Posted on Monday, 31st August 2009 by admin
I found this concept to be intriguing, partly because I think it’s kind of how I tend to eat. You see, I go through periods where the smell and sight of meat, especially red meats, kind of makes me sick. For example, the other weekend I got some tritip beef and the smell of the raw meat made me just about want to gag. I hated that the cooking of this meat made our whole downstairs smell for hours, and the smell somehow was nauseating to me. I try to take these kinds of cues from my body as signs that I just shouldn’t eat meat that day. Some days it might be very appealing, and I’ll opt for that steak though.
The flexitarian diet is basically one that is primarily vegetarian but you can incorporate an animal fat into your diet once daily. As long as it’s a healthy meat preferably. This is a bit different from the typical American diet where people eat meats with almost every meal, for example, some sausage for breakfast, some lunch meat on a sandwich for lunch and some chicken for dinner. This type of diet can tend to be high in saturated fat and also not easily digestable, putting more strain than necessary on the digestive system and the bowels.
Flexitarians get the best of both worlds without overdoing it in the meat department. You can eat a vegetarian or vegan meal for breakfast and lunch, and then try a healthy, organically produced meat for dinner, but still watch your portioning, and you may see your signs of health improve because you’ve converted to a mostly plant based diet, whis is excellent because you are getting a lot of phytonutrients, tons of natural chlorophyll and antioxidants, and tons of naturally cleansing and regulating fiber.
Some of the meal ideas you can use are things like brown and wild rice with some avocados and tomatoes chopped over it (one of my faves), maybe a veggie sandwich if you’re at a restaurant, or a salad minus the meat but with a healthy portion of low fat cheese and an olive oil based dressing, a bowl of lentil soup, the possibilities are endless and if you go to a restaurant that caters to vegetarians, then you have all that many more choices.
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