• Lucytorial said on Oct 09, 2009....

  I was a vegetarian for about 6 years and another 4 years after that I was flexitarian.  I ate fish and chicken but no dairy.
   
  One thing to remember is to eat LOADS of greens for iron and loads of legumes like chick peas, beans and nuts.  You can make fabulous meals without meat and they are extremely healthy.
   
  One thing I noticed though is that I ate more regularly, about five small meals a day.
   
  Trying to reduce your meat intake is a great thing to do, your body can go into shock if you stop all of a sudden.
   
  Another thing to remember is to not eat too much carbohydrates in the form of pasta or rice, they turn into sugars, try instead wild rice or brown rice, and use perhaps glutten free pasta, I found soups great for this, so many wonderful vege soups to make, alot of eastern countries have wonderful soups to try.
   

• Lucytorial said on Oct 09, 2009....

  drinking soya or oat milk or rice milk is also good, along with cidar - cidar vinegar is brilliant, one dose a day (tablespoon)
   
  lots of lemon water, barley water... its actually quite fun vegetarianism food wise if you're game of course to try new things.

• MsBradford07 said on Oct 09, 2009....

  Thank you for the suggestion.

• Lucytorial said on Oct 09, 2009....

  no worries, its a mind field, if you haven't got anyone around you thats vege then it can be difficult to know where to start or go.
   
  One thing I found great was spending a hundred bucks on 6 different cook books for vege's, it opened my eyes up to meals that were amazing in their flavour, texture and taste.

• dyingman said on Oct 09, 2009....

  You may be on the right track.
  
  Want to read my article about it?
  
  http://www.soulcast.com/post/show/230178/Dyingman-99:-My-beef-with-meat---Part-II
  
  This is really just what you're talking about.
  
  Part 1 might be of interest too, but this one article addresses mammal meat (as opposed to bird and fish).
  

• Hegemone said on Oct 09, 2009....

  I totally agree with what Lucy's tellin' ya.  I've never tried to go without meat, but the main thing I seemed to really learn was that you need to make sure to find other foods, or even some vitamins to take, to supplement what you'll be missing from the meat.  Good luck on this journey!  Also, I didn't know that the vegans who ate fish and chicken were called flexitarians.  I had heard of it, but did not know they had their own name.  Pretty cool.

• Lucytorial said on Oct 10, 2009....

  ohh man did I just find the tastiest snack ever! totally vegan, low fat - yummmeee
   
  Chickpea chips, they're like dorito's, if you guys get doritos there, if not then think corn chip.  But they're baked and flavoured with vege flavouring totally awesome snack.

• Mr.Strange said on Oct 11, 2009....

  ...Chickpea chips sound awesome!
  
  I have tried various ways of eating, I feel the best when I eat a good variety, and enjoy what I eat.
  
  equally I grow a lot of the food that I eat, so that in itself cuts down on costs and makes variety very easy.
  
  I can teach you how to grow your own food, in the dark and when added to other foods truly adds quite a bit.
  
  

• queenparanoia said on Oct 12, 2009....

  well i hope you suceed on losing weight with this! good luck!!! :-)

• MsBradford07 said on Oct 12, 2009....

  Thank you for the suggestion. I greatly appreciate it.

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