Eating Meat Again

After three years of no red meat, I had my fist steak on New Years Eve. After watching some really gruesome and eye opening food documentaries I tried vegetarianism for a month, that turned into a year, then I added in fish for a year, then chicken for the last, and now I'm back to meat. Full circle.

Blue cheese burger time!

If you are a vegetarian or vegan yourself you are probably wondering why I went back to the meaty ways, where as if you are not I can almost guarantee you are cheering me on for coming back to the "real food." All of these changes were for health reasons of my own and the decisions were made after digesting new bits of information each time. The initial two, adding fish and then chicken back in  were because I was trying to work out and the vegetarian diet just wasn't cutting it for me. I know there are those of you that make it work, but it just wasn't something for me.

If I wanted to be waif-like, not work out and just eat vegetables and the occasional tempeh it might have been fine. But I needed to run and I despise protein shakes and tofu doesn't really do it for me. The best tofu recipe I found was for a dessert, Tofu Pudding. My problem with protein shakes is that they all taste chalky to me - even "the good ones." I also noticed that whenever I was choking swallowing them down I would breakout like crazy. Definitely not something I was okay with so I added seafood back into my diet.

When seafood still wasn't giving me the energy and stamina I had hoped for I added chicken back in.  I wasn't running marathons here either, just three miles max.

Now I'm almost 29 and it's time to start thinking about growing our family. Lack of meat, lack of iron... you can Google it if you care to. And I'm not going to lie, I really wanted a filet smothered in blue cheese. I am just over a month in to having pork or beef three times a week and I feel fine. A little fuller feeling the morning after having one of the two, but no stomach aches or anything. I am still being conscious about what I eat. Always going for the grass-fed, free range options, and limiting how much meat I do eat.

Note that I have not had my blood-work done so I have been making all of these changes off of just knowing my body. I have had a few people ask how the transition back to eating meat has went so I wanted to write it out for any others considering doing the same and looking for a reference. I am not trying to tell any of you to change up what you eat, nor am I asking to be chastised by the vegetarian gang. Just simply telling how eating meat again has affected me.

Have you made any major changes in what you eat? 

I will still being eating vegetarian meals a 

couple times a week, do you have any good recipes to share? 

Perhaps your best way to prepare tofu?

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