Becoming vego: late intro
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: diet, Health, Steve Pavlina, vegan, Vegetarian 1 Comment »Here’s actually a late intro to my blog.
I was reading Steve Pavlina‘s personal development for smart people website one day, and came across this idea from him that he found vegetarian diet keeps you more energetic and makes it easier for you to control your concentration level. And beneficial results were found with his wife when she went on vegetarian diet. Neither of them did it due to the animal concern like most vegetarians did. And after a few years he even switched from being a vegetarian to being a vegan. This really inspires me. I wonder if there will be any changes in my life – energy level after I go on vegetarian diet. So here I am, setting up this blog to document my experiment 
Maybe some day my not so significant blog page can inspire some other health concerned people as well. That’s my new found goal.
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Vegetarian & Weight Loss!
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: Health, vegan, Vegetarian, Weight Loss Leave a comment »
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It’s assumed that being vegetarian will have benefits for weight loss, and research does show that! For example, Research has shown people following a typical vegetarian diet consume, on average, around 500 fewer calories daily than their meat-eating counterparts. Interestingly, the research showed that they actually ate more food than non-vegetarians.
The theory behind weight loss is that vegetarians’ diets are comprised mainly of complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are starchy, fiber-rich foods, and are naturally low in fat – every 3,500 calories cut equals one pound lost.
But, preparation method also effects weight loss. Foods that are boiled, steamed, sauteed contain less fat than if fried, deep fried and that involves a lot of dressing.
No wonder …. that’s why I’m on the way of losing but on the contrary gaining way! Cuz I tend to eat a lot than i did when i was non-vegetarian, I always stir fried stuff and eat late! ahh cautions ladies!!
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Vegetarian: Day 8
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: Cooking, diet, Fruit and Vegetable, Health, vegan, Vegetarian Leave a comment »
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Weight
Weight as of today at 8:58am is … … 45.2 KG
Arh! I gained 1.1 KG as compared with when i just started being a vegetarian. why…..
Breakfast
As you can expect, breakfast was cereal with soy milk. To add a bit of flavor to my mouth I had a banana afterwards.
Lunch
I made myself stir fried Hokkien noodle with beans, carrots and capsicum. Just to make it weird, I added some tomato seeing there was one more tomato left in the fridge. Result was a disaster, it tasted sort of like expired food >.<
But at least it’s nutritious! GAH!
Dinner
Dinner was basically the same as lunch as I obviously made a lot at lunch.
One thing that keeps you energetic all day, i found, is having meals at a small amount each time, and eat something small every 2 hours. If you stuff yourself up too much at one time, then your body will function in working out the stomach, leaving you fatigue and hard to concentrate. So yeh, have a small amount of food each time you eat!:)
Raw Food Diet ?
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: diet, Health, raw food, vegan, Vegetarian 3 Comments »
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Today i read as i was reading some articles online I came across this raw food diet concept. Raw food diet, as the name suggests, is food that is eaten raw, or uncooked!!! or what they call “living food”. Theoretically, raw food diet is really suppose to help you lose weight, and maintain a very healthy diet for you.
Here are some blogs that discusses about raw food diet:
Raw good tips
This artical talks about the origin of raw food diet, and argues that eating food uncooked is more nutritious because since it’s uncooked, there will be less Nutrition loss that generally happens in the process of cooking food.hmmmm maybe?
I was a bit concerned about the taste of the food, how disgusting would that be !? But ….. BUT
You can solve it by using other ways of preparing food such as using a juice blender !! Check this out for more detail.
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Vego “Fat” Food
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: pizza, vegan, Vegetarian Leave a comment »Vego Pizza
What is vegetarian pizza look like?
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Answer is …. It just looks lieke pizza! Just with a potato tippoing we can her whatever you link.
Vego Cheese
In my mind vego chees = mink cheese, but the ones in australia are so much better
Vegetarian: Protein?
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: diet, Health, protein, vegan, Vegetarian Leave a comment »
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I was for once worried that when i become vegetarian, how am I gonna get sufficient protein to maintain a healthy life…. I was indeed worried, so i found these links that are useful in explaining protein and vegetarian diets:
Did you know….
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: animal, California Department of Water Resources, Health, vegan, Vegetarian, water consumption, Water resources Leave a comment »
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The volume of water consumption related to livestock is shocking!!!
As of the data from 2000-01, agriculture takes up 67% of water consumption across all industries in Australia. That is 16,660 GL!!!
Within the agriculture sector, animal and animal by-products account for a shocking amount:
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- embodied water fed to pigs and poultry in feed might be estimated in the region of 20 GL and 10 GL respectively !!!
this is just a small example,for more check this website for details:
http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/drs/indicator/334/index.html
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Vegetarian: Day 7
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: aussie, diet, Health, vegan, Vegetarian, weight Leave a comment »
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Weight
45kg! same old same old…..
Breakfast
same old same old ….yes, that’s right…. it’s cereal + soy milk!
Cereal is the best.
I’m feeling like a corn-fed chicken! LOL
Lunch
A bit naughty today, I had something super Aussie style ….
Fish & Chips!
It was quite huge and oily, and I finished all of it!
In the afternoon I got tired really quickly and found myself hard to concentrate again, can it be the oil level with the fish and chips i had for lunch? hmmm
Dinner
Green tea soba + spinach + mushroom.
I was fairly fairly tired after dinner still. About an hour after dinner my energy started to come back to me a bit. and slowly i felt that i could concentrated better!
Snack
This is possibly the healthiest snacks ever – an orange and a pear 3 hours after dinner!
One week anniversary of being a vegetarian! weeee
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Vegetarian: Day 6
Posted: June 6, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: diet, Health, vegan, Vegetarian, weight 1 Comment »Just a quick note, June 4 was actually my day 6:P
Weight
First thing in the morning, i weighed myself!44.80KG. Considering it’s before breakfast, i would say my weight has been pretty steady since i went on vegetarian diet.
Breakfast
Ｉknow it may sound boring, but my breakfast has exclusively been cereal with soy milk!
Lunch
Had lunch in one of the Asian food outlet in school. Delicious!
Steamed brocoli + carrot + baby corn;
Steamed fish with pepper
Fried rice noodle with sesame.
After lunch i felt a bit sleepy for a while, but when the dizziness wared out I felt really pumped up and energetic!
Dinner
I made myself a nice rice noodle with spinach and mushroom for dinner.
For days I’ve been eating really “tasteless” dinners, but i figured at night you don’t need that many fancy food as you’ll just do some work and go to bed. Why carry such a weight to sleep huh?
Naughty thing I did…
Just before dinner, i quickly snapped a small kitkat. It was sitting in my cupboard and i was so tempted by it! It should be okay since I’m not a vegan yet… or is it not ok 
What’s wrong with what we eat
Posted: June 5, 2008 Filed under: Vegetarian | Tags: diet, Health, meat, vegan, Vegetarian 2 Comments »We have an overwhelming idea from our society that poultry and dairy products are essential to our health. But quite the opposite, we don’t need animal products or white bread or coke to function as a human being!!! It’s actually the PLANTS through animals that make people healthy!!!
Green house gases produced by animals and the processing of animal products account for 1/15 of the total green house gases, even more than transportation!
In the highly developed western society these days, many people grew up not eating much fresh food.
Between 1920 and 2000, the world population, the world population doubled, meat consumption increased FIVEFOLD! Freaking fivefold people! There’s a serious problem of overproduction and overconsumption of meat and junk food.
For more take a look at Mark Bittman‘s talk:
