, Peas, Peanut Butter, Ghee (Indian Clarified Butter) and so on. Each of them have minute amounts of protein in them. But all of them put together give me a considerable amount of protein. Nowhere near my daily goal, but they do cover a major portion of it anyway. I try to take one scoop of Protein (Whey Isolate) to substitute for the rest of the protein. I'm trying to find other sources though.
Vegetarian over a year now. I definitely feel healthier and physically stronger, as well as cravings for a lot of unhealthy foods have dropped.
The only time I've ever lost a large amount of weight is when I was vegan/no sugar/ focus on natural foods (not necessarily organic, just not processed). But money's tighter now and it's so expensive to eat that way. I am trying to get more towards that though.
I am basically vegetarian, though not by choice. Developed that allergy to beef and milk and it can cross react with other mammal meat. So I'm stuck eating birds, fish and veggies. The biggest thing I miss right now is pepperoni pizza. If I indulge in cheese I regret it. And I had chicken once that I didn't realize was cooked on the same grill as hamburgers and ended up in the ER! It doesn't help my weight at all (although that may be due to age). I don't think it's made me any healthier, either.
I'm pescetarian but I try not to eat fish too often. I'd like to go vegetarian one day but I can't do that yet.
I've been vegetarian my whole life. It's interesting because I don't think of it as something unique about myself or even notice it until someone brings it up or a group I'm in ends up at some place where there are no options such as In n' Out.
