I just became a vegetarian

[mothballs]

About 5 days ago. I've been eating meat all my life, but after watching a few videos of animals getting rounded up and slaughtered in these production places I am beyond angry at how evil society is, and I decided I would never support these monsters ever again in my life.

So far it's been easy, just avoiding meat and eating other delicious stuff like potatoes and beans. Question is though, is it bad for you? And does it make you lose muscle? I'm not really too aware of the health benefits/side effects but I don't wanna ruin my health.

[YellowisCOOL]

Not that being a vegetarian is wrong or anything, but I did find this recently. It's a comparison between a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian

[FritoDorito]

It all takes time.

[PyroGreg]

Enjoy your iron deficiency!

[exudaz]

You'll eat meat again, trust me.

I called myself a vegetarian for a couple days when I was twelve, but then my dad made me lamb chops with potatoes.
I said "dad, I don't eat meat anymore. I'm a vegetarian now."
He said "I'm not wasting good money on lamb chops so you can decide to just not eat them."

Realizing that he would whoop my ass, I ate the lamb.

And it was fucking delicious. I decided that meat is too tasty to not eat.
We went to KFC the next day.

Image what you're missing out on. Fried chicken, smoked brisket, hamburgers, sausage, rotisserie chicken, lamb, sushi, pulled pork sandwiches, subway subs, chili, general Tso's chicken, ribs, bacon, roast beef sandwiches, steak, chicken pot pie, chicken soup, tacos, fish 'n' chips, clam cakes. Animals kill animals all the time, it's how nature works. It's the cycle of life.

If you want to waste the rest of your life eating peanuts and broccoli, go ahead. I'll be too busy having food that actually tastes good.

[Sensationalism]

It's not bad for you. A meat eating diet can lack in certain nutrients, just as a non meat one can. Depends on how healthy you are. Most likely you'll need to make sure you're getting enough calcium, b6, and b12 which isn't even that hard.
It most certainly doesn't make you lose muscle. Most people overeat protein, it's hella easy to get. I did my personal best bench press while vegan. There are vegan bodybuilders. Try telling them their diet makes them lose muscle.

Vegweb.com has some good recipes if you like making your own food.

[TailsPrower]

At 6/24/14 01:19 AM, YellowisCOOL wrote: Not that being a vegetarian is wrong or anything, but I did find this recently. It's a comparison between a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian

The most conclusive evidence would have to come from a comparison of identical twins with a life long history of veg/non-vegetarian diets. People can age differently. Moreover, significant lifestyle factors outside of diets such as tobacco/alcohol use can have huge impacts as well.

Can't say I'm into the whole vegetarian thing, but vegetarian MRE's do taste pretty alright. The veggie heads are onto something.

[koopahermit]

You should watch those documentaries on the abuse of plants. It's far worse than what the meat industry is doing. I myself have converted to photosynthesis. It's the most unharmful and humane way to live. People say I've fallen into the trap of propaganda responsible for the pussification of our species, but I disagree. We must save the plants.

Look at this suffering.

[Sensationalism]

At 6/24/14 01:36 AM, PyroGreg wrote: Enjoy your iron deficiency!

You. Explain how my iron levels were on the high side of average while I was vegan. For eight years.
They tested it when I donated blood.
Go.

[GrizzlyOne]

At 6/24/14 01:38 AM, exudaz wrote: You'll eat meat again, trust me.

I called myself a vegetarian for a couple days when I was twelve, but then my dad made me lamb chops with potatoes.
I said "dad, I don't eat meat anymore. I'm a vegetarian now."
He said "I'm not wasting good money on lamb chops so you can decide to just not eat them."

Realizing that he would whoop my ass, I ate the lamb.

And it was fucking delicious. I decided that meat is too tasty to not eat.
We went to KFC the next day.

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If you want to waste the rest of your life eating peanuts and broccoli, go ahead. I'll be too busy having food that actually tastes good.

Chili is one of the best foods mankind has ever created, but you can have it well without meat, just replace it with EXTRA BLACK BEANS.

[Grammar-Nazi]

Thanks for joining the stereotype by joining everyone..

[koopahermit]

Look at these innocent sedentary beings being slaughtered and run over by our cruel consumerist society. You monsters.
This isn't agriculture. It's murder

[koopahermit]

You vegans are hypocrites. Look at the cruel acts you all are still committing!

[abbuw]

Who needs to become a vegetarian when you've adopted IV food?

[koopahermit]

Join the PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants). We are a non-profit organization out to help protect and save plants from heartless and abusive people. We need your support to spread our message of love and life. Save the plants!

[Shauna]

At 6/24/14 01:14 AM, mothballs wrote: About 5 days ago. I've been eating meat all my life, but after watching a few videos of animals getting rounded up and slaughtered in these production places I am beyond angry at how evil society is, and I decided I would never support these monsters ever again in my life.

So far it's been easy, just avoiding meat and eating other delicious stuff like potatoes and beans. Question is though, is it bad for you? And does it make you lose muscle? I'm not really too aware of the health benefits/side effects but I don't wanna ruin my health.

Well for one, it will take a year to get things together. Meat and dairy and full of hormones because that's how the industry rolls these days. You will have mood swings, you will crave it, it's all perfectly normal. Meat should have been only used for survival purposes but instead you abuse poor animals into...this. The dairy is the same way and animals are abused for those purposes and more cheeses are actually not made from dairy but GMO soy anyhow. Get rid of it and see how you feel.

I think most people fail veganism because they don't eat enough and they get deficiencies because they don't have enough of a balanced diet. They survive on GMO non organic products and ALOT of gourmet vegan/vegetarian meals. Stop consuming fats, oils, tons of sodium and notice huge changes. Your body will more than likely freak out and make you gain weight if you actually follow an 80/10/10 lifestyle but in a few years time you will wonder why the hell you act those products and made yourself purposely feel like shit all the time with low energy constantly without the use of sodas and energy drinks

Also, I don't know why people get this notion that you need a on of iron and protein to survive on a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle. You only need 5 percent of your calorie intake to come from a protein source by the media makes it out like you need atleast 30 or you'll fucking wither away. I'm fit and lean as fuck after such a short time on this lifestyle and I intake very little protein. Protein helps build a healthy body so like I said, 5-10 percent of your daily intake needs to protein. I don't recommend nuts and seeds as a staple as they are fats. Fat is fat and your body WILL react to it.

Fact: there's protein in fruit. A lot of people don't seem to know or will grasp this...at all. I eat a lot of fruit (random day will be 10 bananas 15 dates 10 peaches a melon and a cooked healthy vegan meal for dinner) so I easily get 5-10 percent protein in a day from that alone.

A lot of things that shouldn't contain animal products DO so be careful and e-mail me if you have any questions or concerns if you want.

[koopahermit]

At 6/24/14 02:06 AM, Shauna wrote: Stuff

Nice tips but you should really convert to photosynthesis. It's a healthier and more humane lifestyle. I've been living off the sun and caring about the life of plants for 3 years now.

[mothballs]

At 6/24/14 01:19 AM, YellowisCOOL wrote: Not that being a vegetarian is wrong or anything, but I did find this recently. It's a comparison between a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian

This picture is retarded on so many different levels.

At 6/24/14 01:38 AM, exudaz wrote: Image what you're missing out on. Fried chicken, smoked brisket, hamburgers, sausage, rotisserie chicken, lamb, sushi, pulled pork sandwiches, subway subs, chili, general Tso's chicken, ribs, bacon, roast beef sandwiches, steak, chicken pot pie, chicken soup, tacos, fish 'n' chips, clam cakes.

None of that struck my interest just now. I don't have much temptations when it comes to food.

Animals kill animals all the time, it's how nature works. It's the cycle of life.

Here's where I'll say you're wrong. Animals kills animals because they have to. They don't have the ability to go to the supermarket and pick up fresh vegetables and fruit. Survival instinct forces all living things to eat anything edible when there is nothing else to eat. Animals that are in the wild, they have nothing else to eat but other animals. With this, it's ok for a human to eat any animal if that human is stranded with nothing else to eat. Survival instinct will force that person to do it anyway.

If you want to waste the rest of your life eating peanuts and broccoli, go ahead. I'll be too busy having food that actually tastes good.

Typical American attitude.

At 6/24/14 01:36 AM, PyroGreg wrote: Enjoy your iron deficiency!

I eat lentil soup almost every day, and I have been before I started dieting. There's no way I'll lack iron.

Also, interesting stuff Shauna. Thanks for the info. And koopahermit's posts are making me lol pretty hard right now

[koopahermit]

At 6/24/14 02:19 AM, mothballs wrote: stuff

You ignored my posts because you know I speak the truth. Hide all you want you merciless plant killer.

[Shauna]

At 6/24/14 02:23 AM, koopahermit wrote:

At 6/24/14 02:19 AM, mothballs wrote: stuff

You ignored my posts because you know I speak the truth. Hide all you want you merciless plant killer.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants

If you thought you were being funny, you should read that. I got the deepest LOLs from it.

[PyroGreg]

At 6/24/14 01:42 AM, Sensationalism wrote:

At 6/24/14 01:36 AM, PyroGreg wrote: Enjoy your iron deficiency!

You. Explain how my iron levels were on the high side of average while I was vegan. For eight years.
They tested it when I donated blood.
Go.

Probably cause you knew what you were doing when you went vegan, probably ate soy beans and shit. This guy doesn't have a clue so I can assume if he goes vegan he'll suffer from iron deficiency

[mothballs]

At 6/24/14 02:23 AM, koopahermit wrote:

At 6/24/14 02:19 AM, mothballs wrote: stuff

You ignored my posts because you know I speak the truth. Hide all you want you merciless plant killer.

I guess you didn't read the bottom of my post. lol

[koopahermit]

At 6/24/14 02:28 AM, Shauna wrote:

At 6/24/14 02:23 AM, koopahermit wrote:

At 6/24/14 02:19 AM, mothballs wrote: stuff

You ignored my posts because you know I speak the truth. Hide all you want you merciless plant killer.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants

If you thought you were being funny, you should read that. I got the deepest LOLs from it.

I take offense to how you can just toss aside my lifestyle as if it's a joke. Hyprocrites.

[Satan]

I've been a vegetarian my entire life, and it hasn't ever caused me any health issues. If you want to avoid losing muscle, just eat stuff that has plenty of protein.

To be honest though, I'd not really recommend going veggy at this point OP. If you have eaten meat your entire life, just removing it from your diet overnight might make you ill if you're not careful.

[Shauna]

At 6/24/14 02:29 AM, PyroGreg wrote:

Probably cause you knew what you were doing when you went vegan, probably ate soy beans and shit. This guy doesn't have a clue so I can assume if he goes vegan he'll suffer from iron deficiency

It's very easy to get iron from plants. I'm sure he will understand to eat enough greens. The body will force you to crave it when you're deficient in something. I never had that issue when I went from a meat and dairy eater to a straight vegan. I craved broccoli and spinach ALL the time....my whole life.

Please don't eat regular tofu OP, try to eat sprouted tofu or non gmo soy whenever you can. Plenty of fake non gmo 'meat' choices too. Quorn is my favorite brand of that.

When in doubt, try to eat as much organic as possible. It makes a HUGE difference. For me, it tastes better too. I don't care what anyone says. The more vibrant the color the better it is for ya.

Whatever you do, DON'T eat under ripe veges and fruits. It will constipate you in the long run. And please know how to mix your meals. Eat your fruit in a day before veges or cooked foods. After your done eating whatever raw foods you want, THEN eat your cooked meals a few hours after your last raw meal. Your stomach will thank you for it. Fruit just processes too fast and will gas battle your other food otherwise.

[Jercurpac]

At 6/24/14 01:14 AM, mothballs wrote: About 5 days ago. I've been eating meat all my life, but after watching a few videos of animals getting rounded up and slaughtered in these production places I am beyond angry at how evil society is, and I decided I would never support these monsters ever again in my life.

Really? Be a vegetarian, but don't be a douche about it. It doesn't make you a more enlightened human that gets to look down on other people. Yeah, there's something inherently fucked up about the massive industry behind raising and slaughtering of animals for consumption. Most people know that and have their own internal struggle about justifying the fact that their lifestyle supports it and not everyone is in a situation where it's convenient to just switch to a vegetarian diet. The world isn't black and white where the line is drawn around eating meat, it's more complicated than that.

[Shauna]

At 6/24/14 02:37 AM, Satan wrote: I've been a vegetarian my entire life, and it hasn't ever caused me any health issues. If you want to avoid losing muscle, just eat stuff that has plenty of protein.

To be honest though, I'd not really recommend going veggy at this point OP. If you have eaten meat your entire life, just removing it from your diet overnight might make you ill if you're not careful.

I didn't have that issue at all and I switched from meat and dairy to mostly raw veganism instantly. I actually felt 10000000 times better.

[mothballs]

At 6/24/14 02:39 AM, Shauna wrote: Please don't eat regular tofu OP, try to eat sprouted tofu or non gmo soy whenever you can. Plenty of fake non gmo 'meat' choices too. Quorn is my favorite brand of that.

I never knew there were different kinds of tofu, lol. Probably because I don't really care too much about it.

When in doubt, try to eat as much organic as possible. It makes a HUGE difference. For me, it tastes better too. I don't care what anyone says. The more vibrant the color the better it is for ya.

I like organic stuff a lot more too but it's too expensive, unfortunately

Whatever you do, DON'T eat under ripe veges and fruits. It will constipate you in the long run. And please know how to mix your meals. Eat your fruit in a day before veges or cooked foods. After your done eating whatever raw foods you want, THEN eat your cooked meals a few hours after your last raw meal. Your stomach will thank you for it. Fruit just processes too fast and will gas battle your other food otherwise.

it's kind of weird because my whole life I never thought like this, I just kind of ate whatever I thought was healthy and whatever I thought was the right time to eat it. I feel like I was able to maintain a perfect physique by doing that, I just don't want to lose it along with any muscle. I think I just gotta find sources of protein

[DeftonesFan665]

At 6/24/14 01:19 AM, YellowisCOOL wrote: Not that being a vegetarian is wrong or anything, but I did find this recently. It's a comparison between a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian

There are a few different possible scenarios why one of these women look much better than the other. If you ask me, the first thing I'd say is genetics and after that, the blonde looks like she was previously a smoker or is hypocritical and currently smokes, but promotes a healthy lifestyle as a health guru. Either way, her teeth look disgusting to say one thing about the comparison of beauty between these two women.

[xXubernoobXx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1xGFcmmf-U