Any point in going veggie for a week?

dinneenp

Hi,
Not going to do a detox cos a lot of people say your body is your natural detox.
Also heard that if you cut out meat and eat healthly for X days it's very good for you.
That the body always has X (5?) amount of meals/meat backed up.
So if I go veggie & eat well for X amount of days is there a big benefit for me?
Cheers,
pa.

brianthebard

your body doesn't store or 'back up' meat...Going veggie for a week might be an interesting experiment for someone if they want to see how it affects their energy or how it feels to get more veg into their diets. It could also mean getting chips and onion rings instead of a quarter pounder from the chipper, so its really just what you make of it.

EileenG

It's just as easy to be backed up on vegetarian food as on meat. It's all about the quality of what you eat, and the health of your digestive system.

Go veggie if you want a change.

El_Dangeroso

I really don't think doing it for a week will really do anything either way. Like imagine you ate nothing but jelly beans for a week, you'd probably survive with no permanent damage but it goes the other way too, a week of 'being good' won't negate years of damage.

Re: going veggie, if that means completely cutting out junk (and those horrible meat substitutes are junk too, no matter how they market their products) then it's going to be a positive step.

That's why people who do zero carb and raw vegan diets always feel fantastic when they go on them even though they are pretty much polar opposites on the dietary scale. The effects are not because of what they're eating, but because of what they have cut out (basically processed food).

Sapsorrow

Are you constipated? If not food doesn't get 'backed up' and there's no point in going veggie, even if you were constipated you don't ave to go veggie just eat more veg with your meat and drink plenty of water and maybe consider using a fibre supplement for a while like psyllium husks for a while.