No I gradually phased out, starting with red meats, then eliminated seafood, then finally white meats. Didn't matter how many protein shakes or supplements I added to my diet I just couldn't keep my energy and weight where they needed to be.
It's stupid from a culinary standpoint to completely eliminate perhaps the most important food group, and nutritionally, you have to tread very carefully to be a vegetarian and not be a twig with no energy. Moralist vegetarianism is also pointless.
I prefer the term 'flexitarian' to describe my tastes. It's less about cutting out meat than hardly eating any at all. I tried going cold turkey when I first became a vegetarian, but I crashed hard, so I decided I'd just cut my animal intake to the bare minimum until I can manage. I want to lose weight, not picket meat factories, so eating a steak or a burger every so often doesn't phase me.
And there's more to protein than meat. Other foods have it too, but no one eats them as often or knows they have lots o' protein.
I've been a vegetarian all my life and I've never had energy problems.Nevertheless I have heard of many people who has them when they change their diet.I think that the change must be analyzed and you must find food that fulfills your nutritional needs.
Anyhow, I'm not a fan of anything but meat and pasta. Which typically has meat. I rarely eat anything without meat in it, and more often than not, eat just meat.
Unless you hunt and grow your own food, you are considered a scavenger, as you take what others have prepared. Since I don't hunt, yet grow crops, I'm an herbivore.
Not completely true, you can always have a balanced vegetarian diet, you can get your protein from other sources, you just have to know how.
True, but it is very difficult, even if you do know how. Not to mention the numerous fatty acids that you need yet are only found in meat. For an average person yeah, they could probably make do with no meat. Apply that same balanced diet to a professional athlete, martial artist, or anyone else with high demands for proteins and fatty acids and a necessary energy intake much higher than the average person and that becomes an ineffective diet.
