Don’t go cold turkey. This is too much of a shock to your system. Slowly withdraw meat. Move to a healthier life style where you deal with the nutritional value of foods and stop stuffing your face with the most convenient junk you can find.

Make a list of everything you ate in a normal week. Many people eat meat twice a day, some three times, as if a meal has to have some dead animal in it. Begin by making one of these meals meatless. That’s all.

Instead of bacon and eggs, or a cheese burger, have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, or a salad for lunch. Do this consciously, make a plan.

Search out meatless recipes and try them. Know that many ’substitutes’ need some effort to taste good, just like cheap mince needs some effort to be palatable.

While you are still eating meat, find substitutes; vege burgers instead of a hamburter, vege sausage instead of pork, etc. Understand that a salad can be a meal. After two weeks of cutting meat from one meat meal each day, make the decision to only eat meat or meat products once a day.

Treat fish as a vegetable for now as it is easy to substitute fish for meat and to create a lot of fish meals. Further, eat more vegetables. With your meat meal have a lot of vegetables so that the meat is not longer the major star of the plate.

Try out your vegetarian recipes, especially those which are totally different, not just vege balls instead of meat balls as well as substituting vege mince where meat is required, for instance in a lasagna or a stuffed pepper.

Vegemince can taste really great if you rehydrate it with flavored hot water. If you boil your broccoli and add seasoning to the water, that water, (along with cut up broccoli stems) is a great way to rehydrate vege mince.

After two weeks in which you have experimented with non meat meals, you are ready to take a step up. Begin with a “wash out“, this to remove toxins from your system. You spend the day in the little room, eating nothing, drinking fruit juice and lots of water. On the following day, eat raw foods and cereals, nothing heavy, nothing with meat in it.

On the third day you are ready to go every other day without meat. You are still eating fish and treating it as a vegetable. After two weeks of every other day eating meat, have another wash out, followed by a day of light food, and go to one meat meal every two days. Meat/no meat/no meat/meat/. Remember, it is just one meal of meat every two days.

Read up on nutrition, learn that a perfect food is spinach cooked with tomatoes. Learn that broccoli has many necessary and protective nutrients. Constantly try new vegetarian recipes. Go for a month eating meat no more than three times a week.

Don’t rush this, don’t say you’re ready to get meat out of your system. Follow the plan. One month, meat no more than three times a week. Eggs qualify as meat, so don’t cheat. After the month of meat three times a week, cut all pork and beef out of your diet. You will still eat chicken and other meat, but not pork and beef.

Have another wash out, following the same rules of fruit juices and water, followed by a day of grains and fruit. Your next month is to have meat twice a week. Separate it with three days of no meat.

Make sure you are getting a balanced diet. Check nutrition books, and don’t think that kicking the steak off your plate and eating the peas and carrots and potato are enough. Understand the value of nuts and fruits. Use tofu and gluten. Eat at vegetarian restaurants.

At the end of this month, another wash out, and one meat meal a week.

Take your time. You are slowly removing meat from your diet. Don’t rush and fail. At the end of six months, having eaten only one meat meal per week for the past two months you are ready to cut out meat entirely, save for fish. Leave fish in your diet for the next six months. This is just in case you or your body has not as yet adapted to a meatless diet. Begin this next six month session with another wash out, removing more meat from your system.

You may, at the end of the year, find that you want to keep fish to two meals a month, however, you must not go back to meat. By weaning your system from meat, any consumption might cause constipation. One of the things about a vegetarian diet is that you don’t have any problem going to the bathroom.

By taking things slowly, trying a lot of new dishes which are not “make believe meat” or “substitutes” but meals on their own, while still eating meat you will not feel “deprived”. By cleansing your system periodically, you will be able to relax into vegetarianism without failure.

You will lose weight, your complexion will glow, your cholesterol will drop way down, you will have no problem going to the bathroom, and your sweat will not smell very much at all.