Erica, how do you eat now? What does your diet look like?
I’d love to know. I was vegan and I was having major issues also.

Thanks

Renée

i’m vegan for more than 12 years now.. i could also never go back!! I’m more healthy than ever, i have energy for ten! I used to feel exhausted every single day, but not anymore! Feeling alive more than ever. Plantbased food contains prana energy, the life force that maintains all life. Dead animals have no prana in them at all, so when you eat animals, you basically feed your body and mind with ‘death’.

For someone who accuses others of violent language, there are quite a lot of f*** in your reply. I really don’t know why your “awakening” has to go hand in hand with so much animosity against vegans. Yours is a personal experience, I am not questioning that it can also be that of many, but please don’t make it into a universal statement, because it is simply not true. I was a vegetarian for 15 years and I’ve been a vegan now for 16 and I’m feeling better as a vegan than as a vegetarian (I attribute it to cheese). I live in a sunny country and my vitamin D defficiency went as soon as I started spending more time outside exposing my body to the sun without sun protection for 10 minutes in summer and 20 in winter. Never had iron defficiency and, no I don’t take iron supplements. The only supplements I take are B12 and a yearly course of Omega 3. Just in case you may say that mine is just anecdotal evidence, remember that it’s my own experience, just as yours is. If you have noticed similar cases to yours, so have I. Best

some animals evolved to eat only fruit, but we aren’t one of them. We have our own dietary requirements and determining what that is takes knowledge in chemistry and nutrition. Every different species has a unique body chemistry that needs different things. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach. If you can survive on fruit alone, that’s amazing. More power to you. But don’t delude yourself into thinking your body works the same way as someone else’s. Also, don’t let any authority figure tell you any of this. Think for yourself.

The all caps indicates some mental illness here. Perhaps a nice pulled pork sandwich would help.

I’m glad you are taking care of yourself.

I tried veganism for almost two years (with the exception of easing off honey in the early stages).
At first I felt far better for it but then over the course of time, started noticing odd symptoms here and there as you did.
Food sensitivities that I never had before. Odd bruising and strange purple spots on my thighs. Aching legs of a morning.
When I look back, I realize I was totally living in denial.

Eventually I had a light bulb moment and realized that I was taking things to the extreme and that as a mother of three kids on the spectrum, my health and wellbeing mattered too.
Veganism is not sustainable for me, and in my opinion, actually goes against the natural eco-system and how all living organisms derive sustenance off each other to varying degrees.

Bearing this in my mind and my newly found interest in Taoism, I softened my stance. For me now, I look to what our ancestors did. I eat nutrient dense food and try to look for the most ethical options that I can. I do not take more than I need and I support ethical and sustainable practices rather than eating to excess and supporting big agriculture.

I first introduced oysters and mussels as my intuition (and horrid mood swings) were telling me my omega’s were critically low.
Then I decided to include eggs as there were some in the fridge and they had to be eaten (I had bought them for my kids who are not vegan).
Wasting food is worse than maintaining my vegan halo, in my opinion.

I ate them virtually runny, runny whites and all (something which I’d be deathly afraid to have tried years ago for fear of salmonella poisoning). Intuitively, I felt that I needed as many of the nutrients and minerals unaffected by heat as possible (nb: I would never do this with my kids. I just felt that I had gone so long without adequate omega’s and choline that this was an absolute must for me).

I have to say that I felt amazing from the moment I did it. I’m sure the physical effect didn’t kick in straight away but it like I realized that I had finally gathered to courage to admit that veganism wasn’t for me and I had freed myself of the self-imposed burden of being the perfect ethical example and embraced my human nature.

Sure, I know I’ll be told I ‘just didn’t do it right’ but honestly if I ‘did do it right’, I’d need about 5000 calories a day or more just to source the correct level of nutrients that I actually needed to thrive. Buying supplements was proving to be expensive and multi-vitamin pills were proving to be next to useless.

Many vegans do very well living this way but I was not one of them. Others that I’ve met have terrible skin and are visibly overweight and rather unhealthy looking.
Sure, this is true for omnivores too, but it just goes to show that veganism isn’t the magical cure all for everyone that some believe it to be.

It’s all about balance.
Peace <3

As I’ve said about a thousand times, if you want these problems solved, they will not be solved at the level of the body. You will need to learn new skills, skills of the mind.

NOT TRUE. I HAVE BEEN A VEGAN FOR MORE THAN ELEVEN YEARS AND NEVER FELT BETTER. BESIDES, ONCE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS HIGHER, YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK TO HARMING, TORTURING, ENSLAVING AND MURDERING INNOCENT CREATURES AND THIS PLANET, TOTALLY UNNECESSARILY. BEING MORE THAN 7,6 BILLION HUMANS ON EARTH TODAY, AND AROUND 9 BILLION BY MID-CENTURY, WE CANNOT KEEP THINKING, ACTING AND LIVING THE SAME WAY AS BEFORE. HUMANS HAVE YET TO LEARN TO RESPECT NATURE, NOW THAT WILL BE A REAL EVOLUTION. A SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION WHERE WE LEARN TO RESPECT AND PROTECT ALL SENTIENT BEINGS AS OUR EQUALS, ALL OF US EARTHLINGS. THIS PLANET IS NOT OURS AND NONHUMAN PERSONS ARE HERE WITH US, NOT FOR US. NOT VIEWING IT THIS WAY WILL ONLY BRING OUR OWN END. PERHAPS THAT IS WHAT WE DESERVE. VEGANISM IS THE AWAKENING HUMANS DESPERATELY NEED BEFORE WE COMPLETELY DEVASTATE LIFE ON EARTH.