I was that person who looked at these VEGETARIANS and would say to myself, "I could NEVER do that! I love my meat!" Last year a couple times during my feast on a steak or chicken I felt like such an animal! It took some work chewing up the yummy meat and even more work having my tummy digest it.
In my effort to choose a New Years resolution I wanted to do something in addition to exercise that will help my body be healthier! I decided last Wednesday that I would not eat meat for the rest of 2011! Then I will see where I stand! I really want to do this because it seems like I CANNOT! I can't believe I am so weak inside that i think I cannot go without meat for one whole year. So I am gonna Go FOR IT! Here we are at day 5, meatless and loving it! I am enjoying creating new recipes and I actually feel SO much better even within just 5 days!
I told Adam about my new life goal and he kind of laughed at me. He knows how much I love my food! Then he said it was a great idea! He said we aren't meat eaters anyways! We have herbivore teeth! The only meat teeth are our K9's and our front teeth are for nuts and berries!! Isn't he funny! I secretly think he is excited for me!!
I am gonna GO FOR IT!!
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Welcome to the club! We've been doing the vegan thing for like 8 months or something! Love it! I feel so much better! Be careful not to over do dairy to compensate for protein or you can gain weight! Check out veganmothering.blogspot.com and blog.fatfreevegan.com and http://pcrm.org/health/recipes/ and http://www.drmcdougall.com/free_5a.html for recipes! There are so many yummy foods to eat! I can't believe I ever ate such boring food! :) You would also like my cousin's blog myhealthyattempts.blogspot.com. I'm excited for you! You can do it!
That is an ambitious goal. Good luck! I have been trying to eat healthier also. I have started getting produce baskets from a co-op and so I don't choose what I am getting. It has really helped me branch out and use foods that I was always scared of because I had never cooked with them before. There is also so much in the baskets every week that we have to eat a lot of it so it won't go bad, which makes less hungry time to eat junk. I have lost 3.5 lbs since I started getting them 3 weeks ago. I feel so satisfied when I make dinner with all fresh ingredients. I can't make the leap to go all vegetarian, though. I am a farm girl at heart and LOVE meat, but I have cut way down on it. Your recipes do look good. I think I might just need to try that lasagna.
I'm so glad Adam is so supportive of this goal! That will make it MUCH easier to accomplish! Good luck!
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