Could it be vegetarians are not food addicts????

[nevertoolate]

I noticed this thread is practically empty, could it be that folks who are vegetarians are not food addicts? maybe meat has something to do with this too or maybe they don't eat sugar?? they are probably not overweight, that's for sure...what does anyone think?
MARILYn IN oHIO
nobody overeats fruit adn veg, right??

[oragold]

I spent years as a vegan and more years as a vegetarian and I was definitely a food addict!

Ora food addict CO

[nevertoolate]

REALLY, HOW?????
Marilyn

[oragold]

There is a lot of junk food that is vegan! Vegan just means not eating animal food. It doesn't say anything about sugar, flour, wheat or excess fat.

Ora food addict CO

[nevertoolate]

Gosh, I'M SO EMBARRASSED!!!! OF COURSE YOU'RE RIGHT, creeping back into my burrow, now.
Marilyn in Ohio

[oragold]

I just wish it were as easy as simply becoming vegan/vegetarian--believe me, I tried!

Ora

[here42da]

It is interesting how I find the (what I think is the unexpected) types of sugar, flour, or wheat, in so many of the foods that we automatically think are clean. Also found in large containers, as when not in the smaller size. So bottom line is Keep checking the ingredients. There are times when the company slips in something that had not been there before. I really get excited when I find a new source of something. Example: Recently found at a Super Dollar ground pork sausage, freshly made on the premesis. Everything clean. Most of the other ground meats in other stores had the added forms of sugar. Truly amazing what the makers, or companies are trying to do to us, by all of the additives, and injected solutions added to our food supply.

[Mrs. G]

I also was vegan for a while (6 months or so)... I was def still a food addict! I could totally binge on turnip or strawberries and I definitely did! Unfortunately food addiction doesn't discriminate. :( However, I will say the addict in me thought... Well, it's vegan- it's not bad for me. I can have MORE! And so the cycle continued!

[Hittingthewall]

Some of the people who struggle the most with food are vegans/vegetarian! I just happen to be one of them. The book Skinny Bitch talks a lot about "fat vegetarians" and what they say is very true. As a vegetarian you could pretty much eat nothing but junk food if you wanted too. In fact most of my friends are vegetarians and several of them are over weight. It is not uncommon for some vegetarians to not eat fruits and vegetarian. Also on the vegan side of it you can also eat a lot of junk food. Lays potato chips, Oreos, and Coke all don't have animal products in them ;) If you Google vegan junk food there is very long list of foods.