Any other ex-vegetarians here?

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I was your classic VUG - vegetarian until graduation. I never read

anything about health or nutrition, but the dogma of the time was

that pasta and high carb foods were good for sports performance. I

never paid any attention at all to 'cholesterol clogging your

arteries', I guess scientists had flip-flopped enough that it wasn't

worth paying attention to. But I did feel that eating fat made you

fat and carbs were good, potent energy sources. I had a few

vegetarian friends and they seem to have a certain kind of pride

about their lifestyle, so I decided to do it to.

I was pesco-vegetarian (read: phony vegetarian) and even though I ate

a *lot* of tunafish sandwidches (somehow the fact that tuna with mayo

was higher in fat than red meat or chicken escaped me) I still got

meat craving, so I would go through guilty phases where I cheated,

sometime pretty regularly (but I never told anyone).

Anyone else here like that?

The cool thing about being an ex-vegetarian is that even before

reading about nutrition and WAP, is that I tease my veggie friends

about how silly their diet is instead of thinking deep down that

maybe they were right. Now that I'm into nutrition I have to let the

subject drop, because I'd come across as preaching. I made the

mistake of lecturing one friend about soy and she was not pleased to

hear it (fortunately she tries to avoid processed foods). I think

vegetarians enjoy having the upper hand on nutritional matters!