Ever heard of it? I hadn't until yesterday and now I'm intrigued. Essentially, it's vegetarianism with benefits (i.e. meat!). When one becomes a flexitarian, their meals are made predominantly vegetarian. Every now and then, however, a flexitarian allows themselves to eat meat. It's all about flexibility. The reason this piques my interest is because I have always been interested in becoming a vegetarian. I have tried it several times, but it never quite stuck. Statistically speaking, vegetarians live up to three years more and weigh 15% less on average than meat eaters. Additionally, the human body is really only supposed to be capable of consuming around 4 oz of meat per day. Now think about it, how overboard have we become as a country? A "small" steak at a restaurant is about 7 oz. However, I digress.
Flexitarianism seems to be the perfect nutritional balance while still indulging my cheating ways. Let's face it, giving up meat and fish entirely is just not something I could feasibly do. In this new lifestyle of mine, I've been trying to make these kind of decisions while asking myself "can this last?" I never want to do something that I don't see myself maintaining. And I really can see myself maintaining this way of eating. So we will see how this fares :). Part of the reason why I'm up for giving this a try is because should I want to go back to my regular way of eating, there's really no failure as meat is allowed in a flexitarian diet. So, there really is no risk of feeling bad about myself! I think what I will strive for going forward will be to eat vegetarian five days a week while giving myself two cheat days to eat meat. I'm keeping fish up for grabs for all seven days, however. So, until next time!
Looove,
Neva
Flexitarianism seems to be the perfect nutritional balance while still indulging my cheating ways. Let's face it, giving up meat and fish entirely is just not something I could feasibly do. In this new lifestyle of mine, I've been trying to make these kind of decisions while asking myself "can this last?" I never want to do something that I don't see myself maintaining. And I really can see myself maintaining this way of eating. So we will see how this fares :). Part of the reason why I'm up for giving this a try is because should I want to go back to my regular way of eating, there's really no failure as meat is allowed in a flexitarian diet. So, there really is no risk of feeling bad about myself! I think what I will strive for going forward will be to eat vegetarian five days a week while giving myself two cheat days to eat meat. I'm keeping fish up for grabs for all seven days, however. So, until next time!
Looove,
Neva
April 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM
This sounds like what I am! I've been calling it "anti-Catholicism" because I was eating meat on Fridays but no other days haha. It's so hard to do living in the dorm though and still get proper nutrition, so good thing you are about to be done with that!