I’ve never met a fat vegetarian.....
Yeah, without sufficient protein in your diet, junk food tends to cause very unpleasant feelings; sugar can become an amazingly strong depressant, for instance. And if you can stick to a healthy vegetarian diet, you have to be in such tight control of your food intake that lapses in self-control are almost impossible. It’s like saying, “I’ve never heard someone who was chaste (including avoiding masturbation) who had a porn addiction,” and using that rationale to counsel against marriage!
That said, I’ve known a lot of very stupid vegetarians with a lot of unhealthy diets. Half the women at both colleges I went to (one state, one private) were vegetarians whose diets consisted primarily of beer and lettuce. A protein-deprived diet causes stupidity (the brain needs protein), and a dullness of sense, including appetite. With that diet, a candy bar would have the effect of tranquilizers and probably induce nausea as well.
OTOH, one of my best friends is a vegetarian Christian who runs about 6 miles a day, even up to 78 miles (yes, he’s completed TRIPLE marathons!) and is the smartest person I know. But he has to work hard at eating:
People falsely believe that since vegetarian animals can get protein from plant matter, plant matter must have protein for human diets. Most does not. Herbivores can inter-convert amino acids which humans can’t inter-convert. As such, any plant protein which doesn’t have all the amino acids essential to humans gets treated as carbohydrates by the human body. Only by carefully combining vegetarian foods can human beings derive any protein from them. (There are a handful of vegetarian foods which have protein useful to humans: Semolina wheat, nuts, certain beans, etc.)
I know I wouldn’t be able to follow it...I crave meat too much....but I know my one friend who is really strict eats her owns chickens eggs, eats peanuts,peanut butter and tofu for protein. She is always on the go and is very skinny.