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Comment by Zee-Zee on May 14, 2009 at 9:18pm

Response to Steve Berkoff’s question “Any suggestions for a vegetarian weight loss program?”

I have lost weight successfully by a modified counting calories system. I found counting calories directly too tedious. So I counted “points” instead. Each point was worth 50 calories and I measured to the nearest quarter point.

This meant most fruits and vegetables were either a quarter or half a point, and adding up a column of halfs and quarters is much easier than bigger numbers. (Effectively it puts the least significant digit into base 4).

I made a page of my most eaten foods with their points. For fruit and vegetables I had how big a portion was half a point. For most other foods I listed the points in a 100g, except for things like oils, margarine and jam where I listed the points in a teaspoon full.

I weighed my self each day first thing in the morning and averaged the weight for the week. I found this was the easiest way to see the trend as I found water retention and other variables made other methods not show it up.

I found all this counting and measuring kept me on track, because it made me very conscious of what I was eating. But it would depend on your personality whether this would work for you.

Comment by Zee-Zee on May 14, 2009 at 8:50pm

Response to Susthama's comment "I don't know how to go about bringing it to Leicester's attention but will look into it."

There are local council elections coming up in Britain in May. It is vegetarian week in Britain next week too. So it is an idea time to raise the issue. We could ask each of the candidates that are standing in our local patch whether they would support Narborough District Council going vegetarian. The local council office can provide a list of candidates.

Comment by Susthama on May 14, 2009 at 8:24pm

Hi Lut,

I hope other cities follow this initiative too. I don't know how to go about bringing it to Leicester's attention but will look into it.

Comment by Lut Moerman on May 14, 2009 at 7:24pm

Yes Susthama, Ghent must be the first city in the whole world who takes this initiative. The reason is that the production of meat is making so much polution, especialy now that people in counties like China etc.. begin to eat meat we need several planets for the food of all the animals. Next year even the schools in Ghent will have one veggie-day a week. Thursday will be the veggie-day. I hope many people will follow , and other citys too...

Comment by Susthama on May 13, 2009 at 11:10am

Hi Lut,

I've just heard the Ghent, Belgium has announced that they are going to promote vegetarianism by making one day a week 'vegetarian only day.' BBC news story Ghent - veggie one day a week

Comment by Lut Moerman on May 12, 2009 at 7:40pm

I'm a vegetarian since about 10 years, buth not so very rigourous. Sometimes, for example if invited somewhere, eating the food which is served. If there is so very much good and healty vegetables, why killing animals and eating meat ? Sometimes we eat fish and I make meat for my daughters on there request 2-3 times a week... Now I take attention to kill no insects when I find them in the house, an old reflection : the house must be clean. I take them and put them outside. Maybe a good beginning of being more compassionated whith animals?

Comment by Steve Berkoff on May 2, 2009 at 12:13am

I became a vegetarian about three months ago and I haven't had any real cravings for meat except for fish (it's a Hawaii thing:) I haven't slipped yet, and I'm committed to not harming animals if I can avoid it. However, I have put on a couple of pounds since I started, and I really need to lose weight. Any suggestions for a vegetarian weight loss program?

Comment by Kenny Lewis on April 26, 2009 at 10:38pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTQergr29M

"A small and very funny animation of a parody of star wars, made to alert people about some of the serious problems of producing and eating food using dangerous synthetic chemicals, Genetically Modified Organisms, allowing big corporation interests control the food chain, and other problems that helps to destroy nature and the health of people. As this animation shows, producing and buying organic food on smaller and more ethical stores is the best solution for many of these problems."

KL x

Comment by Zee-Zee on April 18, 2009 at 8:07pm

Veganism in respoce to Franco Acquaro's comment

For a few years I was only "vegan at home", as thought it would be too difficult when outside my home. When I finally made the shift to being fully vegan I found it easier than I thought it was going to be.

For the first year I decided to write in a little note book any time I was not vegan. Not to beat myself up but to see if there were any patterns and particularly challenging situations. At the end of the first year there was only one entry in my little note book!

How hard being vegan would be for you depends on your lifestyle, what sort of friends you have and whether you have any cravings for dairy containing foods for example milk chocolate. What do you think would be the most difficult about going fully vegan?

Comment by Mervyn Carter on April 18, 2009 at 10:04am

Thanks to Franco Acquaro for your thoughts on veganism, and Greetings, Friend

Veganism has so many benefits, to health, ethics and the environment, I strongly feel it's the truly skillful way to feed oneself. As a rough figure, veganism creates about one third of the resource use of vegetarianism - one fifth that of meat-eating - a bigger reduction than one might think

Of course, you aren't compelled to go to 100% vegan straight away - few people do that. How about making one vegan meal per week to start ? Choose a weekend and spend time creating something that's really tasty, nourishing, beautiful - something that you can really enjoy. Perhaps drop one non-vegan item from your food stocks, something that you are not so attached to. Build up to Vegan Weekends, then move on as your skills and enjoyment of vegan cuisine blossoms. Slowly work your way towards the target of mainly vegan food, and don't feel you've got to beat yourself up if eat a slice of non-vegan cake once in a while

It doesn't matter so much how high up the mountain you are. It matters more whether you're climbing, or falling !

Bon appetite !

Mervyn Carter
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Veganism means never having to explain to an animal why your
lunch is more important than its life
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