Help me build a balanced vegetarian diet

[Patriarch]

Please.. I need to gain a few pounds , also. Been off meat for a while , but I feel as if im missing something. What are yall eating out there ? Im gonna try sunshine burgers , heard kale was pretty good , gonna implement more spinach and broccoli. Bought some lentils and long grained brown rice recently , lentils are amazing. Help me build this the perfect nutritional balanced vegetarian diet.
I wanna start from scratch..

Vegetables

Fruits

Beans

Nuts

Drinks

Breads

Supplements

Protein sources

 

[nalej]

Vegetarian or not, you have to eat at least 1 gram of protein per lb of body weight. Since you don't eat meat you have to get most of that from supplements.

 

[Patriarch]

what u suggest?

 

[Willy Waffle]

what u suggest?

red rice and beans
soy (burgers)
Oatmeal
whole grain cereal


this is what i fukks wit to get my protein

 

[semtex]

add peanut butter to your oatmeal mang

 

[Patriarch]

red rice and beans
soy (burgers)
Oatmeal
whole grain cereal


this is what i fukks wit to get my protein

Soy protein is pretty bad for you, I heard.

add peanut butter to your oatmeal mang

Sounds good, i'll try that.

 

[Willy Waffle]

Soy protein is pretty bad for you, I heard.

dude if u eat soy 1-2 a week it aint. but everyday is a totally different thing.

 

[semtex]

yeah don't fukk with soy. next thing u know u will be watching sports to see the guys' butts and eating bonbons.

 

[Majestic Pape]

I'm a vegetarian as well and I've gained probably ten pounds of muscle over the last six months. I just eat A LOT of peanutbutter sandwiches.

 

[Patriarch]

yeah don't fukk with soy. next thing u know u will be watching sports to see the guys' butts and eating bonbons.

I'm a vegetarian as well and I've gained probably ten pounds of muscle over the last six months. I just eat A LOT of peanutbutter sandwiches.

When you "splurge" whats your typical meal ? Pasta ? Veggie pizza ? Give me an overview of the things you normally eat. Its so hard to eat vegetarian , especially when you're somewhat new. Like what you eat for breakfast , snack , dinner etc.

 

[Majestic Pape]

When you "splurge" whats your typical meal ? Pasta ? Veggie pizza ? Give me an overview of the things you normally eat. Its so hard to eat vegetarian , especially when you're somewhat new. Like what you eat for breakfast , snack , dinner etc.

The getting over eating meat part wasn't neccessarily hard, it just took some time. Like I went from eating meat seven days a week to six to five and so on until I was eating it only a couple of times a month, and then around the end of the summer of last year I was pretty much able to cut it out completely. The only times I've eaten meat since have been when I was invited to people's homes and I hadn't told them I was vegan and they already had meals prepared... so instead of being disrespectful I ate the meals, but it really fukked up my stomachs though.

Getting meat out of my diet really cleared my head. I feel a lot more at peace and shyt now; I used to get angry all of the time randomly at people. But I also cut down my alcohol intake a lot too, so I'm sure that had something to do with it, and quit my job, another factor.

I don't really "splurge" at all; but then again, I don't eat a certain amount of meals, I'm pretty much eating all of the time. I snack on celery all day. For example, this is how I ate today.

11:30AM - Wake up (); I ate some pancakes and a banana
1:00PM - I went to work out and to check out the hoes at the pool outside of the gym, drank a couple of beers there after my workout
3:30PM - Back to the crib, I ate maybe three or four peanutbutter sandwiches
5PM - I ate a bowl of grapes and an orange
8PM - I did my second workout of the day, a short one though
9PM - I had a protein shake and ate another banana

Right now, I'm typing this while eating some chips with salsa. And I was pretty much snacking on celery sticks and carrots all throughout the day.

I'm not really a healthy eater as much as I just don't eat meat. I still eat candy like a four-year-old but I'm trying to cut that out, and I still drink too much, which I gotta cut out.


But trust me on this - once you go about a month and a half or two months without eating meat at all, you won't look back, you won't even really think about it. And if you do eat it, you'll probably get sick anyway at that point.


I do miss eating cheesesteaks and chicken wings on game nights, though.

 

[Serious]

^^^^ a lot of red meat is filled with toxins

"wild caught" fish is straight though

 

[nalej]

what u suggest?

I can only tell you the protein supplement I use. It's called Optimum Nutrition Pro Complex. It has both Whey and Casein protein for fast and slower absorbtion. You get 60 grams of protein for every 2 scoops which is pretty good.

 

[Patriarch]

The getting over eating meat part wasn't neccessarily hard, it just took some time. Like I went from eating meat seven days a week to six to five and so on until I was eating it only a couple of times a month, and then around the end of the summer of last year I was pretty much able to cut it out completely. The only times I've eaten meat since have been when I was invited to people's homes and I hadn't told them I was vegan and they already had meals prepared... so instead of being disrespectful I ate the meals, but it really fukked up my stomachs though.

Getting meat out of my diet really cleared my head. I feel a lot more at peace and shyt now; I used to get angry all of the time randomly at people. But I also cut down my alcohol intake a lot too, so I'm sure that had something to do with it, and quit my job, another factor.

I don't really "splurge" at all; but then again, I don't eat a certain amount of meals, I'm pretty much eating all of the time. I snack on celery all day. For example, this is how I ate today.

11:30AM - Wake up (); I ate some pancakes and a banana
1:00PM - I went to work out and to check out the hoes at the pool outside of the gym, drank a couple of beers there after my workout
3:30PM - Back to the crib, I ate maybe three or four peanutbutter sandwiches
5PM - I ate a bowl of grapes and an orange
8PM - I did my second workout of the day, a short one though
9PM - I had a protein shake and ate another banana

Right now, I'm typing this while eating some chips with salsa. And I was pretty much snacking on celery sticks and carrots all throughout the day.

I'm not really a healthy eater as much as I just don't eat meat. I still eat candy like a four-year-old but I'm trying to cut that out, and I still drink too much, which I gotta cut out.


But trust me on this - once you go about a month and a half or two months without eating meat at all, you won't look back, you won't even really think about it. And if you do eat it, you'll probably get sick anyway at that point.


I do miss eating cheesesteaks and chicken wings on game nights, though.

I've been a vegetarian for about 5 months , but I still feel lost. I don't have a routine. I was never much of a meat eater , so I just went cold turkey one day and didn't look back. Celery , Bananas , peanut butter , flax seeds with oat meal are just a few things i'm gonna try to incorporate into my diet. I also wanna try chia seeds. The only thing I miss are those hot dinners.. Maybe ill try vegetarian lasagna , or Cuban black beans and rice. I feel limited as fukk.

I can only tell you the protein supplement I use. It's called Optimum Nutrition Pro Complex. It has both Whey and Casein protein for fast and slower absorbtion. You get 60 grams of protein for every 2 scoops which is pretty good.

I'm afraid of those supplements because of the potential adverse effects on the kidney. I've heard about people taking creatine and fukking their shyt up.

 

[semtex]

I've been a vegetarian for about 5 months , but I still feel lost. I don't have a routine. I was never much of a meat eater , so I just went cold turkey one day and didn't look back. Celery , Bananas , peanut butter , flax seeds with oat meal are just a few things i'm gonna try to incorporate into my diet. I also wanna try chia seeds. The only thing I miss are those hot dinners.. Maybe ill try vegetarian lasagna , or Cuban black beans and rice. I feel limited as fukk.



I'm afraid of those supplements because of the potential adverse effects on the kidney. I've heard about people taking creatine and fukking their shyt up.

They either took insane amounts of creatine and/or had preexisting kidney probs