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 Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:42 pm
all right, here's the deal, you become a vegitarian for up to about half a year to a year and then call it quits...why? because you get too weak, trust me, i was one for about 7 months. And another thing, don't do it if you're skinny, do it if you're overwieght because you lose ALOT of weight and i guess if you want to try it, you can...but remember, you go weak smile
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:43 pm
I'm considering becoming a vegetarian, but not till college.
If I gave up meat now it would be a pain in the a** for my mom to cook for me.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:30 am
S-midori as for parents accepting it, when I turned veggie I offered to help make the switch. I went with them grocery-shopping and showed them what to pick out that would go along with my new lifestyle and be healthy. I started a job and actually paid for my own food for a while (veggie-burgers and the like) so that they wouldn't have to pay for my personal choice. I made a list of restaurants around my house that offered vegetarian meals, so that my parents would have an easier time figuring out where to get take-out from or where to go when we went out for dinner. I think the biggest factor for them accepting it was that I didn't do it all at once. I slowly phased out meats by first giving up beef, then pork, and so on. Now it's just a normal part of our family dynamic. I was going to do that! You know, cut out beef, etc...
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:23 am
dude. not to worry. the doctor will tell you that altho meat is a perfectly healthy part of the human diet is eatin properly. you can be much healthier with out it and alot of teens especially hippies are vegans/vegitarians dont eat it. im a strict vegitarian and i am wonderuflly healthy. the doctor rejoices over how stronge i have become and how wonderfully rich an thick my blood is now, jsut because i stopped eating meat! if they are worried about health, such as nuetrients, thats totally cool. they have many many many veggie meat products, such as, vegitarian lunch meat, vegitarian burgers ((boca burgers!)) veggie burgers, ect. these actually have TWICE is not more protein than animal meat does. and if they are still worried tell them that you will take vitamin suppliments. and if they STILL need convining. i can give you alot of books, web sites, and ect. to show them just exactly what your doing and eating by eating animal meat. jsut go slow, and provide the info they need ot feel happy wit hteh choice, hope it goes well!
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:16 pm
I just started the begining of this year. I started doing it really slow, giving up one meat product at a time until about two months ago when I gave up everything except for fish. The veggies that i know IRL did it just so that they could keep their insanely skinny bodies so they could wear preppy clothes from places like wet seal that looks like they made clothes for 8-year-olds. I did it because of the idea that an animal is being raised for the sole purpose that its going to become a meal. Thats why I still eat fish because its usually cheaper for people to catch wild fish in lakes/oceans with nets instead of the huge cages that are still around the size of football fields where they raise really unhealthy fish.
The problem for me wasn't so much giving up meat, but more of getting my dad to stop putting pieces of his meal on my plate because he thought it was unatural (or somthing, I don't have to start thinking for another week and a half))
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:30 pm
I couldn't go a day without some kind of meat. I love meat... so, I really don't know what to tell you.
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