Is anyone on here a vegetarian? how hard was it to give up meat? I'm becoming a vegetarian and im curious about how others have became vegans.
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gamergirl
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It's not hard, just DON'T do it all at once. My friends went cold-turkey (no pun intended) and they all complained that they had no energy. I just kind of slowly stopped eating meat, and I was fine. I didn't have too much trouble giving it up, but it's still hard to watch people eat hot dogs or whatever and not want some. P.S. Vegans and vegetarians are different.
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Try watching the video on meat.org.
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I have been vegetarian for about 3 1/2 years now. I did it because of my love for animals, period. It was not hard at first, just 'inconvenient' when dining at a restaraunt, etc. To this day I have mad cravings for meat, which I hate! It is tough, but you can expct to live a healthier and more peaceful (inner peace) life.
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I'm not, BUT! I am considering becoming Vegetarian.
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As if everyone doesn't already know (by the question and my posts), I am a Vegan. Edit: Giving up meat was fairly easy for me, because meat = animal and I didn't want to eat animals. Cheese was much harder, but if you give your body about three weeks of absolutely zero cheese, it'll be much easier. I never went omni to veg to vegan. I just went straight from omni to vegan.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 7. It actually wasn't difficult to give up meat, at the time I was so incensed by the injustice of killing animals for food that overruled any cravings I had for meat. I didn't drop everything at once though...I decided to be vegetarian and I gave up most meat except the odd bacon sandwich as far as I can remember. Within a month or so I stopped that. There are a lot of products on the market that are ''meat replacements'', made of things such as soya. While some of them are very similar to real meat, a lot aren't...but they're nice in their own right. Now the only time I'm tempted to eat meat is when I'm drunk, usually BBQ chicken drumsticks...and if I'm still in a state where I *can* physically eat then I don't allow myself to.
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Vegan!
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I found it really easy and I just went cold turkey, but I have had rennet cheese about five times since - cheese was more difficult to cut out than meat. Now that cheese is a 'ew, meh' product in my mind, it's not difficult at all. Then again, I say this from the perspective of someone who has access to good fruit and vegetables; I'm sure it would be difficult to go vegetarian and especially vegan if you had other very special dietary needs, not much money/time, etc.
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Congratulation on going vegetarian. Based on the age of your question, I hope you are still enjoying the beauties of vegetarianism and all the health benefits it accompanies. For me, it was very easy. My concerns for the animals not to be hurt and eaten by man far outweight any initial residual desires for meat. But it has been nearly a decade now and meat disgusts me in that I know how ugly and painful the scene was when that slaughtered animal, stricken with great fear, desperately struggled in unspeakable pains to stay alive. Hence, I associate meat with filth because pain and corruption to me is filth. Why corruption? Because for a human to bully a helpless animal and to treat it as food, requires a corrupted mind. This is my view because I have a very elevated view of what an uncorruptable human is. If you crave meat, then once you face the ugly truth your old habitual craving will be powerless and you'll be strong and in control. These might help: http://www.youtube.com/v/J9qgZls0sx4 http://www.youtube.com/v/iBM0NULDYl8 http://www.youtube.com/v/z2e-z8C6pZk
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I've tried long and hard before to be a vegetarian, but I just can't give up meat! From my experience, and from my vegan friends, the first step is to give up beef. Next to go would be pork, chicken and fish in that order. Best of luck to you!
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I became a vegetarian just under a year ago. I found it quite easy because, although i loved the taste of meat, i love animals more. Therefore i did not even want meat. However it would be hard if you are giving it up for health reasons rather than ethical reasons.
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