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WriterAlexis

After spending a year as such, I am giving up vegetarianism.

I did the best I could for the planet and the ethical treatment of animals.

For the first time, my New Year's Resolution revolves around a weight loss goal. I am finding it difficult to get the protein/calorie ratio I want without resorting to animal products. Sorry, all you fluffy chickens and chubby pink walking hams.

Joh

WriterAlexis You can minimise meet and substitute it with pulses such as chickpeas and lentils. They have a high protein content. I don't think you have to give up meat completely. And if you need more calorie Olive oil or salmon are a good source.

curious

WriterAlexis
Scientists belief that the addition of meat to the human diet was the factor that allowed for the evolutionary development of our large but energy hungry brain.
If this is true, we can look at vegetariams and even more vegans only with pitty. Trying to deliberately walk back the path that distinguishes our species from all others seems to be a rather stupid attempt.

Ines

WriterAlexis I did the best I could for the planet and the ethical treatment of animals.

I eat everything. Mostly because I get used to it with the nutritional programs while I was playing at elite level and because I like it.
What we do is to buy ethical products, free cows meat, free chicken meat, eggs, free cows milk.
A thing is to eat a cow and another to accept that this cow has had a miserable life.

WriterAlexis For the first time, my New Year's Resolution revolves around a weight loss goal

The belt is a good help, and as you use chastity bra, I guess that is even more help for it.

Joh

curious We will see if the scientist are right or wrong in near future.
Their are many vegetarian exist over a long time without any problem to use their brain properly.

Milord

Joh Non think vegan can be unhealthy, not vegetarian

youdontknowme

Joh The reason so many people have problems with their diet is how different the world we live in is from the world we evolved in. Just like we have much more access to sugar and salt than our ancestors ever did and it hurts us, we also have more access to plant-based protein sources. Not having to rely on meat can be seen as an achievement of our development. What got us here won't get us there.

That said, I am remaining an unapologetic carnivore myself. Sometimes the appropriate side dish to a steak is bacon.

WriterAlexis

Ines

The belt is a good help, and as you use chastity bra, I guess that is even more help for it.

Eh?

Ines

WriterAlexis

I do not understand your "Eh? ", Alexis.
I mean that the belt is good tool to avoid to eat so much.

Angelina

I admit that I often eat meat, very often in fact, but I would still consider my diet to be healthy because I try to avoid artificial additives. I also buy meat and vegetables from a local farm where I am sure I can do it ethically. Of course I spend more money on it than in a discount store, but there is a huge difference both ethically and in terms of taste 🙂

Sasha

Angelina Have an omnivorous diet, try to avoid additives, buy ethically farmed meat products and shop at local farmers markets.
But if you can grow your own fruits it’s so much nicer. Plus all the fruit trees out back looks great too.

WriterAlexis

Sasha

But if you can grow your own fruits it’s so much nicer. Plus all the fruit trees out back looks great too.

Our current living arrangements do include a live fig tree. Sadly, I am allergic to raw figs.

Angelina

Sasha

unfortunately i can't grow my own fruit, but i mostly eat vegetables rather than fruit, which i also buy from the farm if possible

pestulens

WriterAlexis A shame, I love them fresh from the tree.

Sin

WriterAlexis I have been manifesting anxiety and OCD for as long as I have been communicative.

WriterAlexis unmedicated and left to my own devices, it would become highly compulsive during high stress times. I can remember the weeks before some of my academic tests or some of the swimming/horseback competitions I was doing, my membranes would be raw and inflamed in the morning.

This hits home for me and brings up all sorts of issues I'm still trying to work through as a 30-something adult. As a teenager I was (very inappropriately) misdiagnosed for what was essentially a physical condition, and heavily medicated with antidepressants that I didn't need, and certainly didn't want. I'm mid 30s now and only just coming to terms with my own libido as a result.

Not to say I disagree with your mental health diagnosis... just that antipsychs are a slippery slope and if you ever want to come off them, you might be in for a hell of a ride. HINT: Don't go cold turkey like I did.

curious

Sin HINT: Don't go cold turkey like I did.

I second that recommendation. Most drugs that are for whatever kind of psychic condition (no matter if antidepressive or anti-psychotic or whatever require a slow weaning process. Stopping from one day to the other can be life threatening.

WriterAlexis

Sin

if you ever want to come off them, you might be in for a hell of a ride.

I had been taken off them too quickly in the past.

You can identify the veteran depressives when they know to do it very sloooooowly.

Milord

WriterAlexis I want to keep my phone. I want to be able to go to the library. I need transportation to do certain things. I want to be able to leave the house unchaperoned, so I can work/volunteer, because those are important to my future and I want to be able to help people.

I haven’t read this before. As a parent I would encourage this, and I will be proud of my son should he decide to help others and volunteer.
In my opinion a parent should provide this, tied to economical situation, and not use it as a trade off to impose things (not only CB of course).

youdontknowme

Milord I doubt it is used as a bargaining chip only, they just want to control her access to unfiltered information and ability to engage in activism, and she has negotiated hersrlf some liberties there.

Milord

youdontknowme

I will never understand this, but I hope my son will be like Alexis. Curious about that world and burning with the sacred fire to change the world.

WriterAlexis

Milord

Well behaved women seldom make history. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

youdontknowme

Milord I am happy that my father has always been a little like you. Maybe not as inspiring when it comes to standing up for a good cause, but definitely encouraging curiosity and nurturing independent thought. As a male who is a generation younger than you, I am convinced you make a great father figure in your son's life.

Sasha

Milord Curious about that world and burning with the sacred fire to change the world

I’d just like to build on that mindset.
If fostering the desire for curiosity and the knowledge that if it’s not right we can change it, we must establish right and wrong first.
Because it’s natural that a young adult becomes curious about the darker side of the world, but it must only be observed from a distance.
Learn everything you can without going over there, so you can avoid it when confronted by it, and drive it out from places it shouldn’t be.

I believe you personally are way ahead of me on this and have already done so of course, just a friendly caution for anyone else who comes across this who may not be

Sin

WriterAlexis You can identify the veteran depressives when they know to do it very sloooooowly.

Three years was enough, I quit the day I moved out to go to uni.

I wasn't depressed either (at least not until I tried to get off them). I just had a shit geriatric obgyn who decided I was a horndog instead of treating me properly and referring me to a physio.

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