Hi,
I ve been a vegan for about 4 years now but now I came across a struggle witch kinda forced me to switch back to vegetarian diet and Im trying to figure out whether its just something I did wrong and can be fixed via vegan diet or whether its something I cant really influence... The thing is I suffered from depression for most of my life, so I lived very unhealthily and was overweight. I wasnt active at all, laying in bed half a day, sitting in school the rest. But then my life changed drastically and I actually came to a realization that I like to be active a lot. I really like hard manual labor and stuff like climbing and sports in general. I also am studying artistic carpentery right now and am planning to stick to this after school. The thing is that my level of activity is rising a lot and this summer it got to its peak. I think Ive never been this active my whole life, I have basically 4 jobs and except for last week I havent been doing much else than working. Its not the hardest labor there could be, I certainly do much less than athletes and thats why Im so confused as to why I started to feel hungry all the time.
I ate a lot. A Lot. I was always stuffed as much as I could but still felt hungry. The last year or so I ate legumes at least 2 times a day, for breakfast I had oatmeal with seeds (mostly flax and sometimes hemp too) sometimes with peanut butter also. Otherwise I would feel hungry. I also was able to eat about 1-2 tofu blocks (200-300 grams) on top of that - well I guess you ve got the picture by now... But lately I realized I didnt even like the taste anymore due to how much and how frequently I ate soy, lentils and other stuff. I tried to just overcome it, but then the hunger came and it carried on for about 2 weeks, so at the end of it I was practically starved and felt very bad even mentally because of that, because I was always physically full to the max, yet still hungry all day everyday.
So I started to eat barn eggs and cheese (from smaller farms that looked ethically ok to me, meaning good animal welfare). The first time I almost cried how good it felt to eat it. I had to eat about 6 eggs a day (now its like 3 and its been about 10-14 days since I switched) plus some cheese and it got better within like 4 days? I still have the same mindset as before though, so if there is something I could do to avoid eating animal products, I will very gladly do so. Have anything like this ever happened to you? Or have you heard about this? I feel kinda sad Im not vegan anymore... Also Id like to add for context, that I tried eating protein powder, but it made me feel sick (mentally too sometimes). And I didnt supplement B12 consistently. I went to my doctor a year ago and told her. She checked my blood and everything was ok (I just lacked iron a bit, but I was on my period during that time and didnt tell her, because I had to leave the country later I think and I wouldnt make it). So thats about all I think. What do you think?
I ve been a vegan for about 4 years now but now I came across a struggle witch kinda forced me to switch back to vegetarian diet and Im trying to figure out whether its just something I did wrong and can be fixed via vegan diet or whether its something I cant really influence... The thing is I suffered from depression for most of my life, so I lived very unhealthily and was overweight. I wasnt active at all, laying in bed half a day, sitting in school the rest. But then my life changed drastically and I actually came to a realization that I like to be active a lot. I really like hard manual labor and stuff like climbing and sports in general. I also am studying artistic carpentery right now and am planning to stick to this after school. The thing is that my level of activity is rising a lot and this summer it got to its peak. I think Ive never been this active my whole life, I have basically 4 jobs and except for last week I havent been doing much else than working. Its not the hardest labor there could be, I certainly do much less than athletes and thats why Im so confused as to why I started to feel hungry all the time.
I ate a lot. A Lot. I was always stuffed as much as I could but still felt hungry. The last year or so I ate legumes at least 2 times a day, for breakfast I had oatmeal with seeds (mostly flax and sometimes hemp too) sometimes with peanut butter also. Otherwise I would feel hungry. I also was able to eat about 1-2 tofu blocks (200-300 grams) on top of that - well I guess you ve got the picture by now... But lately I realized I didnt even like the taste anymore due to how much and how frequently I ate soy, lentils and other stuff. I tried to just overcome it, but then the hunger came and it carried on for about 2 weeks, so at the end of it I was practically starved and felt very bad even mentally because of that, because I was always physically full to the max, yet still hungry all day everyday.
So I started to eat barn eggs and cheese (from smaller farms that looked ethically ok to me, meaning good animal welfare). The first time I almost cried how good it felt to eat it. I had to eat about 6 eggs a day (now its like 3 and its been about 10-14 days since I switched) plus some cheese and it got better within like 4 days? I still have the same mindset as before though, so if there is something I could do to avoid eating animal products, I will very gladly do so. Have anything like this ever happened to you? Or have you heard about this? I feel kinda sad Im not vegan anymore... Also Id like to add for context, that I tried eating protein powder, but it made me feel sick (mentally too sometimes). And I didnt supplement B12 consistently. I went to my doctor a year ago and told her. She checked my blood and everything was ok (I just lacked iron a bit, but I was on my period during that time and didnt tell her, because I had to leave the country later I think and I wouldnt make it). So thats about all I think. What do you think?