Having difficulty putting forward your first step in attempting vegetarian diets or lifestyle? Try becoming a weekday vegetarian first!
TED Talks: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian by Graham Hill
Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com, a leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. A great resource website for green lovers to discover up to date news, products and ideas. Weekday Veg program is one of them!
At least for one of us, before turning into a 'full-time' vegetarian, Barney vividly remembered how he used to struggle giving up his carnivorous instinct despite fully aware of the many benefits that vegetarianism would offer him and the world. Barney would appear ready to try out vegetarian diet, but only to be found peppering his diet with various meat products here and there in his meals. The prospect of meatless diets that would deprive his taste buds actually intimidated him (no more tasty cheeseburgers, juicy steak, tender fried chicken, etc.).
Lack of determination and perseverance, primarily driven by the incomplete understanding of vegetarianism and the reluctance to forgo an already established, familiar diets, initially prevented Barney's from attempting a vegetarian lifestyle. At this early stage, he had the 'all or none' mindset of being a full vegetarian or not.
But the flexible Barney eventually found a way to gradually materialize his ideal in reality by carrying out a stepwise adoption of vegetarian diet plan. He would start with being vegetarian for 1 day per week, before stepping it up daily to be a weekly, monthly and finally a committed vegetarian! Just like Graham Hill in this TED talk video, Barney initially embraced the weekday vegetarian concept and succeeded in becoming a full vegetarian.
Anyway, the gist of this post is:
Some vegetarian diet is better than no vegetarian diet!
Hope this article would encourage you to make your first step towards a healthier lifestyle! =D
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