By: the Vegetarian Barbarian

the Vegetarian Barbarian — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:11:40 +0000

tell you what.. I was bodybuilding for years. never went pro cuz Im not interested in stickin myself with foreign chemicals which I don’t know whats in them… I ate more then my share of meat. several times a day! talk about low on energy? talk about high on acidic state? Joint pain!!?? Many days I found it very difficult to get out of bed! I lived with pain every day, every night for years! got to the point where I had to start the day with some advils or other pain drugs to get me going again.

“why” is a LONG story but just over 7 years ago now, I quit meat – cold turkey you might say. I recall the day, I had a tin of tuna already open in front if me ready to make my snack between breakfast and lunch…. my dog was beside me looking at me longingly for the fish… I scooped out the whole tin of tuna for the dog and never ate meat since!

The dog died. Im still here. I know its not to do with the fish.. I’m just sayin.

but today at 46, I can tell you that I have no more pain. No more drugs to get me started in the am. My weigh has been about the same. I was up to 205-210 at my peak now I’m about 200 give or take couple of pounds and 6.3′ I can still walk into the gym and push 4 plates if necessary but I’m not working out that much either. I have not worked out steady in years in fact.

some times I get busy with other things and don’t do any training for weeks, months, but then I go through stages where I do calisthenics workouts and I have a full gym in my basement so if I feel like using the weights, I do that too.

but at 46, I have taken up a new sport.. skateboarding! I found I had to drive my son everywhere to skate and he was too young to leave there, so I had to sit and watch. So about a year ago, I picked up an old board I had kept since the 70′s and hopped on it. it was really slow and hard to push. I changed the bearings, still slow, so now I have a new pro board and getting right into it.

I would never have been able to do this years ago due to the pain. Now its an adrenalin rush droppin in off the top of a hill!

I also did MMA for several years after being on vegetarian diet. (many more years prior to that too) if anything, the diet gives me more energy! I also do this on about 4hrs sleep average! I go to bed at 11-12pm, up at 0300, usually till 0600, sleep till 0700, up for the day. thats just my algorithm. been like that for years.

make a few tests for yourself. first of all, try “fasting” go a day or two or more with nothing. friends go 10 days, 20 days, one woman I know went a month on only water!

once you realize that you will not die if you miss lunch, or a day of eating for that matter, then you start to realize how much we generally overeat! We really don’t need the amount of carbs we think we do.

look at lions. they eat once and they are good for days. most of the time they sit around. as humans in today society, most of the time we sit around… we sit at work, we sit on the couch, we sit in the car or subway on the WAY to work, where we SIT again… OR we are sleeping.. even at the gym most of the equipment they try to sell us on requires SITTING!!!???

BUT IRONICALLY, UNLIKE the LION, we are CONSTANTLY EATING! breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks, more snacks supper, before bed snacks! and our portions sizes…. you know the “all you can eat buffet? do you ever see skinny people there? no usually fat people cuz htey know they can keep going back for more! eating eating eating! we don’t even prepare food hardly! just drive up and get it handed to us while we are seated. While you are reading this article… sitting right?

so facts are 1) we eat way too much.
2) we really don’t need as much protein (or carbs) as we think.
3) eating meat was “taught to us” its not natural.

put a baby in a room, that hasn’t been taught any different, with a rabbit and a apple. chances are the baby will want to play with the rabbit and try to eat the apple (Im talking about a human baby ok?) it it tried to eat the rabbit, call the priest!!!

somewhere along the line, someone taught us to eat meat. we clearly don’t need it and likely prefer better without it. Im living proof. Im not dead yet and fairing pretty well Id say.

professional bodybuilder Bill Pearl had all this figured out in teh 60s and 70s! he never ate meat – dairy yes, like cheese and eggs but no fish no other meats and he won pretty much every major bodybuilding competition there was! google him. hes in his 80s now still training and training others.

Herschel Walker is 50 now. hes the Heisman trophy winner from teh 80s. he eats ONE a day. — a vegetarian meal, gets up 0500, does 1500 push ups and 2000 situps and jogs 8 miles ad day. hes recently taken up MMA!

Irop Mike Tyson gave it up 3 yeas ago now.

President Clinton dropped it after having a near death experience with heart disease.

we are simply taught these thigs by large corporations that want you to go to mcdonalds! do you think they spend millions of advertising for the good of your health? No! its because of MONEY! nothing else!

well I think Ive used up my time here – remember eating meat is a choice – not a necessity.

best, Phil

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:59:59 +0000

Personally I’ve never felt better after getting rid of the refined carbohydrates in favor of natural carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables. I’m not a vegetarian though. Meat is too awesome to go vegetarian.

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