between a rock and a hard place
I know most of you are lurkers, but can I please get an opinion? Possible staying fat for the rest of my life, but ethically feeling good, or getting slim, but feeling like crap in my soul?
Perhaps you could find a local farmer who raises their own cows and chickens for eggs, etc- and incorporate only their products in your diet so you could feel better about that? This way you wouldn't be supporting factory farming but there are also lots of great protein substitutes for vegans and vegetarians that I'm sure you know about, I personally have found that the Lightlife company has a nice selection of products...but perhaps our philosophies are different. I don't think that the lacto-ovo diets are ethically wrong but that animal suffering is wrong (hence my local farmer interest). Good luck!
Thanks for the advice, Marybeth! If I could find some local farmers who raise their animals in a good way, that would definitely be a choice, but those are far between here - in some ways Sweden is literally in the middle of nowhere. I´m thinking about how I can inhance my protein and nutrient intake on a very low calory diet (which follows a gastric by-pass), in a perfect world the two things should be able to combine.
My husband is a large guy and we've talked about gastric bypass. It scares me too much to "let him" do it. There are too many things that can go wrong, in my opinion. I don't think I could go through with it. I'm one of those people that would rather be fat.
