Posts by helloelloello

Please don't bother yourself by trying to convince people with no compassion and no SENSE, that animals have feelings.

If they can't see that animals have emotions now... it's unlikely they will ever see it. Human beings and animals are equipped with the same bodily systems. We have such similar nervous systems, that it is ridiculous to claim that animals can't feel what we feel. Instinct and emotions are intertwined, they are not separate. So this person that is claiming animals only have instincts, and not feelings or emotions... is quite frankly very ignorant and sounds extremely uneducated. Of course we are not identical to a cow for example, but it's ridiculous to not realise that we also have things in common. Human beings, and animals, were all born into the same world. We are all equipped with the same senses in order to perceive and survive this world of ours.

So I completely agree with you... a mother cow cries in emotional pain, and instinct, for the return of her calf.

Don't waste your breath honey

I pay $9 for 12 free range eggs... yikes!

I'm vegetarian, not vegan, but I seem to get more protein now than I did when I ate meat. I don't drink milk, but I do eat free range eggs so I get a bit of protein from them.

Tempeh is a Godsend to me... not very processed, EXTREMELY high in protein... so yeah, whether you're vegetarian or vegan, it's fairly easy to eat a high protein diet. Probably not lowcarb/high protein like a meat eater would be able to, because most vegan protein sources also have moderate to high carb. But very low carb, very high protein diets aren't good for the human body anyway.

Geez that sounds revolting...lol

This is just an analysis for one meal, right? It's not your end of day report, is it???? lol

4 months of weight training won't go down the drain in 2 weeks, I think you're being really hard on yourself.

Your mother obviously has very unhealthy eating habits. I'm really hoping this doesn't affect you long term. I hope you can go off to college and forget about your mother's terrible diet advice. I know you say you totally disagree with your mother, and it's great that you want to eat more calories... but I'm wondering if your mother's voice is still in your mind somewhere? Because you started off your post almost trying to justify your weight of 120 - 130... but 120/130 IS very thin for someone of 5'4 and someone who also has a decent amount of muscle mass. Muscle ways a lot, so if you're managing to have muscle, and you're only like 120 lbs... that would usually look very small.

Anyways, if you want to up your calories... try and do it with high protein foods rather than overload on carbs or fat. But of course you need all 3 of these macronutrients. Lean meat, tofu/tempeh, cheese, oatmeal, rice, rice cakes, nuts...

I eat it quite regularly but I'm not too fond of the taste and texture. It doesn't really taste like much on its own, but something about it, I just don't love to eat lol.

Frying it tastes good but that's too high calorie for me, so I usually use the food processor and blend it into sauces to put on pasta and things like that. I love pesto pasta... I grind up pine nuts, basil, garlic & tempeh all in the processor & then cook it into some fettuccini. It's creamy and delicious... and the tempeh makes it high protein. Plus it's vegetarian or vegan, which is good.

Hey,

I'm studying nutrition at college, but we have only really gone over the basics of soy so far. We have learned that it's usually estrogen modulating, not necessarily estrogen enhancing, but it does depend on the person. Peoples constitutions are all different, so no one can say soy is bad for everybody, or good for everybody.

There are a range of foods that affect the thyroid, not just soy. Isoflavones are in a lot of foods. So if someone has an underactive thyroid, they should avoid those kinds of foods. But I have heard of people with overactive thyroids being treated with these foods.

Infants are most at risk when it comes to soy, since they have only just begun to develop. I would never feed a baby soy formula, but I would also never feed a baby cow's milk either.

I don't think soy is harmful if it's consumed as part of a diet that contains a wide variety of foods. I think eating it at every meal is definitely a bad idea, but I would love to see a long term trial on people that eat it every day & at almost every meal. Who knows, the long term effects might be nothing. But I wouldn't eat ANY food at every single meal. Our bodies aren't designed to thrive on repetitive diets.

I eat some tempeh, but once a day absolute max, and I may have a glass of soy milk. But otherwise, I try and get my protein from other sources. I agree with you that natural & organic is always best. I would never take soy supplements, soy isolates or GM foods. I think you will be fine so long as you don't eat excessive amounts of soy. I personally stick to tempeh because it's not as processed as tofu, and it's the whole beans...

wow. I don't eat meat & I'm extremely healthy.

I saw a video of inside a slaughterhouse and never ate meat again, that was 6 yrs ago. I also don't drink milk because of inhumane dairy farm practices, and I do not eat eggs unless they are genuine free range. I think there is something wrong if you can see those horrible videos and then eat meat the next day, to be honest. But maybe you have an addiction to it...

What I would do is add it under the Activity Log and see how many calories you're burning (or at least an estimate).

Here are some examples:

Standing; Light/Moderate - Assemble/Repair Heavy Parts, Welding, Stocking, Auto Repair, Pack Boxes for Moving, Patient Care (Nursing)

Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface

Standing; Light - Bartending, Store Clerk, Assembling, Filing, Duplicating, Putting Up a Christmas Tree, Standing and Talking At Work, Changing Clothes When Teaching Physical Education

So add them as your exercise/activity, then look at your home page & see what your deficit is, or if it's not towards the end of the day yet, add those extra burned calories onto your Burn Meter in your head. If the deficit is too much, or is going to be too much by the end of the day, then eat however many more calories you need. Mmmm...more food!!! lol

I don't eat gelatin because I'm a vegetarian... but the other problem with this is what it's got huge amounts of artificial sweetener in. Artificial sweeteners are extremely bad for human bodies.

Artificial sweetener is not guilt free or a good alternative to sugar, it's worse.

Saccharin (Sweet N Low, SugarTwin): recognised carcinogen but warning label has been removed by most areas. Legal amount has recently increased in Australia. Saccharin is synthetic powder and is 350 times as sweet as sucrose. It has absolutely no nutritional value and it not easily digested.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, Equal Measure): bonded phenylalanine & aspartic acid. Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid that must be consumed daily for good health & aspartic acid is also used by the body. Neither of these are harmful, but it when they are forced to bond to create an artifical sweetener, they become harmful. One is naturally able to cross the blood brain barrier and one is not. Since they are joined, one drags the other across the blood brain barrier where it is NOT meant to be. This causes neurological issues in human beings. The process causes neuronal death.

Sucralose (Splenda): discovered while trying to create a new insecticide. The product is made fom sugar, but it is treated with so many other chemicals that it is considered completely unnatural. Lack of long term studies on humans. High levels of chlorine.

I am not a full vegetarian anymore (I eat fish very occasionally). I eat free range eggs but I don't drink milk (due to the conditions of most dairy farms).

I would never wear leather. I may as well slaughter and eat a cow if I am going to wear its dead skin as clothing.

I understand having leather clothing left over from when you were an omnivore, luckily I never bought anything leather.

Yes, I agree trans fat is the worst. It's completely useless to the human body!

But eating meat that contains a lot of saturated fat is also not good in my opinion, since the body synthesizes saturated fat from poly/mono fats anyway. So we end up having too much saturated fat for what our body needs.

I have been vegan & vegetarian. I eat non-farmed fish and free range eggs. I don't eat red meat, chicken or milk.

I will not eat farmed fish because of the stress it puts the fish under. I care about the welfare of fish but I don't connect to them like I do with a mammal or bird. It may sound strange to some and I totally understand why and respect someone who does not eat fish, I didn't for a long time either. I just don't connect emotionally with cold blooded animals. That's why I eat non farmed fish... plus my dogs can eat it too so I dont have to feed them red meat or chicken.

I call myself a vegetarian to people who are clueless and love eating meat and ask me why I won't eat it. Because I rarely even eat fish, I am usually ating a vegetarian meal anyway. I don't give them the impression that vegetarians eat fish, that would be wrong.

I married a carnivore. He is originally from the US and grew up eating absolutely no vegetables, only meat, bread and candies. He was extremely unhealthy and had not tried almost every food that I eat!

At first, I was eating chicken and fish so it was not a big deal. We could both eat the same meals and enjoy it. But when I made the switch to become vegetarian, it got harder and he got sick of having to eat vegetarian because he didn't have the pasison for animals that I did.

I don't force myself on him, but I have my boundaries. I would not be happy if he ordered a huge steak or veal if we went out to dinner. Also I view pigs as pets and so he rarely eats 'pork', especially not in front of me.

He is gradually becoming more compassionate to animals and also I'm doing a degree in nutrition at college, so he is respecting what I say about meat and dairy a lot more now. I can see that he wants to make some kind of change in his life with his diet, but he is definitely not ready to be vegetarian and probably never will be. What's important to me is that he cares about animals and is a good person. Even when I was a meat eater, I cared about animals. So I can understand when people just ignore the cruelty because they don't want to give up meat and put in that effort. Ignorance is bliss, they say. But I couldn't ignore it for very long, hence why I haven't eaten red meat or chicken for years.

Just sit down with him and tell him exactly how you feel. Tell him that you are extremely passionate about your lifestyle and that it's become a part of your foundation of who you are. Tell him that you need him to respect who you are as a person & not insult you in any way about it. Just show him that it's not some fad and that it's something that you can't tolerate beind teased or laughed at. As I told my husband... it's not about me or you. it's about the animals.

As for feeling like you are 'holier than thou'. If you really don't say anything to make him feel guilty, perhaps he is feeling guilty on his own and deep down he can see why you are not eating meat. Perhaps he cares about animal welfare too but doesn't want to give up his lifestyle.

What I can tell you is that one day you will probably not be happy to cook his meat for him. When you have seen how animals in slaughter houses are treated and you have felt that disgust and disturbed feeling, you can't go back. I used to cook my husband meat but it ate at me gradually and now I cannot be around any of it.