I will try to make this short and sweet as possible. Basically I have started converting over to vegetarian to loose more weight I am at 196 and 6 foot tall. What I wanted to know is I know anything is possible but has anyone here gone through Recruit Training vegetarian and if they had any problems with getting the necessary proteins and energy and things of that nature to make it through Recruit Training. I searcher Vegetarian in the find menu but came up with nothing. Thanks for any help.
Originally posted by 14769287: Basically I have started converting over to vegetarian to loose more weight I am at 196 and 6 foot tall. The max weight for your height is 203, why are you trying to diet if you are already under the weight. First off you will sweat off at least a couple more pounds off 196. Not to mention vegetarian or meat diets have nothing to do with losing weight, you can be a fatass with any diet if you don't burn off the calories.
What I wanted to know is I know anything is possible but has anyone here gone through Recruit Training vegetarian and if they had any problems with getting the necessary proteins and energy and things of that nature to make it through Recruit Training. MCRD is not the place to be trying out a new diet. If you are only adopting this to lose weight, instead of some serious ideological-vegetarianism reasons, it's only going to take a few days of hunger pangs to stuff a meatball or hotdog into your mouth.
I searcher Vegetarian in the find menu but came up with nothing. Thanks for any help. If you are dead set on vegetarian then be prepared to subsist on apples, bread, salad, and Jello for three months.
I realize Recruit Training is not the place to start a new diet I perfectly understand that I am just wanting to make sure that I am use to it by time I ship I do realize that is a while being I ship in August.
Well I wouldn't want to be the one missing out on half of every meal but if you are dead set on doing it, nobody will force you to eat meat. You get so little time to eat that nobody will pay attention to your food habits in any event.
My reply is a little off topic, but similar. My Son is a very particular eater, particular is actually an understatement. He participates in JROTC in High School and they went to Little Creek last summer. We were a little concerned for him because of his eating habits. The Sgts from EWTG Lant had them so busy during the day, that he really didnt care what was in the chow hall. He was hungry.
I know that this is not similar to Boot Camp in the least, but if you are burning a lot of calories during the day, you will be hungry. Remember, Marine Corps cooks nowadays have to worry about meal planning and nutrition also. So you will be eating healthy, you tongue just wont taste it because it will be going down so fast.
I have been a vegan for several years for ethical reasons. My recruiter said there will be things I can eat at Boot Camp like rice and peanut butter. I was wondering what a typical day's meals would include. Are fruits and vegetables usually available? Thanks
And if the Guide happens to be a major brown-noser (like ours was), he'll try to eat as fast as possible in order to make himself look good and screw the rest of the platoon.
I have been a vegan for several years for ethical reasons. My recruiter said there will be things I can eat at Boot Camp like rice and peanut butter. I was wondering what a typical day's meals would include. Are fruits and vegetables usually available? Thanks
Never been a vegetarian or vegan, but I would never eat that way in BootCamp. You need food and, unless times have changed, you get what they put on your plate. Don't be surprised if you become a meat eater again. It is going to be very difficult.
How are you going to potentially kill another human if you are a vegan? Isn't there some moral code about that too. How is it unethical to eat any animals meat, yet you can kill humans? Help me understand this?
thanks for the help. It is nice to get light hearted responses and honest questions as opposed to jeering. Sgt Shaw I realize people often associate veganism with pacifism but the two do not need go together in my book. I am no pacifist. The way I look at it a cow will never be part of a terrorist organization. The day it is I will shoot the cow. I see no need to do harm to something benign but killing an evil person is another story and is neccessary at times. As far as leather boots and eating things that aren't 100% vegan, I can live with that. I believe values have a hierarchy and becoming a Marine relates to the value I hold for human life which I place above my value for animal life. But I will certainly not be eating meat at Boot. Veganism/vegetarianism is not a fad for me it is an ingrained lifestyle. It would probably make me very ill anyways. Thanks for the responses and thanks for your service.
Keep in mind that at bootcamp chowline there is a little step we do... Side-step...Together... Side-step...Together...etc. till the end of the line.
It is like a chowline shuffle. Your plate is held out in front of you and they slop "everything" on your plate as you shuffle down the line. You WILL take everything they put on your plate. No pickin' and a chosin'. If you chose not to eat it all, that is up to you, but you will receive it ALL.
Well I wouldn't want to be the one missing out on half of every meal but if you are dead set on doing it, nobody will force you to eat meat. You get so little time to eat that nobody will pay attention to your food habits in any event.
But they will notice any small differences. If you want to attract the DIs attention, do something different than everyone else.
About the only diet available is for the Fat Body recruits. The DI's watch their plates carefully and if they deviate from what the DI told them to eat in order to lose their extra weight, they will here about it.
On the other hand, they will notice if ANYBODY else changes their eating habits. They look at your plate as you leave the chowline. You DO NOT want to stand out like that.
All I know people who are vegetarians in bootcamp are the ones that have the hardest time doing pulls ups and other exercises that require upper body strenght.
You need all the nutrients in your body in order to function properly and combat the recruit crud!!!
Well as far as upper body strength goes I am a girl so won't be doing pullups but I am currently able to do about a 50 second hang. That may not be incredibly impressive but it beat out most of the other female poolees in my office I noticed. I also rarely get sick. If my values cause me to stand out so be it. I am willing to put up with whatever I need to graduate Boot. I am committed. And as I mentioned before I will not be insanely worried about eating non vegan things but I will not eat meat. But thank you for the concern and advice.
I see no need to do harm to something benign but killing an evil person is another story and is neccessary at times. As far as leather boots and eating things that aren't 100% vegan, I can live with that. I believe values have a hierarchy and becoming a Marine relates to the value I hold for human life which I place above my value for animal life. But I will certainly not be eating meat at Boot. Veganism/vegetarianism is not a fad for me it is an ingrained lifestyle. It would probably make me very ill anyways. Thanks for the responses and thanks for your service.
