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Hi there, glad to be beginning with your group.  My name is Christine, I am from

Northern Illinois (cold cold cold:) and I was looking for a vegetarian

group--your name and mission statement appealed to me from both a visceral and

literary perspective.  Glad to be here.

 

I am a 40+ woman, vegetarian for over two years, two daughters--high school and

20 something.  Youngest led me to vegetarianism when she decided not to eat meat

products at the age of 12--the more I watched and listened to her, the more sold

I became.  As I cooked meals (at first so worrying about her protein

requirements) I began to realize it was silly and wasteful to make two separate

main dishes--and as I began to eat meatless I began to drop pounds like no diet

had ever done for me--and I ate pretty much what I wanted--just like the

commercials--just no meat or meat products.  I attribute the 40 lbs of weight I

lost (from a 30.2 bmi to my current 24.9 bmi) I realized skipping fast food,

watching labels, and eliminating meat was my new life.

 

I don't talk much about the life-choice, it just isn't that big a deal, except

with wider family at holidays and get togethers.  I just find it to be a healthy

way for me to live in a less cruel way.  I occasionally prepare meat for my

significant who has a very difficult and demanding physical job, usually I can't

eat myself afterward, the blood and flesh thing has become really gross for me. 

I probably will stop doing that, sometime soon--hope this group can help me with

some good and quick and hearty recipes to allow me to eliminate the meat from

most of his diet, too.  He is willing but doesn't drink dairy, eat cheese,

eggs--due to coronary artery disease.  We have/he has used the Ornish diet, but

most of the Ornish recipes are labor intensive, expensive, and time consuming. 

All the things that are hard for me on a budget of time and money.

 

I also hope for some fun support---thanks for listening, look forward to reading

your posts.

 

Christine