As mentioned in previous blog entries, I am a pretty easygoing person who enjoys simple things. One of the things that makes its way into my daily agenda is catching up on several blogs dedicated to health, fitness and personal development in general.
Many of these blogs over the past few months have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle. Don't get me wrong, I love meat. Sunday is my main meat day, eating somewhere around a kilo of the stuff for a lunchtime feast.
Recently however, I have started cooking many more meals at home. I could even rephrase that so it is more accurate. Recently I have started cooking in general. I have never really tried my hands at stuff in the kitchen before. The thing is, Mum is a vegetarian and when I cook up meals I like for everyone to be able to give the food a try, so I have been doing quite a lot of vegetarian dishes. The interesting thing about this is that I have found a correlation between what the bloggers have been writing and the way that I feel in general after having much less meat in my diet.
Because of this noticeable difference in how I feel, I have decided to give vegetarianism a go. Bronwyn is joining me in this little adventure. We started the trial one week ago, with the barbeque last Sunday being the last meat feast we would have for 1 month. The verdict after a week? Well, not a lot has changed in physical strength, output and speed. However, during the day I have been feeling more alert, and have noticed that I do not seem to get that mid-afternoon drowsiness. Also, my metabolism has been going crazy, food is being digested well and I am not feeling bloated for long periods after eating. This is making my running in the afternoons much more enjoyable as I am not feeling weighed down constantly by whatever is left in my stomach. When eating meats, it did not matter what portion size I would go for, it was always the same feeling afterwards.
I did have some concerns about lack of protein and iron in my diet, but after reading over some well known health related sites, it would seem that you really do not need meats to get enough of these essential items. You just need to eat smart (something I would like to say I do well!). :)
Basically the only difficulty of the diet is eating out with friends. So many restaurants offer only one or two non-meat dishes. Some of these dishes are small and leave you wanting so much more. Some of them are also pretty bland and boring I find, however that might just be because I have just started cooking at home around the same time as starting this vegetarian trial. I am fast becoming a big fan of home-prepared foods.
That is all for now, I will update again soon (I know, I know, I always say that I will update soon - seriously I am trying!)
Out for now,
-Brad
Sunday, 2 September 2007
Turning vegetarian (for one month).
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9 comments:
dude, i'll have to eat meat double time to make up the lack of your canavourisim!
Haha, Briggsy has taken that responsibility upon himself already!
:D
"So many restaurants offer only one or two non-meat dishes."
i don't eat much meat and usually opt for the non-meat dishes when eating out...definately understand the lack of options.
a friend of mine thinks i'm crazy for eating vegetarian tacos lol
looks like me and briggs are eating it up, double time!
Speaking of which, when are you coming to Australia again? I know I have asked you about 5 times in the last few weeks now, but I still don't have a clear answer!?!
I went vegg 0 for 6 months. Felt better than I ever have. Wanna really feel your oats? Join me for a yoga class - rob
it's been about a month now yeah...how'd it go?
It went really well. I will blog more about it later, but for now will just say a couple of things about it.
I ended up going for a little longer than a month and was not getting any meat cravings. On the day of the Help Vicki Awareness Ride, I had a couple of BBQ sausages afterwards because I was damn hungry. Sure, they were tasty, but they certainly made me feel sluggish afterwards. Since that day, I have not yet had any more meat.
well that's good to hear.
last week on the radio they did a thing about the ethics of eating meat. there's a guy who believes it's only ethical if you raise the animal yourself as well as kill it and what not...it actually made sense as it makes the person fully aware just what it is they're doing when they consume meat (and gives a level of respect to the animal).
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