GAPS Week Three - feeling bad about eating meat - any vegetarians here?

I like how this sensibility FEELS on my body - but for some reason my ethical sense is having a hard time with eating meat. I was mostly vegetarian for 25 years and it has been a big shift for me to integrate the bone broth and the stewed chicken, beef, turkey and such. I think if I could raise the animals myself with awareness and harvest them with gratitude I might feel differently. I try thanking my meals - which makes me feel worse for the animals. I feel the same way about fish.

Does anyone in this community eat a largely plant based diet? Which protocol do you use?

I think I need to go back to NOT eating meat.

I want to feel well in my inner spaces and this somehow goes against what makes me happy.

In the interim - I think the spirochetes and co-infections are asking me to look deeper into WHY I have an issue with eating meat/fish. Where that came from. Such great teachers these ancient bacterial forms. How can I get my body to start eating THEM?

I think plant based diets are healthy for you. But almost every naturopath I have been to thinks eating meat and fish is necessary right now. Right now you are doing what your body needs. The crisis you are feeling are "toxic lyme thoughts". Nothing is life is perfect we just do the best we know at the time, follow the best science and keep moving forward. You are doing the right thing for yourself at the moment.
So keep up the good work. You are honouring your wellbeing at every level by making healthy choices. Draw a line now between keeping your thought life in a good place and not putting energy into feeling 'guilty' about a choice you have to accept right now.
I would happily be vegetarian but I am find grains and pulses hard to digest. My naturopath insists meat is a more digestable protein. And I know that to be true because that is what my body is telling me. So I eat what I have to eat for the sake of my health. One day I believe I can make other choices but not today. One day you will be able to go back to a diet you want for yourself.

This helps sooooo much! THANK Y O U ALL!!!!

I think ArtAngel is absolutely right - you must honor yourself right now and in so doing, your chi will flow more smoothly from brain to soles of your feet. Who is to say that your thoughts and choices will not change in the future? They might and you will be faced with the exact same dilemma.... like all of us we have to discover, trust our own choices and follow through with our own truths. In so doing, we will feel a lot more balanced and happier living in our temple.

I agree that you must do what's right for you. Isn't that what healing from these infections is all about?

While I do choose to eat meats, when I am capable of it, I choose to raise my own for many reasons, but I do agree that for those that it really bothers, for whatever reasons, it may be best to avoid it - if you can get enough protein and other nutrition from other sources. Be sure that you are getting all the nutrition your body needs, no matter what form of diet you choose.

I don't think anyone in this thread said meat is the only way to get protein, Artermix. Unless I missed something.

Ahhh, Okay!! I agree. There are other sources, just be sure that they are good healthy choices and provide your body with all it needs! As I said, I still choose to eat meat most days (although not daily), and I do have concerns about things like soy (estrogen dominance for one thing), but know that many can safely follow a vegetarian diet and still heal.

It's simply a personal choice for each of us.