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Originally Posted by jak
I've had a Fitbit since Sept and since then its only been off my wrist when I have a shower and when I'm charging it. I like the sleep tracker - though it tells me I never get enough.
I've found myself walking more since I got it, so that I'll get my 10,000 steps a day. I don't really need to lose weight but I want to be fitter and build muscle... so I really need to start doing weights of some kind too (at home - you will NEVER find me in a gym!).
I usually eat fairly healthy food but I'm keen to try more vegetarian options. I don't think I'd ever give up meat altogether - I have chronic low iron and my doctor recommends I eat some red meat. Still, I'd like to know how to get enough iron from a vegetarian diet, without taking supplements if possible.
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Believe it or not, iron deficiency anemia is not any more prevalent in vegetarians than it is in meat eaters. You need vitamin C to absorb iron maximally so being a vegetarian I probably consume more vitamin C than the average meat eater, thus the iron I get from foods such as spinach and beans is better absorbed than iron from a steak with potatoes. You would have to eat more than 1700 calories of sirloin steak to get the same amount of iron as found in 100 calories of spinach. Also a lot of vegetables are high in iron AND vitamin C (broccoli and bok choy) so just eating one of these by itself has much more absorbable iron than meat. Top ways to get iron from non-meat sources are spinach and other greens like chard, broccoli, bok choy, lentils, soy beans, any other kind of bean (kidney, black, pinto, white, garbanzo, etc.)
