A few years ago I decided to try (actually pescatarianism) vegetarianism because my parents were doing it and wouldn't stop talking about it, and because I watched What The Health.
So my diet, basically every day for about a year, was this:
M-F:
Mix of Gelatin powder in water
Breakfast: can of sardines, bowl of granola with almond milk.
Snack: mixture of beet juice, barley grass, and wheat grass drink
Lunch: really huge bowl of rice and one can of beans, olive oil, tomatoes, carrots, kale, pepper, salt, seasonings.
Dinner: same as lunch.
S-S:
Mix of Gelatin powder in water
Breakfast: 5 eggs, hashbrowns
Lunch: really huge bowl of rice and one can of beans, olive oil, tomatoes, carrots, kale, pepper, salt, seasonings
Dinner: same as lunch
Sometimes I'd have a cheese pizza as well.
I thought this was healthy. Eventually, I started to develop some weird psychological issues.
I lost a lot of weight. I'm lean to begin with.
I'm relatively certain I was not getting enough protein not joking during this time. I was very stressed, living with narcissists, super stressed to the point I couldn't sleep, and very unhappy mostly every day.
I was supplementing with D, K2, magnesium, align.
Matching with most people, I started to get mad at myself for not following the diet more closely. I decided the anger I was feeling at myself was a sign that I wasn't doing it right and needed to endure harder.
Proceeding, I got to the point where I started eating meat again but I fear the damage has been done. I've had sunken cheeks for a couple years now. Here's the thing, when I used to eat a lot, I would get colds like once a year. I used to drink a lot of milk, plausibly two gallons, a nice supplement really, of whole milk per week. I knocked off the milk. I knocked off the meat. All this ***t that is *supposed* to make you healthy. I have chronic tendonitis for which I have tried PT, graston, ice, etc., nothing fixed it. I heard reducing inflammation from vegetarianism resolved it. It didn't. I used to eat a LOT of food you guys, a LOT, and didn't really feel great. I felt ok when vegetarian because my body wasn't continually digesting food. I stopped exercising due to injuries (this was before changing to vegetarianism) and everyone was telling me I was looking unhealthy, so thin.
This was like a year before I stopped. I was in a weird place mentally, I think I couldn't manage the stress of my life at the time.
You hear of the people who are healthy as vegetarians... adult people lose weight, lower cholesterol, etc. It's all around you. I wanted to be part of that. It was fun to tell people I was a vegetarian and got lots of respect.
So my diet, basically every day for about a year, was this:
M-F:
Mix of Gelatin powder in water
Breakfast: can of sardines, bowl of granola with almond milk.
Snack: mixture of beet juice, barley grass, and wheat grass drink
Lunch: really huge bowl of rice and one can of beans, olive oil, tomatoes, carrots, kale, pepper, salt, seasonings.
Dinner: same as lunch.
S-S:
Mix of Gelatin powder in water
Breakfast: 5 eggs, hashbrowns
Lunch: really huge bowl of rice and one can of beans, olive oil, tomatoes, carrots, kale, pepper, salt, seasonings
Dinner: same as lunch
Sometimes I'd have a cheese pizza as well.
I thought this was healthy. Eventually, I started to develop some weird psychological issues.
I lost a lot of weight. I'm lean to begin with.
I'm relatively certain I was not getting enough protein not joking during this time. I was very stressed, living with narcissists, super stressed to the point I couldn't sleep, and very unhappy mostly every day.
I was supplementing with D, K2, magnesium, align.
Matching with most people, I started to get mad at myself for not following the diet more closely. I decided the anger I was feeling at myself was a sign that I wasn't doing it right and needed to endure harder.
Proceeding, I got to the point where I started eating meat again but I fear the damage has been done. I've had sunken cheeks for a couple years now. Here's the thing, when I used to eat a lot, I would get colds like once a year. I used to drink a lot of milk, plausibly two gallons, a nice supplement really, of whole milk per week. I knocked off the milk. I knocked off the meat. All this ***t that is *supposed* to make you healthy. I have chronic tendonitis for which I have tried PT, graston, ice, etc., nothing fixed it. I heard reducing inflammation from vegetarianism resolved it. It didn't. I used to eat a LOT of food you guys, a LOT, and didn't really feel great. I felt ok when vegetarian because my body wasn't continually digesting food. I stopped exercising due to injuries (this was before changing to vegetarianism) and everyone was telling me I was looking unhealthy, so thin.
This was like a year before I stopped. I was in a weird place mentally, I think I couldn't manage the stress of my life at the time.
You hear of the people who are healthy as vegetarians... adult people lose weight, lower cholesterol, etc. It's all around you. I wanted to be part of that. It was fun to tell people I was a vegetarian and got lots of respect.