https://www.nomeatathlete.com/the-moderation-trap/ Plant Based Diet for Athletes Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/the-moderation-trap/#comment-1124 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:13:11 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=1686#comment-1124 I completely agree with you!! Moderation works for me on things like desserts (vegan only) and soy lattes because I have a fraction of a sweet tooth and am not a coffee drinker, so I really only crave both things 2-3 times a month. Giving up meat for me was all or nothing though… if I hadn’t cut it out completely and then educated myself via Earthlings, The Cove and Food, Inc. I’d still be eating chicken drumsticks to this day.

]]> https://www.nomeatathlete.com/the-moderation-trap/#comment-1123 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:17:45 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=1686#comment-1123 I agree with you. I think that doing things like eating healthy, starting to exercise, quitting smoking, etc. largely require an overnight commitment in order for them to work. Moderation doesn’t hold you accountable for any slip-ups, it tells you they’re ok. I love Mark Bittman’s recipes (do you have How to Cook Everything Vegetarian?! It’s a veg food bible!), but his approach does have problems.
I do use moderation in certain areas where it works really well for me…like veganism :] As soon as I tell myself I can’t eat Nutella ever again because its tenth ingredient is skim milk powder, you know what? I’ll probably crave it like crazy. So being “almost vegan” fits me well. And it seems in your experience that moderation in vegetarianism (initially beginning with the more moderate pescetarianism) led you to the right place. I think you keyed in on the difference when you said that moderation in a healthy diet/lifestyle is quite different than in an unhealthy one. If my “slip-ups” include ingesting yogurt every now and then, or choosing to remain oblivious to a smidgen of egg in a restaurant dish, then I’m not doing too bad :]

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