My next personal case study is going to be based on a video I watched about being a vegetarian 5 days a week.

I’ve always wanted to try out eating vegetarian or vegan so when I saw this video I thought that this looked like a great way to ease into it.

I’ve decided as of this weekend (24/07/2010) I will be starting a 4 week trial of eating vegetarian during the week days and normal on the weekend. I will be eating lacto-ovo vegetarian which means I can still eat dairy and eggs so the change should be fairly small.

To ensure that I can get an accurate idea of how this change in diet will effect me I will be stopping Eat Stop Eat for the duration of the 4 weeks. If I hadn’t just come back from holiday where I wasn’t practicing Eat Stop Eat then I would definitely keep it going. However, seeing as I’m just starting back up again I’ve decided to stop for now.

Now, you might be asking ‘Why am I doing this?‘

Like I said already, I’ve been wanting to try being a vegetarian for some time. This is because I’ve heard reports online and from friends of increased levels of energy from eating vegetarian and vegan.

Secondly, our meat processing industry is pretty horrific in terms of cruelty to animals. By eating vegetarian 5 days a week I reduce my meat consumption by 71%. This will also mean though that I risk consuming too little protein, iron and other minerals found in meat.

I will be spending the next few days doing a little food research to ensure I do not get any deficiencies during my 4 week trial. I will be hitting up the Pro at Cooking website to try out some of their vegetarian recipes, especially Dave’s vegetarian pizza recipe.

Back to why I’m doing this… Thirdly, not eating all that meat also reduces my carbon footprint which is something we all need to think about.

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