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United States4024 Posts
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Meat is not unhealthy...
Since you're already skinny you losing 4-5 pounds doesn't exactly correlate with being a healthier person in general. Also, if you want to keep growing and maintain more muscle, meat will help a lot.
Takes willpower and determination to be a vegetarian though and definitely is not something bad to be doing. Good job so far :D GL 
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United States4024 Posts
On September 02 2009 12:44 Superiorwolf wrote:Meat is not unhealthy... Since you're already skinny you losing 4-5 pounds doesn't exactly correlate with being a healthier person in general. Also, if you want to keep growing and maintain more muscle, meat will help a lot. Takes willpower and determination to be a vegetarian though and definitely is not something bad to be doing. Good job so far :D GL
im doing it cuz i'm also a runner, and my cross country coach is a vegetarian and he said that he has noticed way faster recovery from not eating meat after running 10 miles than before. So i'm giving it a shot too.
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rofl Veggie-Terrans,
Just beware of dt's, without meat in your diet, you can't fend off dt drops. JKJK
If your friends are vegetarian, I think that it will definetly help. With more people around you all doing the same thing, it's easier to stick to it.
I don't really have an opinion on vegetarians, they're just people that made a different choice. I definetly couldn't live without meat, but GL and also make your you HF as well.
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I've not been considering becoming a vegetarian, but I have thought somewhat about reducing my overall protein intake. There is mounting evidence that higher-protein diets may have some correlation (note that I'm careful not to imply causality here whatsoever) with a host of chronic ailments, notably cancer.
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Don't do it! I'm completely against the whole vegetarian movement.
I may as well leave this blog, I'm not going to be motivating you one bit 
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I'll try cutting down on my meat intake after reading this. My parents will probably ask "why aren't you eating meat, you love meat" and get suspicious. What are some common foods that are high in protein besides beans and nuts though?
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On September 02 2009 12:48 YPang wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2009 12:44 Superiorwolf wrote:Meat is not unhealthy... Since you're already skinny you losing 4-5 pounds doesn't exactly correlate with being a healthier person in general. Also, if you want to keep growing and maintain more muscle, meat will help a lot. Takes willpower and determination to be a vegetarian though and definitely is not something bad to be doing. Good job so far :D GL im doing it cuz i'm also a runner, and my cross country coach is a vegetarian and he said that he has noticed way faster recovery from not eating meat after running 10 miles than before. So i'm giving it a shot too.
That is complete bullshit, and a thing that is entirely in his mind. Not eating meat simply to be 'more healthy' is really stupid. It takes an excessive amount of suppliments and way over picky eating to trying to maintain even average health without eating meat.
Meat rocks man, eat it if you can.
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I'm not totally knowledgeable but I think there's different kinds of proteins. Like I think eggs, tofu and milk all have tons of protein.
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United States4024 Posts
eggs mushrooms tofu all have protein as well.
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United States24799 Posts
On September 02 2009 12:57 Divinek wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2009 12:48 YPang wrote:On September 02 2009 12:44 Superiorwolf wrote:Meat is not unhealthy... Since you're already skinny you losing 4-5 pounds doesn't exactly correlate with being a healthier person in general. Also, if you want to keep growing and maintain more muscle, meat will help a lot. Takes willpower and determination to be a vegetarian though and definitely is not something bad to be doing. Good job so far :D GL im doing it cuz i'm also a runner, and my cross country coach is a vegetarian and he said that he has noticed way faster recovery from not eating meat after running 10 miles than before. So i'm giving it a shot too. That is complete bullshit, and a thing that is entirely in his mind. Not eating meat simply to be 'more healthy' is really stupid. It takes an excessive amount of suppliments and way over picky eating to trying to maintain even average health without eating meat. Meat rocks man, eat it if you can.
Yeah I suppose.
All I can say YPang is if you want to eat more healthy... then eat more healthy! Don't just make some sudden semi-irrelevant change to your diet that isn't clearly going to be more healthy.
That aside, if you refuse to eat meat, then I suggest you study up on this a bit more formally than asking around on tl etc... It's tricky to remain healthy while eating as a vegeterian... it also seems like you really do need to learn about this since your current diet seems to consist of carbs carbs carbs.
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Ya, cabbage and spinach and some carrots seems like you'll definitely need some variety switch sometime soon The carbs in potatoes will probably be needed for running though so that's good. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of good vegetarian foods, not just the basic ones you are eating atm. You should research!
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
Good luck with going veggie. I'm *almost* vegetarian in the sense that now I've sworn off hamburgers and pork (Plus I've never eaten any seafood aside from the odd can of tuna because I don't like it and I also hate the smell of lamb.) and it's not too difficult to stick to as long as you get into regular habits.
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Meat is healthy
If you become a vegetarian because you want to be healthy, then you're being foolish. Vegetarians have to be very careful about their diets as there is a lot of essential stuff that is hard to come by in plants.
To be a vegetarian is to sacrifice a part of your diet because you have a belief that eating animals is wrong. You can have a much more healthy balanced diet if you allow meat into it.
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Calgary26003 Posts
I suggest you use science instead of your coach's baseless opinion.
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The only logical reason I've ever heard for being a vegetarian is for the environment.
1 pound of red meat is equivalent to 10 pounds or cereals. In other words it takes 10 times as much cereal to produce the amount of red meat we eat each day.
Any other reason than that is fucking bullshit. It's not more healthy to be a vegetarian. The only reason people feel more healthy is because meat usually comes with alot of other bad food (burgers, fried chicken etc) so when they stop eating meat they naturally stop eating anything bad that normally comes with it.
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A Vegetarian Diet:
Breakfast:
2 bowls of Captain crunch cereal
Lunch:
Potato chips
Leftover cheese pizza
Dinner:
A bag of chips
A veggie burger on white bread
Ice Cream
Points is there are ways to be healthy eating meat and there are ways to be healthy that don't involve eating meat... And vice versa.
If you wanna cut out any meat I suggest beef and pork. Other than that man just eat what you think is healthy. It is really as simple as that. Meat can be a great comfort and energizer. I wouldn't be so ready to remove it from your diet.
On September 02 2009 13:13 Chill wrote:
I suggest you use science instead of your coach's baseless opinion.
Don't a lot of nutritionists say calories are the only things that matter?
On September 02 2009 13:15 Xela wrote:
The only logical reason I've ever heard for being a vegetarian is for the environment.
1 pound of red meat is equivalent to 10 pounds or cereals. In other words it takes 10 times as much cereal to produce the amount of red meat we eat each day.
Can I just say that you have a point with your first sentence then you managed to make yourself look like a complete dumbass?
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^^To Leperkahn: One of my dormmates last year was vegetarian...he ate tons of things like burritos. XD. And he was pretty damn fat and smelly too. So yeah, vegetarian != thin
Being completely vegetarian is a pretty hard diet to do.
I eat a small amount of meat about every other day since coming to university, and I feel a lot healthier then when I ate meat every day. I just feel so damn full eating meat all the time, it makes me sick. I just feel better eating mostly vegetarian.
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United States4024 Posts
On September 02 2009 13:13 Chill wrote:
I suggest you use science instead of your coach's baseless opinion.
OH i forgot to mention, my coach is my AP bio teacher XD
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United States4024 Posts
i dont plan on being a COMPLETE vegetarin, i'll have Milk/eggs for animal products.
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