Want a Vegetarian Weight Loss Plan?

By Sophia Rodriguez 

Are you looking for a vegetarian diet weight loss plan to help you lose weight? A vegetarian protein diet may be your answer if you dream of parading around in a bikini on the beach or showing off your sexy abs to a loved one.

If you are an animal lover, or someone who cares about the environment, a vegetarian diet weight loss plan makes most sense for your health and will make a heck of a difference for your waistline.

Studies show that vegetarians generally have healthier body weights and are thinner than meat eaters. Once you become vegetarian, you can expect to lose at least 1 pound a week with no extra exercise or effort.

You can also improve your health big time with a vegetarian diet weight loss plan. You will feel hot, look hot and be in the best shape of your life. The pounds will just melt away on a proper vegetarian diet. You won`t crave crappy fatty foods anymore, you will never go hungry and you will be in the best shape of your life.

Studies show that eating animal products can increase the incidences of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity while a vegetarian diet can actually protect us from these same illnesses. A low fat, cholesterol free and high fiber vegetarian diet can go a long way towards promoting a healthy body weight.

Although the idea of never eating meat or animal products again may seem strange to those who were raised on a meat & potato tradition, once meat eaters are initiated into the world of tasty meat-like vegetarian foods, the transition won`t be painful, it will be tasty and eye-opening to a whole new delicious, sometimes exotic, sometimes comforting taste experience.

So what does a vegetarian weight loss plan look like from a practical way? What will you be eating every day?

Real foods, basic foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains, and healthy, tasty meat substitutes in combination with exotic spices and seasonings. You will not go hungry, I promise you!

To embark upon this vegetarian adventure, I would definitely recommend starting with well designed meal plan to get you used to eating, cooking and preparing healthy vegetarian meals. These meal plans should be quick and easy to realistically fit in with your busy life.

After you learn how to eat foods rich in protein to feed your muscles, you will be on your way to a trim and tight body to show off whenever and to whomever your choose.

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Types of Vegetarians and Where You Fit In

So, you`re playing around with the idea of becoming a vegetarian are you? If so, you must be wondering if you have to give up all your favorites in order to be vegetarian. Luckily, there are many steps and many ways to be more and more vegetarian as you get comfortable with the new diet.

Many people start off by being flexitarian which means that they forgo meat a few times a week without commiting to a full fledged vegetarian diet right away. Then you can progress to being pescetarian, meaning that you don`t eat birds or animals except for fish and seafood. Being Lacto Ovo vegetarian is the next natural progression where you eat no animals, birds or fish but do eat dairy products and eggs.

Finally, being vegan is the ultimate in being vegetarian where you eat nothing that used to have a face, plus, no product of an animal. Vegans protect animals from any abuse through their eating choices and in so doing also protect the environment and their health. So, you see, you can take this going vegetarian as gradually or as quickly as you are comfortable with. There is no pressure to being fully vegan straight away. Any efforts on your part will make a difference in your health, the well being of animals and the health of the environment.

Here are some resources for all these types of vegetarians so you can decide where you fit in:

Flexitarian Resource: Meatless Mondays, one day a week, cut out meat. Get the weekly recipes and your meatless monday kit by going here: www.meatlessmonday.com

Flexitarian Blog: You might relate to this adventure into flexitarianism written by Lindsay, a flexitarian foodie. She is a food enthusiast that follows a flexitarian diet and lifestyle. Check out her blog here: theflexitarianfoodie.wordpress.com

Pescetarian Resource: This website offers many articles about the advantages and disadvantages of those who choose to eat no animals except for fish and seafood. Go here for recipes, meal plans and loads of information: livestrong.com 

Pescetarian Blogs: Hard to choose just one since many people write about their pescetarian lifestyle. Here are some good ones featuring recipes, restaurant reviews and meal ideas: http://www.pescetarianjournal.com/
http://pescetimes.blogspot.com/
http://www.prana.com/blog/tag/pescetarian/

Lacto Ovo Vegetarian Resource: At this point, vegetarian resources blend into one other with sites discussing recipes, mind sets and health benefits of lacto, ovo and vegan vegetarians. This one is a brilliant website with tons of information: The Vegetarian Resource Group

Lacto Ovo Blogs: A wealth of information on this website: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/blog/tag/lacto-ovo-vegetarian
This one is an entertaining one especially for those wanting to go vegetarian without giving up dairy and eggs right away and for those who enjoy fine wines. http://chucky-thefatvegetarian.blogspot.com/

Vegan Resource:  Great tool on how to go vegetarian:  vegetarian.about.com

Another vegan must read is at the Peta Website. If you go here, you can get a Free Go Vegetarian/ Vegan Starter Kit: http://features.peta.org/VegetarianStarterKit/

And finally, for my favorite Vegan blogs:
http://govegan.net/
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
http://veganmenu.blogspot.com/

Motivation To Go Vegetarian

Why should you choose to go vegetarian?
What`s in it for you?

Well, there are many reasons that people choose to stop eating meat. You know mine...Animal Love. I have never unserstood how people can love dogs, cats and horse but eat other animals like cows, chicken and sheep. Who decided which ones are OK to eat?

• 46% of people turn to a vegetarian diet for health reasons. 
• 15% of people change their diet out of concern for animal welfare and 
• 7% do it out of concern for the environment. 
• Moral reasons account for 27% and 
• 5% for religious reasons.

What`s in it for you...

1. Ward off disease.
2. Lower your weight.
3. Live longer and healthier.
4. Reduce risk of food borne illnesses.
5. Have more energy.
6. Be more "regular"
7. Reduce pollution
8. Save money
9. Save 95 animals per year.
10. Since you are what you eat, by eating a plant based diet you are vibrant, colorful and full of energy and life.

Get even more motivation on the Vegetarian Times website here: Becoming a Vegetarian

Bringing Vegetarianism to the People (That`s You!)

I have been a vegetarian for 30 years now! To celebrate this event, I`m starting this blog to help anyone make the transition to vegetarianism. I`m not one of these preachy vegetarians...at least I don`t think I am! 

However, people ask me all the time how they can integrate vegetarian food into their life. To me, it`s so normal to eat this way since I have never really cooked meat.

My Mom tells me that in the shopping cart as she was pushing me along at the grocery store I used to question everything she put in the basket, especially if it looked like dead animal parts. I asked: Mom, is that a dead pig? She would say: Don`t worry Sophie, it`s just Pork, you like pork.

Well, that worked on and off until the age of 10 although she says she had to do some quick thinking on numerous occasions to change my focus off the dead cow my Dad would cook up on the BBQ as steak and the chicken`s wings we ate on Friday nights. But there is no way she could get me to cook up the flesh foods. I preferred baking at that age.

At the age of 10, we went on a family vacation that would be a turning point in my life and change my way of eating forever..and my sister`s too. One night while we were in Prince Edward Island in the maritime provinces of Canada, my parents bought lobster to cook up at our campground site. When my Dad threw  the live lobster in the boiling water to prepare supper, the lobster of course began his mournful wail. At that moment, it hit me! We were eating a live being that had donated his life to feed us. From that moment on, my sister and I refused to eat animals, ever again.

There are SO Many things to eat besides dead animals! The plant world is filled with hundreds of thousands of possible meal ideas and I intend to share my favorites with you through this blog. I want to show you that it`s not that hard to eat vegetarian. As a matter of fact, you probably already eat some vegetarian meals every day without even realizing it!

Let me make something clear before we get started... You don`t have to become vegetarian all at once if you think that is too much for you. You can become a flexitarian at first if that appeals to you. So eat vegetarian once or twice a week for one or two whole days and progress from there... The less meat you eat, the more animals you will save.

Did you know that by quitting the meat habit, you can save 95 animals a year. That`s right! You heard me... 95 animals will be allowed to live a peaceful life because of your change in diet.
I don`t know about you, but that gives me shivers!

And so, my goal is to help 10,527 people become vegetarian and save 1,000,000 animals. Call it my New Year`s Resolution for 2012.
Please sign up on top at right to start receiving my updates and help get you started in this healthy new way of eating. Thanks from me and the animals!!