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  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    ...Although I have to say, I'm still testing to find out if there is any sweetener that I can use to kill the craving once and awhile. Haven't found anything yet that doesn't make me want to rip out my insides.....yum, right?...

    Does stevia make you sick, too?
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Hello I am a vegetarian (have been for 15 years now) and in the UK

    Feel free to add me :)

    That's great! I sent you a friend request! :D
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    I am a pescatarian as well !! :) Used to be veg, but I have a certain weakness for sushi, it does make me very sick for the treatment of some of the animals in the factory farms, not to mention everything that gets pumped into them :sick:

    Wanting to stop eating fish as well !!! :smile: It's kind of hard :frown:

    If that's you in your picture, can I just say that you look like a young JK Rowlings? I hope you take that as a compliment, because I grew up with the Harry Potter series, and I absolutely adore that woman!

    Anyway, sushi is one of my weaknesses too! It's hard to stay away from the eel and avocado! :/
  • LittleNicci
    LittleNicci Posts: 284 Member
    Hello there everyone! Not sure if people are checking this thing any more, but I'm a vegan so feel free to add me! I'm relatively new to the site too (just started in the last month) and I'd love to meet and greet too! I was vegetartian for a number of years and then just 5 months ago or so I went full vegan. I told myself I wasn't going to go 'all crazy all the way' because it seemed daunting...but I did it anyway. :smile: Anyway, I've never felt better!!! It's been fun learning all sorts of new stuff to make - it's actually really opened up my culinary skills and the usage of my spice rack. I bought a dehydrator to experiment with...as well as starting to make my own nut butters, bread, hummus, treats...etc etc etc. Although if you friend me and look at my food diary, it wouldn't seem so. I'm pretty boring with how I eat right now because I'm trying to drop 10-15 lbs while at the same time training for my first half marathon and biking to work every day. I'm really big into all natural, but between work and exercise training the lack of time is causing me to pretty much eat a semi-raw, bland(-ish) diet since I kind of grab and go with the veggies and fruit and such...although I kind of like the flavors and experience eating this way. I'm really getting into fermented foods in a big way too (naturally fermented like kombucha, organic sauerkraut, kimchi...etc that have probiotics through the process). And as a last side comment, an FYI for any of you fussy eaters out there, before going vegan I had a lot of intestinal issues - thinking it was lactose related I moved into veganland - but have still had problems. Dumped gluten from my diet and things are getting better...but any added sugar (not usually the naturally occuring stuff in fruit, etc) also makes me sick. So...it's possible to be vegan, gluten-free, and purging most added sugars. Very doable, even with a busy life. Although I have to say, I'm still testing to find out if there is any sweetener that I can use to kill the craving once and awhile. Haven't found anything yet that doesn't make me want to rip out my insides.....yum, right?

    Well now that you all have TMI about my life, nice to meet you! Feel free to add if I'm not too crazy sounding!

    My ex is vegan with loads of allergies too, including gluten. She hated cooking too, so it was always me doing it. I found it a little challenging at first but really got into it! It helped that my mum has a loads of allergies too so I had some knowledge of how to cook for her.

    As for sweetener have you tried xylitol?

    Nice to meet you by the way! Feel free to add me too :-)

    Im allergic to pretty much everything...it's easier to tell you what Im NOT allergic to...not vegan/vegetarian but I eat pretty healthy. Might have to ask you about some recipies as I love to cook too!
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    hey, welcome, i'm still fairly new here too. practically vegan but i still eat some fish (and very little dairy) ..also hoping to become fully vegan in the future :)

    Thank you! I've heard of some people being pesca-vegan, which is kind of strange, but it's probably healthier than being vegetarian. It would be for me, anyway. Pretty much all of my bad food cravings are dairy products (ice cream, fettuccine alfredo, and cheese). So that's what I've been thinking about doing first, and then eventually cutting out the seafood.
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    I've been here 3 months, and am vegetarian. Feel free to add.
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    It appears I am becoming a pescaterian. Never heard of that word before.

    Haha, yeah. Some people tend to not think that fish is a meat, so they eat it and consider themselves vegetarian, but really they are pescatarian, because fish are living beings that are killed for food. That's how I look at it anyway. It's sad, but at this point in my life, I need the seafood for protein, and hopefully I can find a way to get all of the right nutrition without using any animal products!
  • SweetxCatastrophe
    SweetxCatastrophe Posts: 593 Member
    I'm gonna be the opposite and say I am not currently vegetarian, but I was for 8yrs and my best friend still is. I still eat TONS of veggies and know some wonderful recipies. I actually learned quite a few vegan recipies when my sister went vegan and when I dated a vegan for a long time. I still do cook a ton of vegetarian recipies and then add my protein so although I'm not primarily veggie, if you'd like someone whose "been there" you're welcome to add me :)


    Ps: I see the pescatarian mention, and I was technically an ovo-lacto-pescatarian lol
    Not a huge milk fan, but I relied heavily on dairy, eggs and seafood. Eggs were limited though since the idea of liquid chicken fetus (eggs) grossed me out
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Hello there everyone! Not sure if people are checking this thing any more, but I'm a vegan so feel free to add me! I'm relatively new to the site too (just started in the last month) and I'd love to meet and greet too! I was vegetartian for a number of years and then just 5 months ago or so I went full vegan. I told myself I wasn't going to go 'all crazy all the way' because it seemed daunting...but I did it anyway. :smile: Anyway, I've never felt better!!! It's been fun learning all sorts of new stuff to make - it's actually really opened up my culinary skills and the usage of my spice rack. I bought a dehydrator to experiment with...as well as starting to make my own nut butters, bread, hummus, treats...etc etc etc. Although if you friend me and look at my food diary, it wouldn't seem so. I'm pretty boring with how I eat right now because I'm trying to drop 10-15 lbs while at the same time training for my first half marathon and biking to work every day. I'm really big into all natural, but between work and exercise training the lack of time is causing me to pretty much eat a semi-raw, bland(-ish) diet since I kind of grab and go with the veggies and fruit and such...although I kind of like the flavors and experience eating this way. I'm really getting into fermented foods in a big way too (naturally fermented like kombucha, organic sauerkraut, kimchi...etc that have probiotics through the process). And as a last side comment, an FYI for any of you fussy eaters out there, before going vegan I had a lot of intestinal issues - thinking it was lactose related I moved into veganland - but have still had problems. Dumped gluten from my diet and things are getting better...but any added sugar (not usually the naturally occuring stuff in fruit, etc) also makes me sick. So...it's possible to be vegan, gluten-free, and purging most added sugars. Very doable, even with a busy life. Although I have to say, I'm still testing to find out if there is any sweetener that I can use to kill the craving once and awhile. Haven't found anything yet that doesn't make me want to rip out my insides.....yum, right?

    Well now that you all have TMI about my life, nice to meet you! Feel free to add if I'm not too crazy sounding!

    Haha, not too crazy at all! Nice to meet you! I sent you a friend request. :)

    Vegan cooking does seem like it would be a whole new adventure - which kind of makes me nervous and excited at the same time. I'm not much of a cook as is, so that's where the anxiety comes from. My best friend is vegan, though, and it seems like she has so much fun trying new things. I'm going to Washington state in a couple of days to visit with some friends, one of them being vegan, so maybe he can teach me some things while I'm there. We'll be having "family meals" so I think it would be great if I could be vegan during the entire trip!

    I'd really like to start making everything by scratch, like you've been doing with breads, and such. I think everything just feels so much more healthy that way. You know, eating whole foods, and you know everything that's in it. There's no weird dyes or preservatives in it. Just REAL FOOD.

    I'm interested in trying fermented food too! I know it's really popular in other countries, but it kind of worries me, lol, but it I guess that's just because it's not something you see or hear about in the U.S. too often. We do eat fermented food, but it's not thought of as fermented, I guess is what I mean.
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Hi! I've been here for about a month and have had great success so far. I'm vegetarian (was vegan for the past year and a half), and would love some new veggie friends! Please feel free to add me. :)

    Nice to meet you! I sent you a friend request! :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    i have been a vegetarian from birth..I have never ever tasted meat or fish...happy to have great like minded friends. please feel free to add me, and my diary is always open.

    Wow! I wish I would have been brought up like that! I sent you a friend request! :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Feel free to add me! I've been a lacto-vegetarian for 20 years (since I was 15), including some shorts stints as vegan, raw, etc.

    I've just recently started adding eggs to my diet.

    That's great that you've been vegetarian for such a long time! I sent you a friend request. :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Add me. I've been pescaterian for 25 years. I started on MFP as a calorie counter, but more and more I appreciate the social aspects and how important it is to have accountability and support.

    I was logging my food with another app on my phone, before I found this website/app, and one thing that was missing from the other app was the social aspect. Accountability is one of the things that I need the most here. I have a tough time staying away from bad foods. :( But I hope that I will get better at it now that I'm using this. I sent you a friend request!
  • guesswrk
    guesswrk Posts: 4 Member
    HEy. Im vegetarian and seriously in need of motivation in regards to weight loss. Add me :)
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    i have been a vegetarian from birth..I have never ever tasted meat or fish...happy to have great like minded friends. please feel free to add me, and my diary is always open.

    Same, and people think I am weird. I've added you
  • lucyster92
    lucyster92 Posts: 51 Member
    i'm a vegetarian but mainly eat vegan foods.
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Nice to meet you! :)

    I want to be vegan for a number of reasons: I wan to have less of an impact on the environment, I'm aware of the way animals are treated, and it makes me really sad, and also it just seems uncouth drinking another animal's breast milk, and stuff. Also, I know that animals are fed BAD stuff that I don't want in my body (like extra hormones and stuff)! So those are just my basic reasons.

    Nice to meet you too!

    I feel exactly the same. Even when I eat fish I'm very fussy about what kind (I don't like to eat cod or haddock as they are rapidly running out) and where it's from/how it is caught. When I eat dairy products I try to have only organic or use vegan alternatives. My mum never had cow's milk in the house when we were kid's for the same reason you don' drink it. Although have to say I really enjoy a bit of it in my tea! I'm also a big fan of cheese so would find it very hard to go vegan but really respect people who are. Good luck with it and I will send you a friend request :-)

    P.S. I read your profile and I also suffered with eating disorders as a teenager. I found going on a diet and extremely scary thing to do as I very easily get obsessive about it. But my main goal is just to be happy and healthy. How are you finding it?

    I try to use vegan dairy products, if the option is available. I live with my parents, and they buy cow's milk, but if I have extra money, I always try to get almond milk so that I don't have to use the cow's milk, and if I order coffee or something, I always ask if they have soy. I never cared much for milk as a kid, but I have a difficult time staying away from other dairy products like ice cream. D:

    I've been having a difficult time dieting. When I was younger, I was into anorexia for quite some time. Now I still binge pretty often, but I starve myself much less than I used to. I guess I'm making progress, but I do feel extremely ashamed when I log the terrible food I've eaten. I'm hoping that by making my food diary open for friends to see, I will be less likely to binge or starve myself. :/ Thanks for the support. My main goal, along with losing the weight, is to regulate my eating habits more. It's very important to me to treat my body better than I have been.
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Hello all, I'm pretty new to this site - I signed up awhile ago, but only just started utilizing it a couple of weeks ago and I'm loving it! It's so helpful and motivational. I have two friends on here right now - my mom and a local friend, but I would love to add more people for support and to be supportive of them in return. It would be really great to add friends with like-diets/lifestyles as my own for that extra support and recipe ideas!

    So feel free to add me, I'm on here often and log in from my phone a lot throughout the day. :)

    Nice to meet you! I've sent you a friend request. :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    Vegetarian here, too. I have looked at going vegan, but I am concerned about getting enough protein, especially since I've reached my goal weight and I am now entering the next phase of my journey, which is to build some muscle. I did, however, just order The 30 Day Vegan Challenge and a couple of vegan cookbooks, and plan to eat vegan as much as possible. Any of you are welcome to add me as a friend. I am always looking for tips and tricks, as well as support. :-)

    Getting enough protein is my main concern as well. Congratulations on reaching your weight goal! That's amazing! I sent you a friend request, and look forward to see how things go for you on the 30 Day Vegan Challenge. :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    I've been here 3 months, and am vegetarian. Feel free to add.
    Nice! Sent you a friend request! :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    I'm gonna be the opposite and say I am not currently vegetarian, but I was for 8yrs and my best friend still is. I still eat TONS of veggies and know some wonderful recipies. I actually learned quite a few vegan recipies when my sister went vegan and when I dated a vegan for a long time. I still do cook a ton of vegetarian recipies and then add my protein so although I'm not primarily veggie, if you'd like someone whose "been there" you're welcome to add me :)


    Ps: I see the pescatarian mention, and I was technically an ovo-lacto-pescatarian lol
    Not a huge milk fan, but I relied heavily on dairy, eggs and seafood. Eggs were limited though since the idea of liquid chicken fetus (eggs) grossed me out

    Very cool! I sent you a friend request. I can use all of the vegan/vegetarian recipes I can get! I'm not a great cook just yet, but I'm interested in learning. :)
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    i'm a vegetarian but mainly eat vegan foods.

    That's awesome! I sent you a friend request. :D
  • Cherryblosm3
    Cherryblosm3 Posts: 106 Member
    Not sure if anyone's even checking this anymore, but im a lacto-ovo vegetarian (no meat, but i eat eggs and milk, only free-range and organic though).

    Id love more vegetarian friends! Sharing recipes and nutrition ideas would be a big help to me!!

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