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It’s bonfire time in the UK. To celebrate the near burning down of the Houses of Parliament back in the ye ol’de time we set off fireworks. Went to a local display last night that was good. Cheesy – but a good kind of cheesy.

So - I’ve been vegetarian for 14 years – but over the last six months, I’ve re-introduced meat. Why? I need to loose some weight.

I’m overweight for the following reasons.

1: I’m very lazy. Not sporty at all.
2: Genes. It’s in the family tree.
3: I’m carbo sensitive. Aren’t we all!
4: I like my food. That means I don’t know when to stop eating.

Just cos you’re a veggie doesn’t mean to say you eat all the right foods. I ate a very poor diet mainly because I was stressed out, depressed, had enough money to buy what the hell I liked, and didn’t give a damn about the consequences.

You know – I’d go shopping and the pizza and wine would literally talk to me. “Come on”, they’d say. “You know you’ll feel much much better when you’re stuffed to capacity with pizza and knocked unconscious by a fine bottle of red.”

So initially – you guessed it – I went on the Atkins. I’d done this diet before about three years ago while still being veggie. WHAT A NIGHTMARE. All I ate was cheese and eggs, eggs and cheese, and cheese mixed with a bit of egg. It worked – but I couldn’t stick with it for obvious reasons. And I still hate cheese and eggs to this day.

This time I decided the weight coming off was more important than my moral stand. I decided to eat meat - and I’m glad I did.

I’m glad I did because I now fully understand the following.

1: There are no quick fix diets.
2: I finally learnt how to eat healthily.

I didn’t stay on the Atkins diet for long. It made me feel terrible. Not the headaches and all that stuff that people talk about. Mostly it was the thought of all the meat I was eating.

Instead I’ve learnt to lower carbs (not cut out), eat more fruit and veg (they are our friends), lower the fat (cos fat it still bad) – and my diet is almost fully vegetarian again.

In the New Year I’m going back to vegetarianism. I feel awful for all the little bouncy animals I’ve ingested over the last six months, but I think it had to be done. I don’t regret doing it. I’m very food curious (I think you have to be as a Veggie) and there were so many foods I’d always wanted to try. You got to realise that growing up in a small town in the North of England – there wasn’t exactly the choice of food there is now.

Hell – for the first time in my life I tasted Sushi (which I hate to admit is super yummy). But I realise now, eating meat is not for me.

I’ve never had a problem with people eating meat. I’ve never lectured to people about the life style. This blog isn’t meant to make people think about what they eat.

My reasons for vegetarianism are personal. I don’t want to contribute to the killing of animals for food. It’s as simple as that. I’m not on a crusade to change the eating habits of the world. I just want to feel better within myself.

Give me 12 months and I’ll be a lean, mean, veggie machine. You just wait and see!

Nic.

posted by Nic @ 4:29 PM 0 comments