Any Vegans?

[Balditicus Maximus]

Hi all,
I'm a vegan myself; and am just curious if there are any other vegan baldies out there.

[John]

No, but if my employer had any say about it I would be.  I am an RN at a Seventh Day Adventist hospital.  No meat or caffeine is served in either of our cafeterias, and I just got an email from administration suggesting that I give the vegan lifestyle a try. By the way, we on the night shift bring our own caffeine!

[Glenr]

I dabbled with a raw food diet for a while and whilst it make me feel good, I lost so much weight and muscle tone I decided to drop it. I didn't do it for any moral reason I was just experimenting with diets.

[BaldBen]

My wife is trying to get me on the Vegan side of SLY.

However, there must be something in my DNA that would simply make it impossible for me to be a full-fledged vegetarian. Although I eat what I consider to be a healthful diet, I'm still sometimes craving meat, sweets and fats.

Are there other foods that can help draw me away from these unhealthful  cravings?
I recently found some alternative snacks at Trader Joe's.
But they're a  bit too salty!!

[Balditicus Maximus]

My wife is trying to get me on the Vegan side of SLY.

However, there must be something in my DNA that would simply make it impossible for me to be a full-fledged vegetarian. Although I eat what I consider to be a healthful diet, I'm still sometimes craving meat, sweets and fats.

Are there other foods that can help draw me away from these unhealthful  cravings?
I recently found some alternative snacks at Trader Joe's.
But they're a  bit too salty!!

There are some really great fake-meat options available these days.  If you're eating meat and you try them, you'll think they come up short.  But if you're not eating meat and you try them, they seem pretty darn meaty.  My wife and I eat the burgers, hot dogs, Italian sausages, bologna, turkey and ground beef crumbles.  And once you step away from meat, sweets and fats you tend to lose the cravings.  At least I did. 
Ben, is your wife vegan?  I think it would be difficult to have a 'mixed marriage'. 

[BaldBen]

She's a lactovarian, so her diet currently includes dairy products and eggs.
She used to be a pescatarian and ate fish.

I guess you could say this is a "mixed marriage' of sorts.
I tend to be a vegan at home and eat a non-vegan lunch during the work week. Like all marriages it's one of compromise. It seems to work and we're happy with it. Remember food doesn't make or break a marriage.

[VFRWolf]

I enjoy red meat too much to give it up.  I personally don't think we were meant to live strictly on vegetables.  If we were, all our teeth would be shaped like a cow.  A healthy diet needs all types of foods in moderation.

This is just my opinion, if vegan works for folks, great.  It's just not for me.

[Balditicus Maximus]

I enjoy red meat too much to give it up.  I personally don't think we were meant to live strictly on vegetables.  If we were, all our teeth would be shaped like a cow.  A healthy diet needs all types of foods in moderation.

This is just my opinion, if vegan works for folks, great.  It's just not for me.

I agree.  It's whatever works for ya.  Going vegan helped me with weight, cholesterol and blood pressure.  So it definitely works for me.  Many people don't have those issues.  But you won't catch me moralizing about it.

[WannaBePadre]

I've been off-and-on vegetarian-ish. But eating in a cafeteria on campus (it's paid for) makes it difficult sometimes. The salad bar is very sparse and often wilted.

I went from 218 to 193 by not eating meat.

My doctor is mixed about it. Tells me to eat some meat and stop drinking beer.

[JDog]

I was a vegetarian for a number of years due to moral objections of eating meat.

[Balditicus Maximus]

I was a vegetarian for a number of years due to moral objections of eating meat.

My wife has got the moral objections big time.  Whenever I want to break down and eat a quarter pounder with cheese, she reminds me of what's going on in the slaughterhouses.

By the way JDog, you've got a beautiful family!

[JDog]

I was a vegetarian for a number of years due to moral objections of eating meat.

My wife has got the moral objections big time.  Whenever I want to break down and eat a quarter pounder with cheese, she reminds me of what's going on in the slaughterhouses.

By the way JDog, you've got a beautiful family!

Thanks Reid.

[Marz]

Wow, Baldicus you look good for being Vegan. Most Vegans I know are very sickly looking (boney, pale, caved in chest, etc.).

My wife was a Vegitarian for years, she decided to give it up to enjoy more variety. We like to go out to eat a lot and a nice steak in a 5 star restaurant is really something to be had.

We do limit our red meat intake, never eat fast food and rarely eat anything that comes in a package.

I think being vegan is great if you do it properly and dont just survive off Falafel.

[ugabulldog]

my wife is vegan for moral reasons, I try to stay away from meat except for seafood and when I eat out or a company meal, it is hard. I eat eggs and milk daily though

[schro]

Wait, I thought a Vegan was someone from Vegas.