Vegeterian, From a proud meat eatin texan Options

[The Fanatic]

So, i'm thinking of becoming a vegetarian for a month or two just to see if maybe my fat ass can lose some weight doing it. In actuality, it's more of an experiment to see how my body reacts to no longer eating meat every meal. Any suggestions and helpful hints from those who have tried vegetarianism? I'm esepcially interested in still staying meaningfully healthy. And if you don't want to contribute anything meaningful that's fine, please don't post. I DO NOT have any sort of PETA affiliation. I will post my results in this forum as time progresses. I probably won't start this trial until monday of next week.

[impala454]

yeah I read the wiki thing before posting in this thread. my answer to it is:

1. what doesn't cause cancer nowadays?
2. saturated fat is in a lot of foods other than red meat, many of which those who swear off red meat still eat. and saying saturated fat = cardiovascular disease is stupid. eating shittons of saturated fat, sure. having a few servings a week or even a serving a day (provided some of them are fairly lean) is fine.

but merely the consumption of red meat in itself is not some poison that people make it out to be. it doesn't decide how healthy you are, or mean that red meat is inherently unhealthy. go up to an NFL running back and ask them how much red meat they eat. or even just a better than average, fairly fit person in a gym. I know back when I dropped about 60 lbs, I definitely still ate red meat. but it was stuff like grilled pork chops and meals using 80/20 beef instead of fast food burgers & 16oz ribeyes.

I just don't see any valid reason for completely removing it from your diet in order to be healthier. If you completely replaced every red meat calorie, gram of fat, carbs, protein, and fiber, you wouldn't really be any healthier.

Now the people who don't eat meat because they think it's gross or because they don't like eating fuzzy cutesy animals, while a stupid reason IMHO, that is more of a valid reason.