vegetenerian lifestyle?
I been working on a healthy eating plan, How'm I doing?
How do you guys do it?
I haven't been eating a lot of meat, less I suppose the last few years, Not such an active lifestyle to warrant it, no more pork hunting etc.
So I thought I'd try giving up meat altogether.
I'm Head Chef in a mining camp, in the north of Australia, damn hot here, and I cook meat for the blokes, they like meat and lots of it, but I'm kinda over it.
So I thought a few days ago I'd have a crack at vegeteneriasm, my first was okay, usual picking at food, not really eating, but we had roast chicken and I don't really like dead birds much, so I munched on roast veg. Think I had a sausage roll for breakfast, but that's not real meat.
The next day I made Vege strudels from the leftover roast veg and ate that, I think somewhere along the line a piece of steak jumped into my mouth, I couldn't help it, it looked so delicious, a T bone with green peppercorn sauce, my mouth was watering, mmm meat, natures convenience food.
The next day, yesterday, I woke up starving, like my throat had been cut, that might have been the day the steak jumped into my mouth? I had a couple of slices of roast meat then more strudel, I made a Nuok Cham and had that with rice noodles, it was yummy, but I was still hungry. I helped myself to cheese, and olives, and basically went the whole day without eating any more meat!
This morning I was starving again and i was tired and grumpy, I had a coffee but never really ate anything, until it was too late, I was so hungry I grabbed a sausage roll. Tonight I made Pork spare ribs, I'm not a great pork fan, but don't mind ribs, and after all they were spare, so the pig wasn't using them anymore. So I had some... Couldn't help it, it was talking to me "eat me eat me"
I don't really care about the animals, I'm just trying to find a healthy eating plan.
I'm so busy I never come up for air, I eat melons and stuff when I'm cutting them up, sometimes I have a bit of meat when it's cooked, or I just pick.
So how can I get enough to eat?
I'm a big guy, over 6ft and 115kg's whatever that is in pounds, I don't like to eat a lot when I'm working, I don't have time for a sit down meal, and it slows me down too much, But I'm missing meat in my diet, Didn't think I wood! I'm near 50 too, and yeah we all know I've got an attitude!!
So supplies came in today, we have lots of olives, pickles, sun dried tomatoes etc, might fill a bowl with those and grazed on them before I get so hungry I need to get a quick fix!
Getting enough protein seems to be the problem, and my body telling me I'm not getting enough, being very hungry early in the morning and salivating over steak and ribs.
It's like some kind of withdrawl symptom. I can feel my self justification rising, and my tolerance dropping!
I had parsnips tonight, now I'm hungry again.
Don't suggest Tofu or any C rap like that, I'm just gunner eat what we have on the cold salad bar, steer away from cakes and desserts.
I think my body nose what it wants and steers me in the direction of energy dense foods, meat sweets etc.
Now that we're all friends on the V and V section, I'm one of you guys now!!
How am I going to tell my mum?
She's been dead 10 years!