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Originally Posted by Michelle  Where I admit to lacking is in the veggie/fruit area. I do eat these foods as well, but perhaps not in the needed quantities? I was out to dinner tonight with my boyfriend and ordered some vegetable kebabs and pumpkin soup. Honestly, when my meal arrived, I couldn't stop thinking "Where is my food, where is my food?", and I can't admit to feeling satisfied. |
I've been experimenting with vegan/vegetarian diets for the past month and a half, and if I don't eat a lot of vegetables and some fruit I feel sluggish and cloudy headed too. I do have to mix it up with stuff that does make me feel full, though -- so I eat a lot of whole wheat English muffins with peanut butter! With salads, sauteed veggies over brown rice, a few ounces of my favorite nuts, snacking veggies like baby carrots, strips of bell peppers and hummus.
So I'd focus on finding foods that make you feel full, and putting in a concsious effort to eat as many veggies (and fruit) as you can at every meal.
Another thing you want to pay attention to in addition to foods that make you feel full are foods that make you hungry. Soda (even diet) makes me hungry pretty quickly. White bread makes me hungy. Chocolate and sweets make me hungry. Junk food makes me hungry. White rice, too. (These are all high GI items, I think, too.) Peanut butter on whole wheat fills me up. Oatmeal REALLY fills me up! Coffee curbs my appetite, but I get a lot hungrier later in the day. Salad dressing a lot of the times makes me hungry, too.
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Originally Posted by Michelle I tend to be very sensitive to my environment, and am quite aware of vibrational differences in foods/people, etc. Do you think an inability to maintain vegetarianism is a direct reflection of a low state of consciousness? |
No, no, no!!! Give yourself and your body some credit.
Not even Ghandi and his followers could maintain a total vegan, raw diet -- they eventually had to add in goats' milk. Don't let your diet be a gateway towards self-punishment and guilt. One thing that I think is true in veg*an diets and life in general is that you have to be flexible. A militant attitude leaves no room for compassion (for yourself or others!), and isn't that the reason for veg*an diets (and life) in the first place?