After 27 years of being strictly vegetarian I started with eating meat. Some of my close friends and family are totally shocked because of this shift. I never ate any meat, fish or gelatine. I did use some diary though to balance my diet. But than I fell in love with a butchers daughter. She totally accepted my vegetarian lifestyle but didn't adopt it. We usually enjoyed vegetarian meals together. Only eating by friends or in restaurants my girlfriend did go for meat. She enjoyed it so much that it made me curious. The idea of eating meat myself (together) got slowly into my system. I convinced my girlfriend that I would like to try (at first she could not believe this and was against this idea) and she prepared a chicken fillet. It was almost a spiritual feeling to eat meat, the texture, the taste and I got really excited by the idea that now I was eating something that had lived. Afterwards I tried other sorts of meat like beef. Only in small proportions because of my stomach having trouble with handling meat. At this point we only eat meat in the weekends and in my experience I have more energy after eating meat, less gas and a better relief. I am playing with the idea to give meat a more central position in my diet. Strange idea though, in the past I did not eat meat because I did not want to eat animals. Now I am eating meat and I am totally aware of the fact that once this was a living animal. I love to eat meat that still looks like an animals, like chicken. On the internet I didn’t found anything on this subject, only the other way around: starting with vegetarian food seems to be common sense. I am happy to meet people with the same strange diet background as I have. I hope this group is still alive !
Cheers, Ramon