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Do you have any healthy cookbooks you can recommend? Ones that make vegetarian food not taste like shit?
Also, I fucking NEED beer and wine in my life. But Beer is just barley malt, hops, and yeast...so that shit should be good to go.
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I'll throw my hat into the ring on this.
My weight's fluctuated a lot in the last 6 years, so I feel I've got some experience on what will and won't work long-term for weight loss.
First of all, I tried the drug diet. Don't do that. That's lesson 1.
Secondly, you'll have a hard time cutting weight if you love wine and beer. I too, love beer and wine. Giving that shit up (on a regular basis) was one of the hardest things I've done in recent years.
The problem with alcohol and exercise, is alcohol essentially transfers entirely to bad fat in the body; and when you go to work out, the alcohol is the first thing the body tries to work off. So you're not even really making progress if you drink frequently. I'm not sure what the proper ratio or whatever is on what will and won't impede progress, though.
I just know it will be ridiculously harder on you to cut weight/build muscle if you're chugging back beers often. And it's alcohol in general, it's not JUST beer or wine. Alcohol as a whole impedes cutting weight/building muscle.
I also eat a lot of food sans-meat. I don't like calling it vegetarian, because it's not. It's just meat-less. Hell, Fruity Pebbles can probably be vegetarian.
Anyways, my advice on how to make vegetarian things taste good if you have no cookbook is to just be creative, add
lots spices. Vegetarian food tends to be inherently bland, unless it's Indian cooking. Cooking isn't precise or anything like that, it's all preference. I'd say just start trying some shit out. See what works for you.
Stay away from candy, chocolate, sugars, pops. Normal things like that. You probably shouldn't eat too much potatoes/breads/dairy. I'm not saying at all, just don't have 6 sandwiches a day. Everything's cool in moderation.
And also, eat
frequently. That's one of the best things I've noticed you can do when you want to cut weight. Eat smaller portions [of things like a small yogurt, some fruit, granola bar etc] more often. Don't have 'meals', just eat when you're hungry. Have healthy snacks often. Keep your metabolism working for you, not against you.