any RAW FOODS VEGANS OUT THERE?

EpiGaiaRepens
EpiGaiaRepens Posts: 824 Member
edited October 4 in Food and Nutrition
I have done the raw thing before. It's pretty awesome and hard. Anyways, I'm down to my last less than ten pounds!!! And i'm so close and so stoked! But as a vegetarian, i'm having a hard time with all the dieting advice I get to finally get to the weight I want (they say "abs are made in the kitchen!").

I'm starting to think the only way I can do this is either to start eating meat (not an option for me) or go raw.

Anyone else interested in doing the raw thing with me? Or anyone already doing it?

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  • smithskiman06
    smithskiman06 Posts: 29 Member
    This is not meant as offensive in ANY way. Just 100% totally curious.

    Why do people tell you that you should eat meat to loose your last 10 pounds? Like why would eating meat help you in loosing those last pounds?

    AND why are you against eating meat? Taste? Moral desicion? You think its unhealthy?
  • JamesonsMommy
    JamesonsMommy Posts: 771 Member
    have you considered switching up your exercise plan?
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    This is not meant as offensive in ANY way. Just 100% totally curious.

    Why do people tell you that you should eat meat to loose your last 10 pounds? Like why would eating meat help you in loosing those last pounds?

    AND why are you against eating meat? Taste? Moral decision? You think its unhealthy?

    Im curious too. I don't see why you would have to eat meat?
  • capriciousmoon
    capriciousmoon Posts: 1,263 Member
    have you considered switching up your exercise plan?

    I think this may help more than changing your diet. Maybe your body is too used to what you're doing and you need to challenge yourself more.
  • skinnywellfed
    skinnywellfed Posts: 6 Member
    I am vegetarian as well. I don't do well eating a raw vegan diet. I find I gravitate towards nuts and nut butters too much.

    Have you considered the Eat To Live type of menu plan? It's focused on a lot of raw fruits and veggies but also incorporates beans, nuts, tofu, etc.
  • iheartyarn
    iheartyarn Posts: 141 Member
    i agree with the other posters

    i am about 50-60 raw, and not quite a vegan, the only animal products i eat are eggs. I love the book Crazy Sexy Diet!
  • emmiee921
    emmiee921 Posts: 224
    By meat they mean protein as we know protein helps lose weight, especially since meat like chicken has noncarbs
  • EpiGaiaRepens
    EpiGaiaRepens Posts: 824 Member
    thanks Emmieee921! The meat comment wasn't that I have to eat meat, but more so that I think everyone always recommends eating low carb and I have found it incredibly difficult to be low carb and vegetarian and get proper nutrition. Vegetarian protein has carbs!

    I think the question "why are you against eating meat" feels a little loaded. I have reasons why I don't eat meat. They are ethical and socially conscious. But i'm not into guilting other people for eating meat. We all can live our lives better than we do, but none of us can be perfect. I met vegetarians who were completely abusive to their partners and I think a meat eater who is good to their partner is ethically superior to the vegetarian who abuses. What matters to me is that people try to be good and that they care~!

    I'm a vegetarian largely for two reasons: (1) it requires less resources from the earth. 1 lb of beef requires let's say 10 lbs of grain (this isn't precisely right, but the idea is that if we fed people the plants we feed the cows instead of feeding cows and eating cows, we'd feed more people and tax the earth's capacity to support our species less). I'm into conservation. I'm into not taking more than I need from the one planet in the universe that can sustain me. (2) ethically, I'm against animal cruelty. I love my pets. I love wild animals. But I don't think eating meat is inherently evil...My position is that if i don't have to cause pain in order to exist, I will make an effort to not cause pain. I've heard people say "vegetarians hurt carrots!" and this is complete rubbish. Carrots do not have nervous systems or brains to interpret pain, but animals do.

    So that's my basics. Didn't expect this to turn into a discussion of ethics!
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