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Originally Posted by JCarlson2004  I use to eat Boca Burgers all the time and a lot of other veggie/soy burgers but I had to give them up. I did a ton of research and soy is really bad for you. I can send you some articles if you like but if you google soy, you will see what I mean.
Also, there are veggie burgers out there with NO soy and they taste yummy! I can send you some links if you'd be interested in buying them. I also love raw burgers (like I just had for lunch a spinach salad and a raw sunflower seed/veggie burger. It looks JUST LIKE a real beef burger and tastes sooo similar (it even SMELLS like a burger lololol) but it's soy and gluten free and all veggies and seeds. SOOOO DELICIOUS, you would love it!!!
Without getting into too much detail, I use to have a lot of problems w/ my menstral cycle. Once it stopped all together and I went to a whole bunch of doctors and specialists and it was determind that the soy was doing it. So now I avoid soy and diet soda all together (diet soda is bad for weightloss -- makes you hungry). Again, this is just me. I know a lot of people love diet soda (I personally use to be addicted to Diet Coke, no joke) but I gave it all up and what a huge difference it has made!
If you ever want to talk about this in more detail, just PM me. I've been doing a lot of research on this subject lolol Make sure you are getting enough protein. I eat more raw vegan than I do vegetarian because vegetarians eat dairy and bread and too much bread it just fattening. I still have some bread once in a while and dairy too but only once in a while. I do about 85% vegan and 15% vegetarian because once in a while I want some fresh mozzarella in my salad or I will be in the mood for a bowl of cereal.
For example, if I want a burger on a roll, I will have a whole wheat pita (they are only 70 calories) and put a raw sunflower burger on it w/ lettuce, tomato, sliced pickles and red onion and it's amazing -- better than any other burger I ever had! |
I'd love for you to send me the links. That sucks cause i love soy milk but i don't drink it all the time anyway, i just love the chocolate one. and i didn't know tofu was made of soy beans but i was planning on making stuff with that also but that's okay, as long as i find other things i can make that doesn't have soy im good. i will still drink my milk and yogurt, just not much. It's funny cause the yogurt i got, it's called Whole Soy & Co is vegan but it's the only yogurt i can eat, other yogurts just taste weird to me, i dont like the tangy taste they have and i never have liked reg. milk either so thats what made me try soy and i just loved the taste. But im anemic and someone had told me that soy is good for that, but who knows. about the soda, omg i used to be addicted to it too, still am coping with that. My bf will buy 2 liters of coke, sprite all the time and i would drink them all, i just always had to have a cup in my hand with a bunch of ice cause i LOVE chewing ice, which i also heard is signs of anemia. anyway he would complain that i would drink all the soda and i told him 'you know what, stop buying them! i cannot see soda in the fridge and not drink it' so now if he wants soda he only buys a can for himself and hides it from me lol but for the past week i have successfully stuck to water, the thing i find that helps is if i just keep refilling a water bottle and have it by me all the time. If i don't do that and im thirsty i will drink whatever has sugar in it.
It def. has made a diff. tho, on myself and on my skin, i suffer from acne now and then.
Hopefully with my new diet it will get better. I'm also trying to not overeat on those carbs, i eat a lot of whole grains, the biggest challenge for me is getting enough protein in but so far i've been doing okay with that. That's why i made this thread, so i can get more recipes lol but there's tons of info here, and now i have a list of things to buy thanks to you guys
Thanks for the info on soy, i did google it real quick and saw tons of links, so im going to do my research on it. I read a quick snip about how it can prevent fertility and that's now good.