UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 6^th, 2014 at 9:51pm:



Cutting out red meat from your diet certainly will help with weight loss, as long as it isn't replaced by anything.

That's the mistake many people make: they cut out red meat but then fill up their plate with something else (an extra potato, or another bread roll, for example.)

The average person doesn't need as much protein as they think.

Beans, nuts, vegetables, and grains will do the job.

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 6^th, 2014 at 9:51pm:


I wasn't talking about weight loss.  The question was why would cutting out red meat (feel like) you have more energy.

Im on the green smoothie thing. Green smoothie for breakfast, made up of kale, ginger and blueberries with protein  powder. Never had so much energy, Im an athlete so really feel the difference in energy levels, also body fat percentage has decresaed dramatically without losing any muscle mass, I have maintained the same weight but waist size has gone down a couple of notches. still eat plenty of red meat though, tried cutting it out years ago and felt very weak without it.

Here's some nice ways to enjoy a variety of healthy water drinks.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 7^th, 2014 at 9:37am:


that's because after they eat their salad they are still fricken starving...

get a bit of meat into your guts and you'll feel satisfied and full...

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people always "crap on" about a "balanced" diet...

just eat a balanced diet...

but never tell you what this is...

sure a balanced diet is what everyone should have but its the "amount" most people stuff up...

they load their plates up with mountains of a "balance diet"....

so this is where they go wrong...

its the "AMOUNT" .....

you need to learn how many calories is in everything you eat and then adjust the amount you eat....

but how many calories can you have a day?

depends on how many you burn in a day and how active you are....

if you know this then keeping to an amount of calories is easy...

meat... have 100 grams (cooked) a day
chicken 125 grams cooked

which is probably half the amount what people usually have...

I use a fitbit to keep an eye on how many calories I burn... my calorie intake is under 2000 a day and I average around burning 2500 or higher...

weigh everything you eat and work out how many calories there is in the food you eat...

this will teach you what the amount of each food looks like... after a few meals with 125 grams of chicken you get to tell what aprox 125 grams looks like... what 50 grams of mixed vegetables looks like... etc etc

my biggest problem is weekends... 

low activity and a higher calorie intake... 


I can lose a kilogram in a week but put it back on again over a weekend... vicious circle... but at least I know what to do to turn this around...

I have lost 3kg since xmas...

go me... 

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this is one of my awards... 

Eggs and Capsicums!!!!  Yummy!

I was vegetarian for ten years or more.  I did eat eggs and dairy, but no meat, poultry or fish.  I'm not sure how it started, but I think it was a combination of concerns over animal welfare and an interest in Eastern philosophies and religions (I was actually seriously considering converting to Buddhism for a while but didn't).

It was an overseas holiday that was the undoing of it all.  I was staying for three weeks in a town that had a working fishing harbour.  I was about four houses from the harbour and next door to a very popular fish and chip shop.  Not only that, but every afternoon, the air at that end of town filled with the aroma of smoking fish.  I ended up eating fish at least every second day.

When I got back to Australia, I suppose my resolve had weakened somewhat and, one day, I had this sudden urge to have bacon and eggs (bacon was the only meat I had really missed eating in all that time) and it wasn't long before meat had found its way back into my diet, although for some reason I have totally lost any desire to eat poultry.

Nowadays I would have meat maybe twice a week, fish maybe three times a week.  I can't say that I feel much different, although I've been told that my skin colour is better than it used to be when I was vegetarian.  I also find that I love cooking meat (perhaps more so than actually eating it).