On January 1 last year my friend announced that she had a New Year’s resolution to become a vegetarian. She said it wasn’t because she was against eating meat but rather she had been doing considerable reading and considered that a vegetarian diet would give her a healthier lifestyle and body.
She also considered that moving to a vegetarian diet would probably be cheaper than one based on meat and fish. She told me that she spends each day of the week where she can choose from among all the dishes on her menu for that day and eat nothing else. It was that simple.
She said she has had no burning desire to eat meat or fish since then and has had no fantasies Ronald McDonald.
These are the effects she says that she has noticed since turning veggie.
* Pay additional attention to what you like to eat: it is better if you get the right proportions of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and fats). Before all that was used as a guide was she did not eat more than one food of the same color on the same day and not eat the same food more than 2 or 3 times per week.
* She does have trouble gaining weight: the vegetarian diet has made it more difficult to add weight rather than a problem she had of losing it previously.
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* The vegetarian diet contains much more fiber and it is normal to be visiting the bathroom more often.
* She says that she has become immune to minor health problems such as the flu.
* She is also spending less money on her weekly food shopping. Less money is going into carrots rather than steak.
* Increased reluctance to eat things that are less healthy and a tendency to seek “more healthy options.”
* During the past few months she says that she has moved towards eating less cooked food this was not a conscious decision to something she found herself just doing, moving more heavily into salads and cold pastas and so on.
* Increased sexual desire: unfortunately she does not know what the magic ingredient is that’s causing this change, otherwise we would both be sat on a beach somewhere counting our millions rather than writing this article. The most likely reason is probably just a generally healthier lifestyle and lower intake of chemicals in processed food.
* No difference in the gym: She goes to the gym 4-5 days a week and has not noticed any difference in terms of strength or endurance, for better or for worse.
She says that she intends to go further into refinement of the diet and increase her admitted limited knowledge of nutrition but in short she is glad she made the drastic change in diet and feels much better than before.
She has no problems in seeing other people eat meat, but the idea of eating meat herself is gone, she has simply lost the taste for it.
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