Vegetarian

taylkail726

Anybody have any tips on how to cut meat out of ones diet?

kommodevaran

Stop eating meat, and eat other things instead. I think you need to specify your particular challenges to get more specific tips.

janejellyroll

Identify when you're eating meat and replace it with other foods (beans, grains, vegetables, tofu/tempeh, and seitan are all popular choices, as are eggs and dairy if you're lacto-ovo vegetarian).

kshama2001

Here are 157 vegetarian recipes featuring beans or lentils: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/search/ ?f[0]=field_special_diet:25&f[1]=field_recipe_main_ingredient:789

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition is a popular vegetarian cookbook which may be available in your library system.

(Libraries are a great way to try out cookbooks before you buy them. )

lemurcat12

kommodevaran wrote: »

I think you need to specify your particular challenges to get more specific tips.

This.

taylkail726

Okay, I love eating meat, but I don’t want to so that I can lose weight and maintain a balanced diet

JRSINAZ

Try to start with eliminating chicken, pork and beef. You can work on reducing or eliminating dairy and eggs and seafood later. I found once I did it the more and more I loathed what meat and saturated fat did to me. Be watchful of starches like bread, grains rice potatoes and fats even though plant based can make you fat. Think potato chips haha

DancingMoosie

taylkail726 wrote: »

Okay, I love eating meat, but I don’t want to so that I can lose weight and maintain a balanced diet

You don't have to stop eating meat in order to lose weight or to maintain a balanced diet. One usually stops eating meat because of a moral, religious, or medical reason. Meat is a good source of protein. Why cut it out?

ekelley44

You don't need to cut meat out of your diet to lose weight. Choose foods that you like, weigh and measure them and stay within your calorie goal. I've been a vegetarian for 20 years and have gained weight when I ate more calories than I was burning. It will be much harder to be successful if you deprive yourself of things you enjoy

livingleanlivingclean

taylkail726 wrote: »

Okay, I love eating meat, but I don’t want to so that I can lose weight and maintain a balanced diet

There are plenty of fat, unhealthy vegetarians and vegans - cutting out meat is not the answer to losing weight or maintaining a balanced diet.

I love meat too, but do eat it less often - I eat a lot of eggs and dairy, but I do eat fish most days. I usually have beef/chicken etc at 2-3 meals per week. Eating meat hasn't stopped me losing weight or having a balanced diet!

AnnPT77

ekelley44 wrote: »

You don't need to cut meat out of your diet to lose weight. Choose foods that you like, weigh and measure them and stay within your calorie goal. I've been a vegetarian for 20 years and have gained weight when I ate more calories than I was burning. It will be much harder to be successful if you deprive yourself of things you enjoy

100% endorsed . . . and I've been vegetarian for 43 years (not a typo: Since 1974).

I was a thin vegetarian (120s) in the 1970s, got fat eating vegetarian in the 1980s, became obese later and stayed that way for decades, became a competitive athlete in the 2000s with a solid training schedule (but stayed obese). In 2015-16, I lost around a third of my body weight, back to the 120s, still a vegetarian.

Vegetarianism is irrelevant to weight loss. Eating lots of veggies can be good, because they're nutritious and many people find them filling. Meat, if you enjoy it, pairs nicely with veggies, and makes it easier to get important protein, iron, B12, etc. It's also socially simpler (just a little ) to be an omnivore.

I vote for eating the foods that you personally find tasty, filling and nutritious, at a calorie level that will help you gradually lose weight. Specific "diets" with lots of rules? Not necessary.