How to become a vegetarian?
There are many ways for
becoming a vegetarian. Some people adopt the vegetarianism to improve their
health whose consider the vegetables as healthy eating and expect that the
elimination of meat would result to become a good vegetarian. Here are being
described the three main big ways for becoming a good vegetarian:
Must have good reasons
First you have to find out
the reasons for going into vegetarianism by which you neither change your
lifestyle and nor maintain your diet. There may be many reasons for it because
of that the people who love to become vegetarians explain the answer of the
question “why vegetarian is best?” some reasons are in answer the “treatment of
animal on factory farms”, “environmental concerns”, ”health needs”, “religious
convictions”, “outside pre-made meat ingredients foods” and “any of these
combination”.
Explain your choice
You must have to reveal
& explain the choice which you have decided to take foods in your daily
life to the people who are much closed to you like family members, friends,
partner etc. If everyone your closed people strongly aware about your dietary
plan or vegetarianism decision it will be more beneficial & quite better
for you because they all will be hopeful y likely to be supportive. Sometimes
invite or offer to make the vegetarian dishes for family & friends because
this is the best advertisement and revealing the choice for vegetarianism.
2. 2) Eating Vegetarian
Find vegetarian
recipes
There are many resources of
getting data about vegetarianism and all kinds of vegetable recipes in this
online fast era. You can find online many recipes about vegetarianism which you
have never seen & thought before. Just follow the internet searching or any
other cookbook full of vegetarian recipes if availability is there, in this
regard my own blog have many vegetarian recipes for you here.
Start shopping like a
vegetarian
When the progress of searching
recipes progress would be complete then start making the vegetarian dishes for
which you may have to go to the market to haul a necessary & needy quantity
of different vegetables for fulfilling your desired recipes so that you can
enjoy the different tastes of vegetarian dishes and your own desired vegetarian
meal.
Read more carefully
Here careful reading means
when you are on outside in the market for purchasing items for your making
vegetarian meal then must keep in mind which ingredients in foods to avoid and
always remember them for next purchasing. Always read on the label of any item
you are going to buy that weather this is free of any anti vegetarian
ingredients or not.
Research your
nutritional needs
Keep
researching best quality foods that contain vitamin B12, calcium, protein and
minerals for balancing health but mostly these vitamins primarily come from
meat. Being a good vegetarian you must know that from where you can get protein
and energy. By the grace of
God many plant foods contain all of these vitamins for human health.
Eat seasonally
This is a great positive effect
to health on eating everything on their seasons. The vegetables and fruits come
in season with all of its fresh vitamins because all vegetables and fruits have
a short but very fresher quality period for its consumers. So the eating of
plant based foods in seasons would result in the body full of all vitamins.
3. 3) Quit or Reducing Meat Cravings:
Slow and gradual
change
This is not possible for a
new vegetarian giving up meat entirely at once. This is a fact that a person
who eat meat mostly and a sudden change comes in his food plan that would be
totally anti meat foods this is really difficult. So the easy way that step by
step strategy adopt to quit meat from his foods such as eliminating chicken
& fish first then a red meat & beef after a week and so on. In the end
the stage will be reveal as pure vegetarian.
Eat enough foods
If
you realize that you aren’t getting enough foods, you might start craving meat.
You must have protein in you eating. And also some calorie foods are necessary
for health. If you want to gain weight so take a wide variety of legumes, nuts
and seeds for enough calorie and healthy fats.
One new recipe in a
week
For being a recent
vegetarian just try one vegetarian recipe in a week which you like before and
keep it in your most useful list. Next week add another recipe in your list
after a month you will be using four different vegetarian recipes and a time
will come you love to cook & eat more vegetarian recipes yourself and such
as you will be pure & successful vegetarian after few months.
Substitution
There are some substitutions
available for vegetarians called meatless substitute, if it is being difficult
to you the sudden giving up meat items so don’t worry there are many
alternatives available for you that are normally be adopted and you can eat but
meatless. These alternatives & substitutions can take you to the way of
successful vegetarians.
Start with red meat
No one can give up all meat
at once and that is also no need to do it. You must follow the gradual changing
process in your food plans, take one vegetarian meal in one time a day for some
days and exceed the time for vegetarian meal after some days and so on, if you
get success to do it so first give up red meat at all, which is suggested by
the experts.
Other meats
After getting full success
of giving up red meat then step ahead and make a goal to achieve for giving up
pork, chicken and seafood (you can make it for long time even months), if you
achieve this goal you will have been cut out all the items related to any kind
of meat after some weeks, this will be your success point to become a
vegetarian.
Consider dairy &
eggs
There is no need to give up
dairy & eggs if you are giving up meat, but what do you think about it
because it is known and we all have realized in many studies that dairy &
eggs have high “saturated fat” that is fact. There are many soy alternatives
you can take a few days to get used to. Consider these foods (dairy & eggs)
for only helping environment and animal suffering.
Away from junk foods
The prevention of junk foods
is quite necessary for good health because these foods is made from low quality
ingredients that directly effect to the health although getting vegetarian
recipes at home, the symptoms of junk foods are surrounding in the body therefore
the gains of vegetables cannot be absorbed perfectly.
Try new fruits & veggies
Just not to be depended upon
your own favorite fruits and vegetables that is not a good sign for good health,
every kind of fruits and vegetables should to try time to time. The seasonal
new fruits and vegetable should to try in every day or week recipe that full of
vitamins and get more strengthen to the body because its early natural growing
is quite powerful that raise more and quick body requirements.
Vegetarian snacks
Just get the vegetarian
snacks for taking the variety in your vegetarian recipes this is the way of
getting more vegetarian in the recipes because it is at side recipes of your
daily recipes. The snacks can take the body requirements towards the more
vegetable due to its varieties.
Vegetarian restaurants
Some restaurants giving
readymade healthy vegetarian foods that may be realized and known as better for
health about their ingredients that they used in their recipes can be adopted
for saving the time at home for making the same recipes because the restaurants
have the ingredients and recipes that quite difficult to gather at home.
Vegetarian convenience
foods
Convenience foods also
called tertiary processed foods such food is usually ready to eat without
further preparation having a long shelf life and easily portable. Convenience
foods include ready-to-eat dry products, vegetarian frozen foods such as TV dinners, shelf-stable vegetarian foods, prepared mixes such as snack foods.
Take cooking class
By taking classes the mind
generates the ideas about how to make different recipes with the same varieties
of vegetables the vegetarian dishes can be enjoyed in the different tastes that
is another way of enhancing vegetarian interests.
Soup & juice
The vegetable soup is most
likely to people because it has multiple vitamins in one combination. In cold
weather the vegetable soup trend exceeds in houses, restaurants etc. Also some
vegetables have its unique taste & recognized as better healthier in being
juices that are really very healthy.
Enjoy in seasons
God has created many natural
& season wise plant-based ingredients like fruits & vegetables for
human grown up. The vegetarians can extremely and confidently avail & enjoy
these natural ingredients if they really got in vegetarianism because only such
a vegetarian knows the real worth about the God gifted natural ingredients.
Early cook
Any one has no more time to
cook but wants the quick result with no matter preparing any recipe, In this
regard vegetarian dishes are only most likely dishes that could be made very
early & easily than meat dishes and which is the quite reasonable for
vegetarians. Cooking time should be less with more output in healthy results.
Free from cholesterol
If
it is realized that the vegetarian diets is free from cholesterol but have many
others vitamins so why not people adopt vegetarian diets, because cholesterol
is one of the big founder of diseases. Vegetarian diets have less protein but
have also less cholesterol. Check your cholesterol after six months of getting
vegetarian surely you will be amazed.
o o Why become vegetarian? (Benefits of becoming vegetarian)
Cutting of fats
The fat is a great anti of
vegetables & cause majority of diseases, that is why vegetarians tend to
have a lower risk of many kinds of diseases which reasons are the vegetables
are not only lower in fat but also have some good fats. Indeed meat has a lot
of protein but has a ton of fat (saturated fat). Therefore the more consumption
of vegetarian diets resulted to cutting out that bad fat. This is also a naturally
thought that fat is not likely to people.
Saving from heart diseases
The chances of diseases like
“heart disease, cancer & stokes” is minimized & much lower by taking in
nutrition “vegetarian diets” because vegetarian diets have low cholesterol and
saturated fat, while have higher intake of plant based foods and nutrients. But
the “meat-based diets” maximize the chances for heart diseases. Vegetarians
have been shown the low risk of dying of heart diseases than non-vegetarians. So
the vegetarian diets always save & protect the people from any kind of
heart diseases.
Looking fresh & smart
without oily skin
By
using of vegetarian diets your stomach is very beyond of absorption of oils and
free of having in itself any material for long period like the meats because
the plant based nutrition has no cholesterol and fat, therefore the moistures
and oils does not exist in body, because of that your face looks as fresh and
smart.
Less food poisoning
Actually food poison exists
& attacks to people of getting more amount of consuming meat, quieting out of
meat you will must be lower your risk of food poisoning, you may also cut out
the eggs & dairy but these are optional. So the vegetarian diets have low
risk of food poison.
Betterment of environment
Due to the waste of meat
industries the environment got very harmful because the air pollution of waste
material is very dangerous for human causing several fatal diseases. Mosquitoes
spread fever which born from these waste. Eating meat is a great contributor to
take the environment in serious problems, while the waste of vegetable has not
more pollution.
Reducing of weight
The
overweight is very dangerous for life it includes the heart diseases, stroke
and diabetes. The processed foods, low in plant based foods, complex carbohydrates
are making us fat and killing us slowly.
If we follow the low-fat vegetarian diets surely we will overcome and
lost our fat an average of most pounds of weight in very short time, because
the vegetarians tend to have lower body mass due to consumption of diet that is
higher in fiber-rich and low energy foods such as vegetables & fruits. So the vegetable & fruits is a great tool
of reducing fats.
Perfect & early digestive
system
The vegetarian diet is more
and highly helping tool for making our digestive system as powerful with
comparison of meat, processed foods and low in plant based foods. Vegetables
are more digest able while the meat have approx. 60 hours to be digested that
is why stomach disturbs but for vegetarian stomach remains fresh and powerful that
save from stomach diseases.
Building strong bones
The bones or skeleton of a
body is a main fundamental strength to which we have to maintain as perfect to
keep away from any type of weakness. The calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and
vitamin-D is most necessary for bones the dairy products such as yogurt, cheese,
lactose-free milk are the sources of providing these vitamins. But the
vegetables are the great sources have most healthful calcium for body like
tofu, soymilk, beans, broccoli etc.
Saving money
The items for making recipes
& dishes of vegetables are in very low prices some people like vegetables
for saving the amount of money. The vegetables dishes are very co-operative in
budgeting system because many people also make budgets with their nutrition
plan which is very necessary.
Longevity of life
For
surviving long life the vegetables are very necessary because vegetables have
low calories and carbohydrates. The easy example is that the Japanese and
Okinawa’s people have long lives because they much like the vegetables in their
nutrition.
Nutrition for more
energy
Good nutrition help to
generate more energy, definitely there is no energetic food except plant based natural
veggie foods, low cholesterol foods and animal products. The experienced and
practitioners recommended the vegetarian diets to keep the body fully energetic
from all kinds of vitamins. Good nutrition exist good health & energy.
o Types of vegetarians
The vegetarians are divided into several types
if you want to become a real and strict vegetarian you can adopt any one of the
following types of vegetarian because these are all treat in vegetarianism:
·
Vegan: The vegan is a type of
vegetarian you can call it as “pure vegetarian” beyond of any kind of consuming
animal products, red or white meat, fish or fowl, eggs & dairy products,
honey & beeswax and any other animal by product ingredients. In simple
words “a person who does not eat foods that comes from animals” such as
leather, silk, wool as well.
·
Lacto-ovo vegetarians: This is a most
common type of vegetarian in which you can’t consume any kind of animal meat,
fish & fowl. However you are almost free to consume diary & eggs
products.
·
Lacto vegetarians: This type is near
to similar lacto-ovo vegetarian here you can’t consume any kind of animal meat,
fish, fowl & also eggs products. However can consume dairy products like
milk, cheese & yogurt.
·
Ovo vegetarians: This type is all
over conflict from Lacto vegetarian here you can’t consume any kind of animal
meat, fish, fowl & diary. However can consume eggs products.
·
Pescetarian (Pescatarian): This type of vegetarian is about to abstaining of any kind of animal
meat, steak, chicken & fowl. However can consume only fish and seafood. This
is also called “semi-vegetarian” or “flexitarian” diet. In other words the
pescetarian is not technically a vegetarian. Usually some people adopt this
type for health reasons.
·
Pollotarian: This type of vegetarian is conflict from pescetarian (semi-vegetarian),
abstaining of red meat or fish & seafood. However can consume meat to poultry
and fowl only.
·
Flexitarian:
This type gives you the
flexibility in vegetarianism. This is not considered technically a “vegetarian”
diet, this actually a consumption as primarily vegetarian diet but sometimes can
have meat, fish & poultry. The people make limit to consume meat but they
almost entirely depend upon vegetarian diets such as plant based diets.
o Common types:
·
Semi-vegetarians: Plant foods with the occasional inclusion of meat.
·
Vegetarians: Practice of abstaining
from the consumption of meat.
·
Vegans: Avoiding all animal and
animal-derived products.
o The pure vegetarian conclusions
To
get the perfect and full benefits of vegetables and change in your body fitness
and muscles and also many others output which will be realized in you after
vegetarianism diet plan and adopting only vegetarian recipes you must keep in
your daily life the foods beyond of red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal. If the actual
vegetarian process be adopted that causes fitness, light weight in body,
freshness on facial expression, minimizing cholesterol, fastness in activity,
best digestive system, killing symptoms of diseases, brain wake up and other diseases
problems like maintaining blood pressure and sugar. As vegetable is very
necessary for healthy life therefore the vegetarian foods and recipes must
followed in daily kitchen because the vegetables have everything like vitamins,
proteins, carbons, carbohydrates, calcium and many other body requirements.
Just manage your daily recipes with vegetarianism not 100% vegetarian but keep
it necessary in your daily life.