Weight loss is not generally mystical. If we’re gaining or loosing weight on a new diet, we can bet the most significant factor is calories. If we’re feeling hungry: same thing. Can’t sleep? The poor girl was starving herself.

I think whatever rocks your boat is ok, as long as one doesn’t develop deficiencies. If someone is happy going veg, why change that? To me food has, beside the pure nutritional value, also a mental one: a satisfied soul is happier and healthier.

Of course everyone is different, but yet I am skeptical of most claims that veg is ‘not right’ for an individual. If you lost weight, you were not getting enough calories. Period. If you’re not eating enough calories in plant material, you likely don’t get enough protein.

When I started on a veg diet I remember my lunch plate was twice as volumous as coworkers’ and took me twice as long to eat. That’s to be expected.

I think it has to do with an individual. I’ve talked to some people who were like me, they tried being vegetarians and experienced the same things I had, which were lack of sleep and constant hunger. It probably had to do with how we ate when our bodies were developing.

P.S.: I’m not vegetarian, vegan or living on prana.

Well, it takes cca. 10 kg of grain to raise 1 kg of beef.

Yeah, but we eat grass feed cows, don’t we. Do you imagine how much pasture space does a single cow need + count the extra grassland needed to produce hay that will sustain it through the winter? I kinda sense that you don’t have a clue.

But pastures are natural, aren’t they? Well, guess what, they are are not. Natural vegetation in temperate areas is forest, not pastue or lawn. They are “artificial”, just as a corn field is an if we’re talking about fertilised lawns even the biodiversity (or beter say the lack of it) is more or less the same.

So, how can I say, your logic is just plain wrong.

So, if you want to help the planet, take your copy of The vegetarian myth, take it to the loo and do some recycling (if you know what I mean).

Indeed, thanks for those links, Rani!

Which is quite interesting, as there are multiple possible explanations for this. Is it in the digestion process itself or, as another example, the overall protein composition?

Sorry for any potential mistakes( English isn’t my first language).