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Nutrition & Supplementation / Re: Vegetarianism
« on: January 19, 2016, 12:29:23 pm »Any veggies on here?
Considering going lacto-ovo. I eat so much meat, 90% for 'protein'...which is dumb cos ethically i don't like eating meat and i can get plenty of protein without it. I'll probably still eat a steak or something if I go out, not going to be anal about it, but that still represents a HUGE reduction in my meat consumption. I was a vegetarian before i started training properly, and I'd like to go back.
I've switched mostly to lacto-ovo in recent months. I get plenty of protein from eggs (cage free), yogurt (greek), cheese, and milk. I definitely need to eat more veggies though, havn't been eating as much lately. I love eating like this. I feel better (physically and ethically) eating this way.
I too have ethical issues eating meat/poultry etc. If I purchase meat/poultry myself, I make sure to get free-range/no hormones (etc) products. Unfortunately the chicken/meat I eat ~1x/week going out (bbq/restaurants etc), I have no idea what their sources are. It bothers me but not as much as when I was eating like that EVERY DAY. So I feel better about it.
I don't think I could ever go full vegan, I love meat/chicken too much. This smoked brisket I eat once in a while is too good to give up completely. Personally, I just need to keep focusing on keeping my meat/poultry intake down to 1-2x/wk.
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Any tips? regarding protein or any other nutrients (iron etc).
I'd still consume a tonne of milk, cheese, eggs, yoghurt, whey protein - from these i don't see any problem getting enough protein. Other non-dairy sources?
What's the consensus on soy?
Also mycoprotein - is there anything that makes it a no no?
Sorry lots of questions. Would be interested to hear from any other veggies!
no advice/answers from me here, i don't dig as deep into nutrition. considering the type of training you are into, lacto-ovo seems alot "safer" than vegan though. I don't suspect your training will suffer at all by going lacto-ovo.
on a side note, Jim Wendler said recently to his followers or people wanting to see gains, "eat 1.5 lb. of meat per day".. I understand his advice and agree it's effective if pure strength & mass is what you are after.. but i'm not into that at all (ethically or health-wise). If those were my goals, i'd rather achieve them through a diet void of 1.5+ lb. of meat per day (GOMAD is similar). I'm glad i'm "reverse bulking" now though, love being light.
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