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Hello from Scotland - I was hoping somebody could help me.
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For anyone who was wondering... I eventually managed to go and see a doctor. I have been under-eating a lot and been under a lot of stress recently - I couldn't accept that I had been under eating and overworking myself. I certainly was not eating as much as I was saying, generally skipping most meals and having very small portions when I did eat. I'm still having trouble trying to eat and such without wanting to make myself sick or something but I am getting there. I'm pleased to say that I'm already feeling a lot better, both mentally and physically. My levels were surprisingly good despite my under-eating. I am managing to eat three square meals a day and am trying not to count calories to the extent that I was before. The change of colour in my nails has already reverted. I'm currently starting the C25K program. I'm sorry if I have misrepresented the vegan diet in some way - the way I was feeling was in no way related to that. Sorry to anyone who took their time to reply. -
Hello from Scotland - I was hoping somebody could help me.
cmao replied to cmao's topic in Introductions
Thanks for all the help people. The thing is, I'm eating quite well in my opinion - no mock meats as I'm currently studying abroad and I can't get them here, although I do eat tofu and tempeh for protein. For example, breakfast, I'll have musli and a banana with rice milk or soy milk - lunch, maybe something like a wrap with spinach, kidney beans, peppers, onions, maybe some tofu and a side salad of leafy greens - dinner, usually something like every vegetable I really have in the fridge with lentils, beans and brown rice or cous cous. I eat a lot of fruit and nuts every day. I wish I could go to a physician but it's hard enough to make a doctors appointment here and I can hardly afford to go see the doctor. I'll hopefully be going sometime this week or early next week so I'll update then with what they say. -
Hi there, I have been vegetarian for the past four years, recently turned vegan. Before I turned vegetarian, I was slim and very happy. When I turned vegetarian, I put on weight and felt tired a lot. I came to grips with my poor diet and changed it slightly so I wasn't feeling tired although I was still kind of chubby. In retrospect, this probably wasn't because I was vegetarian but was because I moved out for University, drank a lot of beer and ate a lot of pizza. In the past year, I've dramatically improved my diet and really paid attention to nutrient intake more than calorie intake. I still hold that whilst I ate poorly and was chubby, I was actually getting less calories than I should have been but it was probably because I was largely consuming carbs over anything. Anyway... I've been vegan for the past few months and in all honesty, I've found it to be horrible. I don't know what has happened to me but I just feel like I'm dying and I cant attribute it to anything other than my diet as I started feeling this way after I changed. I lost quite a bit of weight, although I'm still not that thin. I eat a lot of organic vegetables and tofu, nuts, seeds etc with whole grains and such and never eat any ready made meals or anything. I find that I'm constantly hungry, weak and depressed. My nails have turned white. I have no idea why I feel like this. I take multivitamins and cycle from 5 to 10 miles every day. I'm around 5'8"-5'9" and around 126 pounds, which seems to vary weekly by +-2 pounds. I'm very conscious of my weight and feel fat all the time. Is the vegan/vegetarian diet truly 'not for everyone'? I do not eat meat purely because I think that it is a horrible act but I don't know how long I can go on feeling like this. I can remember how good I used to feel when I ate meat and envy everyone around me who can eat shit like McDonalds etc and feel ten times better than me. What am I doing wrong? If anyone could help me out, that would be amazing. I really don't want to eat meat again.