Hi Tarra and welcome to the veggie side! What a wonderful story, I love reading about what made other veggies give up meat. And you had awesome side effects and you sound really enthusiastic about your new lifestyle! Great to have you here 
Becoming vegetarian has changed my life
Hi everybody!
My name is Tarra. I have been a vet tech for 7 years now and have been a vegetarian for 5 months and I LOVE it! I used to be a huge meat eater...chicken at every meal! I thought that it was the thing that you needed to do to eat as much protein as you could if you were to build muscle. I play tons of sports and workout, so I was afraid to have no energy.
My friend watched Forks over Knives and challenged my girlfriend and I to a month of being Vegan. We of course accepted the challenge...I never back down from a challenge! It was hard for the first week, but after that I started noticing that I had much more energy! I couldn't believe it! I was all of a sudden getting better running times, becoming faster in hockey, I was starting to loose weight AND....gain muscle!
Since that month, we have decided to become vegetarians. I love eggs! I don't eat them as often as I did before, and we now get our eggs from my friend who challenged us. He has a small hobby farm. This way I know that the chickens were not abused in any way. Being a vet tech and saving animals every day, just didn't make sense to me why I would eat meat.
I do what I can now to help other people make better food choices. Not only to not eat meat, but to stay away from processed foods and eat whole foods.
I look forward to chatting with everybody on the forum. I looked around and so many great convos!!
My name is Tarra. I have been a vet tech for 7 years now and have been a vegetarian for 5 months and I LOVE it!
I used to be a huge meat eater...chicken at every meal! I thought that it was the thing that you needed to do to eat as much protein as you could if you were to build muscle. I play tons of sports and workout, so I was afraid to have no energy.My friend watched Forks over Knives and challenged my girlfriend and I to a month of being Vegan. We of course accepted the challenge...I never back down from a challenge! It was hard for the first week, but after that I started noticing that I had much more energy! I couldn't believe it! I was all of a sudden getting better running times, becoming faster in hockey, I was starting to loose weight AND....gain muscle!
Since that month, we have decided to become vegetarians. I love eggs! I don't eat them as often as I did before, and we now get our eggs from my friend who challenged us. He has a small hobby farm. This way I know that the chickens were not abused in any way. Being a vet tech and saving animals every day, just didn't make sense to me why I would eat meat.
I do what I can now to help other people make better food choices. Not only to not eat meat, but to stay away from processed foods and eat whole foods.
I look forward to chatting with everybody on the forum. I looked around and so many great convos!!
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