Looking for former vegetarians

i don't like meat very much either, if i do eat any meat it's low sodium turkey bacon as a snack, i've started to like gorton's salmon (they're frozen into little 1 portion servings for you) because it's easy and not gross to deal with, sometimes i'll eat chicken and turkey if i go out, but mostly i eat veggie substitutes still.

i really hate touching meat, it grosses me out. for me, even though it costs more, if i want some kind of meat i will either get something set up to cook from whole foods (like how they have the little piece of chicken or fish already cut and seasoned and all pretty so i don't have to get rid of all the gross parts) or get frozen options like the gorton's fish, they have flash frozen chicken breasts that are "safe" options too as far as the gross factor, you can just get them and put the meat in a baggie with some soy sauce or seasonall or something in the morning in the fridge and cook it when you get home. but i'm much pickier with chicken!

you can try just adding it in every couple weeks and make it a part of a nice meal like with getting one of those all-ready-to-cook options from whole foods and maybe learn how to cook them for yourself or just stick like me and keep on like that depending on whether or not you mind dealing with meat.

I'm not vegetarian, but enjoyed your posts. I have a teenager daughter that is vegetarian and has been for 2 years now and during those two years, her health has gone to crap (rapid weight gain, lethargic, moody, pre-diabetic, deficient in certain vitamins, etc) and I don't know how to help her though I know eating meat will get her back on track, but I can't push her back.

I was a vegetarian for about 18 years, starting in my early teens. I suffered from depression in college and as a young adult, plus it was normal for me to have some pretty painful indigestion after meals. I decided to try adding meat because I just wasn't gaining any strength at the gym. No matter what I did, I couldn't lift more weight. Unfortunately, I was totally grossed out by the thought of meat.

I started by eating white fish, because it was tasteless enough that it reminded me of tofu. Similarly, crab meat was workable for me because it didn't remind me of the animal it came from. It took a couple of months to work up to salmon, since the pinkness of the flesh wasn't appealing. Once I got to salmon, it was a little easier to try ground meats (again, because they didn't remind me of an animal). I would say it was about a year from when I started eating meat to the time when I could start cooking raw meat, and it also took a while to be able to eat anything like chicken that had bones in it. Throughout that whole time, the only thing holding me back was psychological; I never had any negative physical reaction to any meat (barring one unfortunately sushi food poisoning incident).

Once I eliminated soy and fake meat and stopped eating non-fermented dairy, my stomach problems went away. Skin rashes that I thought were permanent disappeared. I was able to stop my anti-depressant medication after nearly a decade. I don't know for sure that eating meat and eliminating soy and most dairy and bread was the cause, but I am grateful for feeling more healthy most of the time.

I was vegetarian for three years and recently stopped due to my worsening ibs. After doing the low fodmap diet I found my biggest sensitivities were wheat and beans which are a large part of a veggie diet. I switch back to meat and I eat bacon and chicken most. It still grosses me out I eat a chunk of fat though so that I don't like but my ibs has improved

I was vegan for 15 ish years. Started eating dairy, then eggs, then chicken. I eat a lot of chicken and fish these days. It has improved my health tremendously. I was sick all the time, anemic, and had blood sugar problems. Now I'm healthy as a horse. If you don't like meat, eat small quantities with lots of condiments.