Any vegetarians started eating meat again??

If the thought of eating meat makes you want to vomit....... don't. Their are no health or aesthetic reasons to feel compelled to eat flesh. Put in a Google search for Vegetarian, or even Vegan, body builders. You'll find plenty of photos of well built, muscular, healthy people. You'll also find sites that share their strategies for achieving their physiques the 'veggie way'

I have a 40% goal of protein 30% carbs and 30% fat, which comes out to about 120grams of protein. I try to keep my carbs from 60 to 90 grams per day. It works for me.

I know we don't always hit our goals right on the money but consistently consuming more than 35% of calories from protein (from any source) can damage your liver. If you're working out your body will need more carbs for energy anyway.

I was vegetarian for a little while, then added fish back in my diet (for lean protein), and just two weeks ago I've started eating meat again.
I thought my body would go through hell reintroducing chicken, steak, etc but I feel fine. In fact, I feel stronger than ever. I'm eliminating the processed garbage I'd eat (faux meats) and opting for whole foods and my body is responding very well to it.

I change my diet often as I adapt to a new lifestyle and am still finding something that makes my body thrive.. so far I'm doing great! Best of luck to you and I say if you do eat meat again, look for organic chicken, grass-fed beef, etc...

Eating beans, hummus, greek yogurt, cottage cheese, tofu, tofu pups, nuts, etc gives you plenty of protein. The list really goes on and on.

I have a 40% goal of protein 30% carbs and 30% fat, which comes out to about 120grams of protein. I try to keep my carbs from 60 to 90 grams per day. It works for me.

I know we don't always hit our goals right on the money but consistently consuming more than 35% of calories from protein (from any source) can damage your liver. If you're working out your body will need more carbs for energy anyway.

Any evidence to back up your claim?

Mostly evidence based on rodents, but yes, there's a reasonable evidence base for the health risks of over-doing it on protein. As there is for overdoing it on pretty much any macro or micronutrient.

It can be done - you just need to plan; quorn, tofu, nuts, seeds, cheese, eggs and milk - I've been a veg all my life (48 years) and the insufficient protein / high carb habit was what made me pile on the lbs - now I focus on getting enough protein and eating little and often to fuel my exercise regime, and it's working!

You want them to force feed protein to humans to give you an evidence base you'd be better satisfied with? I think that kind of medical research went out with the nazis....

Forgot to mention this website- http://www.healthaliciousness.com/most-nutritious-foods-lists.php , it tells you the top foods that contain certain vitamins etc.

Actually, it wasn't my original claim, it was another posters'. I was just suggesting that the best evidence we have available does indicate that too much protein might not be a great plan either.

You seem tense, by the way. Try yoga or something. Not tested on rats.

I was vegetarian for a while, then went vegan. When I lost muscle I went back to meat but I struggle when I eat it to be honest. I want to vomit halfway through. The consistency and parts just yuck me out. Never been a huge meat eater.

i couldnt be a vegetarian but much respect to those who are i however think i would starve with out meat in my life

to each their own!!

also, if you want to spy my diary, it's open

and it's pretty much a testement to the struggle to eat non-vegan after a lifetime of it
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why am i moving away from non vegan?

because i was an overweight carb-addicted vegan. i'm trying something different. veganism can be supremely healthy: but i wasn't very healthy at it.

(and i never did manage to give up milk chocolate anyways)

i started with raw milk, honey, and eggs from local farms and have been working my way towards a more omnivore diet from there.

I've been veggie for 23 years and never had a problem with it until I realised that it was stopping me from gaining proper muscle in order to lose fat. I kept being told that I should be eating meat to get my proper quota of protein for the day and drastically cut down on the carbs (which is hard when you are veggie).

Just wondered if anyone else has been through the veggie turning meat eater again as I'm finding it a bit of a struggle, in my head! I became a veggie for ethical reasons and I think that is what is holding me back. But having read many studies about how being vegetarian is not healthy for the body is making me think I need to eat meat again if I want a healthy body.

Should I persevere or should I just admit defeat and stick to eating what doesn't make me want to vom!?!?

Hi, I have been a veggie for around 15 years (not very balanced diet veggie!) as you say my diet was quite high in carbs and extremely low in protein. I became a veggie for two reasons one ethical and the other the texture of meat. My opinions have changed slighlty over the years but my diet never has! When I started MFP last Jan I was finding it a real struggle to meet my protein needs (I know you can be a sensible veggie but I was not one of them!) and decided that if I was going to do this I was going to change my diet completley. I now eat a little bacon, a little chicken and a little ham, that's about it really because like you I struggle with the mindset having not eaten it for so many years. I study every bit of meat before I eat it, I will not cook it from raw and I will not discuss it whilst eating! so I have a little bit of work to do. I feel that my energy levels have increased I have had struggled with my meanstural cycle for years, been at the doctors time and time again and now I watch what I eat it's all sorted itself out, may be coincidence?? I would like to eat more meat but I think I will have to take it very slowly. Some things I see no point in changing I LOVE cauldron sausages, quorn mince and veggie haggis and I have no intentions to change this.
I think its a personal decision but I would stick with it for a while don't force it find something you like and work on it, eg I examine cold meat in the store but I have stopped putting myself off it by continuously staring and examining it while I eat it :sick: I also can not do back bacon as it's too pink but although not good for you I can so streaky. Good luck whatever you decide. My diary is open to friends so you can add me if you like but it's far from saintly :laugh:

Should also add if I am buying eggs then its free range eggs, Farm Assurance Schemes and RSPCA Freedom food stamps etc I have no problems with anyone eating meat but I do think they should look into where its came from etc. My husband eats only meat NO FRUIT OR VEG!!!

funny, i plan to go back to vegetarianism. don't have a desire to be vegan again. we're already what i call 'pescatarian' in our house. once i introduced meat back into my diet, i felt sluggish and bloated, etc. i plan to move back in that direction because my kids don't like meat either. my hubby is the only hold out and he's fine eating just fish.

my plan, to be just a veg-head this time around, means i can have whey protein which provides me plenty of protein for my needs. i believe it's a more ethical way to live - not only in terms of animal welfare, but in terms of our carbon footprint and the environmental degradation that factory farming causes. i live in iowa and the minute you hit the rural areas, you are overwhelmed with the stench of hog **** - thousands of hogs confined in a few building and their liquid manure stored in open pits that look like swimming pools of shiz from the air. they leak into the groundwater, etc. chickens and eggs are no better. and neither are the giant colorado-esque feed lots.

i don't hate on those who do eat it. and i'm not saying i haven't had my fair share of steak in my life. i'm just saying if you are already living a really very healthy lifestyle that the American Heart Association now recommends and Dr's tout as a prevention against disease - why change it? there are other ways to increase your protein intake without needing to eat animal protein. Or at least not flesh...

Bump, considering Pescetarianism.