Sly Bald Guys Forum
Confidence and Success => Fitness/Diet => Topic started by: Balditicus Maximus on October 07, 2007, 04:56:27 AM
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Hi all,
I'm a vegan myself; and am just curious if there are any other vegan baldies out there.
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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!
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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.
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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!!
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was a vegetarian for a number of years due to moral objections of eating meat.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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Wait, I thought a Vegan was someone from Vegas. :D
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Wait, I thought a Vegan was someone from Vegas. :D
Or someone who drove a Chevy Vega ;D
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lacto ovo vegetarian here
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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'm with ya Wolf, coming from a ranching and farming family we take advantage of all that we can.
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I would love to become Vegan, or if not that a Vegitarian, but I have two problems: (1) I hate raw vegitables ... cooked ones I can do, but I know raw veggies have the best nutritional values right? (2) I crave meats and sweets a great deal. I went lacto/ovo vegitarian twice and lasted 2-3 months on each try and eventually relapsed. Since I have high cholesterol and a horrible family history (colon cancer, stokes, heart disease, etc) I know I should... :'(
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I would love to become Vegan, or if not that a Vegitarian, but I have two problems: (1) I hate raw vegitables ... cooked ones I can do, but I know raw veggies have the best nutritional values right? (2) I crave meats and sweets a great deal. I went lacto/ovo vegitarian twice and lasted 2-3 months on each try and eventually relapsed. Since I have high cholesterol and a horrible family history (colon cancer, stokes, heart disease, etc) I know I should... :'(
I turned when I was 10, so it was easier. But dude just take some cooking classes, I've never actually used any of the recipes we made there but you learn quite a bit. I have a huge sweet tooth bro, if I can do it so can you. There are lots of alternatives!
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I've been switching vegetarian on and off, and noticed that after a week or two of no-meat, no-sweets ... my cravings go away ... but after only one bite of either, the cravings come back.
What is moving me closer to total vegetarian is the effects I'm noticing in my body (i.e. weight loss, more energy, overall mood.)
It's also raising the question of how many hormones and drugs remain in meat -- i.e. is it the meat that does that, or where the meat has been?
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It's also raising the question of how many hormones and drugs remain in meat -- i.e. is it the meat that does that, or where the meat has been?
Spoke with a customer yesterday who was passing through town who happens to be a rancher. He is head of a co-op of beef producers that use no hormones and the cattle are range fed i.e. grass only, no grains. He said that it's available at Whole Foods market.
I'm considering trying some and see how the family likes it. Between burgers and all that good stuff, we consume at least 10-15 pounds of beef a month. That may be a little conservative too.
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I know some vegetarians that have gotten violently ill after "relapsing"
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Spoke with a customer yesterday who was passing through town who happens to be a rancher. He is head of a co-op of beef producers that use no hormones and the cattle are range fed i.e. grass only, no grains. He said that it's available at Whole Foods market.
I love the Whole Food store ... a great place to shop O0
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I would love to become Vegan, or if not that a Vegitarian, but I have two problems: (1) I hate raw vegitables ... cooked ones I can do, but I know raw veggies have the best nutritional values right? (2) I crave meats and sweets a great deal. I went lacto/ovo vegitarian twice and lasted 2-3 months on each try and eventually relapsed. Since I have high cholesterol and a horrible family history (colon cancer, stokes, heart disease, etc) I know I should... :'(
I turned when I was 10, so it was easier. But dude just take some cooking classes, I've never actually used any of the recipes we made there but you learn quite a bit. I have a huge sweet tooth bro, if I can do it so can you. There are lots of alternatives!
Very true man ... I need to give it another go.
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Spoke with a customer yesterday who was passing through town who happens to be a rancher. He is head of a co-op of beef producers that use no hormones and the cattle are range fed i.e. grass only, no grains. He said that it's available at Whole Foods market.
I love the Whole Food store ... a great place to shop O0
Me too! We just got a HUGE one right by my house. So that works out great. They have very high quality products.
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Lacto Ovo vegetarian for 30 years here. I am a Vegan on Wednesdays and Fridays ; and for 40 days before Christmas and Easter for Religous reasons.
Dont think I could go full time Vegan. ... I LOVE dairy and eggs !