Have you tried the whole veggie thing..only to crave?!
Have you tried the whole veggie thing..only to crave?
red meat...I did try it for a week and I was jonesing red meat so bad..I got a triple burger at Wendy's ..how did you do ..with the veggie thing..
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It is hard to change habits. Once you develop new habits it is easier.I was a vegetarian for over 20 years and then I had to do chemo for cancer and decided to go back to eating meat to keep my protein levels up so the chemo would finish on time...because I was insecure and it is hard to find energy to cook special foods and appetite is different with the nausea a big problem. Now it is hard to go back again to vegetarian. I am trying. Steak at york steak house and fried chicken at MCL are what is hard to break for me.
Its hard because its unnatural
It was easy. Think about meat as eating rotting animal flesh.
I was a chef and found a veggie diet kept me more alert and focused, but it is hard to resist the meat temptations if your a non vegetarian going into a veggie lifestyle, mainly because the flavours are not there, and proteins are harder to find, beans, tofu and grains can be provide you a stop gap situation.
I am into Asian foods, so currys, noodles, stewd tofu and African dishes with nut based sauces and Cous-Cous. The best way to get the taste out of vegetarian dishes is use the same techniques used with meat dishes, brown and colour the bases and cook slow to allow the flavours to penetrate the foods, a slow cooker is a great way to achieve this, but it is always tempting to have a burger or a bucket of chicken like a reformed smoker or alcoholic craves there former vices.
I did it for more than a year. It became difficult for me because I was the only one doing in the family and the extra time and effort needed to prepare meals was taking its toll! I did enjoy it though, lost weight and felt real healthy.
congrats on trying, and admitting your weekness. For me, educating myself about the truth of red meat was enough to do it for me. I find it repulsive now. If you truly want to get the facts, google info on how it is processed-and how unsanitary it is. If you dont just approach it from the animal cruelty standpoint, it makes more sense. I couldnt eat meat if I was starving. Once you know the facts, the cravings just fall away and you wonder how you ever ate it. I do just fine with a grilled portabello mushroom eaten like a burger, with cheese, lettuce, etc.
no way i would never crave meat! animals dont deserve to be eaten and ive only been a vegetarian for a year now, which is something i feel very bad about because ive eaten 14 years worth of animals but i will NEVER eat meat ever again, it is way too cruel. I admire your efforts but next time when you want to eat meat think of it as a dead animal which was killed for some cruel person to eat, rather than food and you wont want to eat it.
i've been a veggie for a very long time so it's never been hard for me, but my friend had a little trouble at first. go to youtube or the peta website and watch all the videos of what happens to the animals they kill for meat. read articles and look at pictures on the internet of the cruelty animals have to go through before getting to your plate. also, watching super size me will strongly emphasize the health risk of consuming fast food, most of which contains meat.
Once I stopped eating meat I wasn't tempted to eat it again.i just stopped and haven't looked back.For some it's easy and for others it isn't,my cousin tried it and he only lasted three days.You just have to have a good reason to go vegetarian to be able to stick with it,I did it because I didn't want to eat animals anymore because I decided that you can't love animals and eat meat at the same time,so I stopped and haven't thought about it.once you reacha certain point it just becomes second nature.
Yeah, probably the first week it would be difficult for someone who has been eating meat all his/her life. But once I stopped eating meat, that was it.
I did it gradually, you see, over a period of three years. First gave up red meat, then white meat, then fish. On my birthday, I had a seafood party for lunch with my family, and went cold tofu from all meat (and fish) the same night at supper.
Becoming vegetarian takes commitment, not just suffering for a week. If it's not for you, then don't do it.