MMmmMmmmMmm… bacon……………………………………………………………..
Weight is a BIG issue in North America, and when you think about it, how often do you see a fat vegetarian? In fact, the majority vegetarians are lean and healthy. When you visit a dietician or nutritionist, they will most likely tell you to increase your vegetable intake and decrease the amount of meat you consume, especially red meats and pork. Many vegetarians who revert back to eating meat have found that the weight they lost comes back quickly. Will power alone is not enough to prevent you from gaining when consuming a diet which includes high fat meat products.
You are naturally healthier when you eat a diet that is high in dietary fibre, which is achieved by consuming vegetables and fruits. As a vegetarian you essentially feed your your person the nutrition that it needs in order to provide your body with useful energy, not energy that has to be stored.
Many diets fail miserably because we force ourselves to avoid foods that we enjoy. This only leads to temptation, and binge eating. The trick when it comes to becoming a successful vegetarian is to realize that you don’t need meat and that it is easy to live without. You focus on eating healthier and you forget that you are even trying to lose weight. You actually lose weight without even realizing it, simply because you have eliminated your main source of bad fats. At the same time, all those bad health effects vanish because of your new healthy and natural diet.
For those who are not trying to lose weight, but maybe even gain some like myself, the veg diet does not make slim people waste away as long as it is done properly. Personally I have not lost a pound since becoming a vegetarian and I’m quite happy about that since I cannot afford to. As long as you keep meat alternatives like tofu, veggie burgers, and tofurkey as part of your regular diet, you can easily maintain the proper protein levels. I know protein is the main reason some assume the vegetarian lifestyle is not a healthy one, but they are quite wrong. There are endless cruelty free alternatives out there that are not only healthier than their meat counterparts, but also tastier in my honest opinion.
-Mr. SoVeg
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i am one of the lucky people who had a great body all of my middle years. 5′2″ 115lbs muscles in great places and a body that worked really well. i ate meat, smoked cigarettes and drank acholol.
in 2002. i divorced, became a vegetarian, gave up cigarettes, booze and meat. i enrolled and passed my anne wigmore retreat, went to panama and helped to start a fasting center where the only food to eat was fruit.
i returned to canada, then moved to puerto rico where the living is easy.
i am now overweight. now i know you might think that i over eat fatty foods, but this is not the case. my weight has coinceded with menopause. my body is 20lbs heavier. this is where my body wants to be now. i am as active as i have ever been, and yet i am unable to loose weight.
i am convinced that i am as unhealthy as i have ever been in my life. is it because i do not eat meat,, NO.
age and hormone fluctuation is the cause of this weight gain. i went to the doctor’s reciently and was told, my cholorestal levels are raised i am anemic and i have raised levels of uric acid.. ask the doctor if i needed a follow up and he said no, 6-8 months come back..
now i do not eat meat why do i have raised levels of uric acid…
Interesting post, i bookmarked your blog, best regards