Vegetarian (no meat or seafood for me) for 7 years and counting! Yep it's super easy for me to get 5-10 servings of fruits and veggies each day.

No I'm an omnivore. For some reason the term 'flexitarian' really bothers me. It's like someone is trying to make themselves feel special. You either eat meat or you don't, and those who do shouldn't try to create a special group for themselves.

Yup! I tell my friends I'm a "vegetarian 5 days a week".

I am a semi-vegetarian; I eat chicken, sometimes eggs and maybe twice a month meat. I don't like red meat however sometimes I have to for some extra iron.

As one who has successfully been a vegetarian for 15 years, this term bothers me, though not as much as those who call themselves vegetarian then grab a slice of ham. If you eat vegetables and meat, at any time, I think you're an omnivore. I do applaud people taking care of themselves and the animals by eating less meat, but I guess I'm just done with bizarre labels.

I don't really dig the label, but I guess I fit more into that category. I eat meat when I feel like it, but often find that my meals don't contain any meat at all. I do love my steaks though! I eat meat maybe once a week, but not on purpose. It just goes along with my habits of eating better, and squeezing less calories into more food.

i agree with dru and pinkunicorn. as a vegan, i find it pretty frustrating and even offensive when people try to muddy up definitions by labeling themselves as things like "flexitarians." if you only eat plants, you are a herbivore. if you eat plants and meat, you are an omnivore, no matter if you eat meat at every meal or once a week. i think the term "flexitarian" is degrading to the meaning of vegetarianism and veganism. not only is it a confusnig label, but it seems completely unnecessary.

I don't like the label.

I don't know how I feel about "flexitarian". If you eat meat, you eat meat. I personally do not eat pork or beef, and probably 80% of my meals are vegetarian, but my selective diet restrictions doesn't mean I'm any more or less an omnivore than someone who eats meat every day.

I fit the label, although I call myself a semi-vegetarian. Vegetarian because I just don't like the taste of meat (seafood's another story). But semi because I eat with friends and family (family-style) and I don't want anyone to special order anything for me. I eat meat 1-2 times/week. The new label is just kinda weird.

I probably fit the label more than not, but I'm not too crazy about the term. Vegetarian is vegetarian, vegan is vegan, does it need to be any more complicated? *shrug*

I agree with PinkUnicorn. You're either a vegetarian, or you're not. Just because I might happen to go a couple of days without meat, doesn't mean that I'm going to start labeling myself with a new category.

I am trying to become a pescan vegetarian. I really prefer fruits and vegetables but I'm not going to go crazy and stop eating fish or drinking milk. Not that that's crazy but for me it would be.

Wow, I think I do fit in this category!

The term sounds silly, but my friends all call me a vegetarian, which I'm not. I was an ovo-lacto vegetarian for years and now I don't keep or prepare any meat at home, but I will have some poultry at restaurants occasionally and at holidays. I have way too much respect for real vegetarians to call myself one.

I'm vegan, so the term flexitarian seems a little funny to me. Why not just omnivore? It seems to imply that everyone else (the other omnivores and veg*ns) aren't flexible. I love it when people reduce their consumption of factory farms to whatever they're comfortable with, but I'm not really a fan of the term--just say you're doing what you can! That's simple and descriptive.

I fit into the category of pescetarian-- I eat seafood, but not poultry, red meat or pork. Even then, it's only a few times a week. No one seems to know that the category exists though so I guess it doesn't matter.

Before I got pregnant again, I was in the process of becoming vegan. I tried for about a month after, but I was always dizzy and hungry. i decided that being pregnant is a horrible time to try to change my diet so much, so now i eat more like this new term (only because i have to put on more weight, otherwise i'd just be vegetarian). it sounds stupid to say im a vegetarian and then eat chicken, so this fits a lot better! however, i am excited to be a vegan again after, meat and dairy still gross me out after reading all the stories and seeing pictures of it. so, at least i feel bad for the animal when im eating it. if that makes it any better.

I've been a vegetarian for a little over a month, and it's hard! It's a little offensive to me that some people can eat steak if they want and then say they're "sort of vegetarian." You either are or you aren't, and I'm proud to say I am, even though it's hard to fight off the burger cravings sometimes!

As a vegetarian of 8 years I find this term offensive. A real vegetarian never eats meat or fish. Alot of ppl say they are vegetarian but eat a burger when they are drunk. Being a vegetarian is a lifestyle and not a trend.

I have to agree with everyone here. I was a vegeterian for years, and it drove me crazy how people wanted to fit into the category, but not walk the walk. I would hear people saying they were vegetarian while they were eating sushi. Vegetarianism is an entire lifestyle, not a once in awhile type of thing. I no eat lean protein, and would never call myself any type of vegetarian, I know how offensive it is.

Just to add - although I do fit into this category, I'm not crazy about the term. I will always be a meat eater (I did try to go veg a while back and it's just not for me) and so would never try to say that I'm only sort-of a veg or anything like that. I aplaud those who can go veg and vegan though.

Uh, you're vegetarian/vegan, or you're not. I've been veg for 22 years (strict vegan for 5 of those). It kills me when I mention I'm a veg and someone asks do you eat chicken or seafood. NO!! Duh. I'm all for folks eating less meat, but sorry, no special name.

I don't think labels matter, really, but how you live your life. I've gone for long periods not eating red meat, not eating any meat, not eating meat, eggs, or milk, and any other combination you can think of. Why do we have to make the word "Vegetarian" some righteous term that you must be worthy of earning the right to use? We're all just trying to do our best for ourselves and the world around us, and that's what's important.

Most people assume that I'm a vegetarian, although I'm not! I eat meat once or twice a month (usually only super lean game meat or turkey though) and I eat tons of seafood, and a little bit of eggs and dairy, although generally only once or twice per week. I hate most red meat, and I feel disgusting if I eat anything that isn't free-range or wild. Luckily I'm a spoiled brat, and my dad is both a commercial fisherman in Alaska, as well as a game hunter, so I get packages of moose, deer, salmon, and halibut fairly often.

So, I'm not a vegetarian... I just don't really eat meat!

No, you're either a vegetarian or not- you either eat meat or you don't. Many people think I am one bcause i dun eat chicken, beef etc but I do eat shrimps n crabs so I don't think I am. I'm just someone who likes farm animals alot

Nah.. I'm too practical to be a vegetarian. i think lean meat is one of the best things to incorporate in a diet

In terms of "meat," I don't eat it. I eat poultry, but only chicken & turkey (pheasant=ew!).

My inlaws call me a vegetarian, even though I'm not. I guess it's because I don't eat a lot of meat. I eat meat probably 3 times a week and the rest of the time, I eat eggs and dairy. I wouldn't call myself "flexitarian" because isn't that what EVERYONE is?? No one eats all meat all the time. I think that's why they call it being an "omnivore", hello.

The labeling thing drives me crazy because everyone sounds so superior and pretentious and that's annoying. And I know I'm generalizing here, so no stones please, but damn. I eat they way I eat and don't force my views on people. I have lots of opinions about what goes into my body and how I want to take care of myself, but just because someone doesn't agree with me that something is bad for them doesn't mean that I think I'm better than them. It's a choice. If a person is uninformed, that's one thing. But otherwise, let people eat what they want and stop labeling everything.

heck no, 100% veg

The labeling seems strange but I understand it. I know alot of people, including me, who are vegetarians for health reason I do not think it degrades anything. Eating excessive amounts of meat leads to all sorts of health problems and it is a good thing to decrease the intake for personal and enviromental health. If people feel the need to label themselves then why not. To each their own I say.

i HATE eating meat. I was vegetarian for 6 years, vegan for almost 2 years, but since getting married, my husband was a body builder and had to have a lot of protein. I ended up giving in because i know i was depriving my body of necessary nutrients that i wasn't getting.. so now i eat meat maybe a few times a week only for health reasons, but if it were up to me, i would still be vegetarian.

whenever we get meat from the store, like ground beef, i make him separate it into bags and freeze it because i can't touch raw bloody uncooked meat. It grosses me out.

i'm a freakin baby

jennybop-
as a vegan, it makes me sad to think that eliminating meat from your deit is something you want to do but feel like you can't. you can get plenty of protein from any sort of veg*n diet. whole grains, tofu, tempeh, seitan, beans, nuts seeds, and dairy or eggs if you're into that, all provide plenty of protein! as long as you are eating a balanced diet, you aren't missing out on anything! and even if you feel like you are a little low on a certain vitamin or mineral (vitamin b12 for example?) you could always take a supplement. you don't need meat to be healthy! you should do some research online about vegan bodybuilders; there are a lot of them, not to mention a lot of other hardcore athletes that are also vegan.
you said if it were up to you that you'd still be vegetarian - it IS up to you! don't let such a personal and important decision like eating meat be made for you by someone else. i understand you are trying to respect the information your husband has provided you and i'm not trying to knock him. if he feels like he needs meat in order to keep his weight training performance up to par, that's cool. but if you are grossed out by meat and don't want to eat it, don't feel like you need to! as long as you plan your diet healthfully and carefully, you're better off without it!

Lonewolf, I totally agree, I couldn't have written it better

I'm sorry, but this is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. You can't be a mostly vegetarian anymore than you can be mostly Caucasian or mostly a certain religion -- it's not to pick and choose. I understand individuals who call themselves vegetarians but still eat fish, since growing up in a Kosher household, fish is not considered to be meat (though I definitely respect individuals who don't consider these people to be vegetarians), but the second you eat chicken or beef or any other land animal, no matter how infrequently, you are, by definition, no longer a vegetarian, and a meat eating vegetarian is about as much of a vegetarian as a Jew for Jesus.

It seems like there should be a label for this kind of eater. I'm not crazy about "flexitarian," but I'm baffled by those who seem insulted by people who want a term for a low-meat diet. I consciously try to avoid meat since I know doing so is good for me, good for the environment, and good for animals. I've progressively cut down over the years, and since I keep a food diary, I know I regularly go weeks without it. To say there's no difference between me and someone who chows down on steak every night seems wrong, like saying someone who eats a cookie isn't really on a diet.

I don't call myself a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian. If asked, I say I eat a low-meat diet. I don't see why vegetarians or vegans would find that so horrible.

Keep in mind that this word was made up by one person. She was probably looking to give the perception of her being a health concious person in hopes of driving business.
Silly term, but whenever someone can find a creative way to STOP eating meat, I'm all for it.
The less cunsumption of meat & meat products, and the less spending on factory farms...THE BETTER!!!

Ive been vegetarian since I was 15 years. I am healthy, happy, and so is my healthy vegetarian daughter.
You either eat meat (***which DOES include poultry and fish...come on now***) or you dont.

I'm happy there is a new term for this. My parents used to say I was born a vegeterian because I hardly eat any meat. but I'm not totally vegetarian, and I like to eat meat once in a while, so this suites perfect for me.

I've tried going off meat completely a while back, but my body demanded it, and I started fainting a lot, so I don't think it completely health, for me, to be vegetarian. The flexitarian way of living is right for me.

Wow! I didn't know that there was a name for it so I guess I am in the "Flexitarian" category cause I only eat meat 2 to 3 times a week, my mother and sister make fun of me casue i use Vegetarian and I eat meat here and there.

The term is omnivore. It doesn't matter how often you eat meat. I eat mostly seafood and have red meat or poltury once a week - maybe. But it's not something new. People have been eating like this since forever because meat used to be something that was only had of special occasions.

i think i am one, most of the days in a week i only eat fruits and vegs, usually during weekends i let myself eat anything i want, but i cut back food with hi-cals and meat on weekdays

dejavu cuz i was just thinkin about what to call myself since i just started dieting again and my meals consist of greens...greens....greens...a lil bit of meat...then more greens. so i guess im a flexitarian =)

I find all these labels ridiculous. Why must people come up with a fancy name for everything? It's quite simply, vegetarian, you don't eat meat, omnivore, you eat meat and vegies. Simple.

I love it! I was a vegetarian for 5 years but had to give it up since my health deteriorated (I had virtually no immune system in the end, had a stomach flue five times the last years plus bouts of flue every month or so). I know it was due to my laziness when it came to eating right and the student budget I was on, but I dropped the no-meat-stance and felt great.

I've never been a huge meat fan, however, so when I moved in with my bf we decided we would try to eat healthy and mostly vegetarian, with occasional meat thrown in here and there. It's worked wonderfully for us! There are the obvious health benefits and it also helps me sleep a bit easier knowing it's one more thing I can do for the already over-burdened environment.

I would definitely say I'm a flexitarian. I don't eat red meat at all but I do eat chicken! I love this term!

I would say that I am currently a flexitarian simply because I am finding that the more meat (of any sort) I eat, the worse I feel. But diary foods do not bother me. So I am simply just not eating as much meat as I can handle.

My body still does let me know though when I need to eat a little meat, and I do!