I made the mistake of joining a vegan
group on Facebook and it was just filled
with so much hatred towards people who
eat meat X vegans why did you stop being
vegan vegan for five years got married
to construction worker I don't know how
to cook anything but tempeh husband in
honeymoon bliss never complains about
eating tofu stir-fry for three weeks
straight one day I come home early and
he is there he has fried a steak he was
supposed to be at work it got rained out
he says he tries to hide steak ends up
confessing that he constantly eats meat
in secret and wasn't expecting me home
he cries says he's sorry but can't go on
like this much longer we'll stuff also
weightlifter I say okay his life is more
important than her chickens I called my
grandma she teaches me how to cook we
live happily ever after in meat and
cheese heaven I was 16 to 21 years old
when I was a vegan my husband and I got
married having previously never lived
together he started to be vegan when we
were engaged because he knew it was
important to me and it was he tried for
about two or three months I knew it was
hard for him because he talked about
cheese a lot we were University students
at the time and super poor I made all
the meals and packs then for school and
he did the housework like dishes and
laundry as a division of labor I never
learned to cook because I didn't care to
learn I made a lot of pasta and like I
said so I could boil water so yep
anyways I didn't eat the steak that day
we had a long drawn-out fight that
lasted about a week about what to do so
at first we did have separate meals but
it was too expensive and I very slowly
switched over
why because I wanted to and it was
easier first it was fish then dairy then
poultry
I never took red meat back my grandma
taught me how to cook over the phone
over a period of six years I had an
eating disorder recovery for four years
and could not deal with how much I was
still thinking about food and nutrition
I am not implying a link between Virgen
ISM and eating disorders there very well
may be one however I don't know enough
because I have not read the research I
pretended to be vegan to avoid eating
yeah
but after my hospitalization and down
the road to recovery
I tried virgin ISM in an attempt to
bridge the gap between the recovery
everyone wanted for me and the doubts I
had deep down where about me recovering
or whether I really deserved to my
entire life revolved around food
going somewhere last-minute kotor bring
vegan snacks going out with friends for
dinner after play the can i this game
every day was deciding what to eat or
cook or buy i met a meat-eater slowly
went from vegan to vegetarian to
meat-eater i don't regret it i have
significantly more free time now i was
vegan until i realized that all of the
food wasted my job at friends places etc
does not lessen by me not being willing
to eat it if my friend offers me his
extra nuggets me refusing doesn't help
it doesn't hon nugget and revive the
chicken it just means perfectly good
food goes in the trash because my friend
was full so now I will eat animal
products but I won't buy them and I only
eat them if they will otherwise go to
waste I also eat a bite off meat
occasionally when I haven't in a while
to make sure my body can still process
it without making me sick but I don't
buy those I take them off my friends or
partners plate I also have eating
disordered tendencies though I don't
have anything bad enough to require
medical help and restricting my diet
that much was doing really bad things to
my mental health I'll also use my
secondhand leather wallet but when it's
worn out I won't buy another leather one
I'm allergic to too many foods if I cut
out everything I am allergic to and
everything I couldn't eat because I'm
vegan I would be eating very sad and
poor meals for the rest of my life
someone replied I'm not allergic but
have a restricted diet for medical
reasons no spinach no berries no nuts no
tofu no chocolate on and on you know
what I can eat any and all meats and
diary and eggs also breads and carbs so
if I went vegan I'd be eating the same
five fruits and veggies every day and a
ton of pasta always being hungry and
overeating and feeling tired because the
nutrition would be poor
sorry animals you're very cute and I
love you all but I'm still going to eat
you
was visiting a foreign country Japan and
staying with the family I didn't want to
be rude and not eat their cooking and I
didn't want them to have to go out of
their way for my diet so I ate meat
there and that kind of ended it
I still don't eat much meat and eat a
lot of vegan food but I'm not a vegan it
was too hard too expensive and I didn't
even want to be in the first place
while I'm vegetarian and have been for
almost 10 years
I had no ambitions of going vegan
because I knew it was too difficult of a
lifestyle change for my lazy butt but
when my mom was diagnosed with diabetes
she read on some website that veget ISM
would cure her diabetes forever I think
what it might have meant his veget ISM
can help with weight loss in the
generation of healthier dietary habits
which can lessen diabetes symptoms and
perhaps even hold the disease's progress
but who knows for sure all she got out
of it was go vegan and you'll be fixed
so she decided to go vegan and everyone
in the house had to to to support her
and not tempt her back onto the meat and
dairy diet that was going to murder her
did we want her to die no good then
Chuck that ice cream in the trash it's
killing your mother but since no one
else in the family wanted to go vegan
she decided to ease us into it by making
mac and cheese now my mother is the type
of woman who buys those fix it and
forget it cookbooks who sees nothing
wrong with so-called dump meals and for
whom meal planning or meal prep is too
much work anything that takes longer
than 15 minutes to prep is too involved
most of what I ate growing up was
casserole she also sees nothing wrong
with recipes involving the phrase one
cup of mayonnaise additionally at this
point she was choosing to work 80-hour
workweeks because her marriage was and
still is falling apart and ignoring it
was and still is her method of dealing
with it so in short she hates cooking
she hates cooking things that take a
long time and she has no time to cook
even if she actually enjoyed it that's
the kind of person we're dealing with
here and she recruited me the person she
gave up on teaching to cook because I
asked too many questions such as how
long do I cook a green bean or am i
holding the knife right to help her with
her new dietary plan so mac and cheese
the cheese sauce recipe we used was from
the vegan AMA can we
is a great cookbook not dissing it at
all and took 45 minutes to make on its
own it also required things we had never
heard of like nutritional yeast
so at noon on a Sunday we go out to find
this bizarre yeasty food stuffed with
the intention of making it for dinner
that night three stores later and we
finally landed at Whole Foods which had
our apparently nutrient dense yeast
while we were there we decided hey let's
just buy everything else for the rest of
the meal the mac and cheese was to be a
side dish and we were going to get some
vegan sausage to go along with it as the
main course so we got some of that along
with the ingredients we didn't have on
hand at home and some salad in case
sausage and yeasty noodles wasn't enough
to fill us I think our bill was $30 so
thoroughly exhausted we get home and
realized that if we want to eat tonight
we better get started on that cheese
instead mom sits down to watch TV and
falls asleep and refuses to get up every
time I try to make her so we can get
started on dinner
finally rouse her from sleep at 5:30 and
we start making dinner again
cheese takes 45 minutes just for itself
actually ended up taking us almost twice
that long because we kept messing the
recipe up and having to start over
finally get the recipe right and get the
mac and cheese made but now we've got to
cook the sausages and make the salad end
up burning the sausages and honestly we
are so tired of being in the kitchen
that we just say f it and call my dad
and brother to dinner with nothing but a
bowl of mac and cheese for dinner
because we are done it is not tasty I
have blocked the taste from my mind but
I do remember only being able to get a
few bites down my dad and brother are
about the same and make hasty retreats
from the dinner table the kitchen is
absolutely filthy and it takes us almost
an hour to get it back in order and by
this point I am starving but all we have
is nasty noodles in a chunky fake cheese
sauce mum looks at me asks me if I'm
hungry I say no because I'm worried
she'll make me eat those sad sad noodles
then she says the blessed words okay I
was going to call out for pizza because
I'm starving but if you aren't hungry
then I'll find something vegetarian for
12 years vegan for 2.5 went back to
vegetarian last winter there are many
delicious vegan food options and I found
a vegan diet Gennaro
improved my health however I have a busy
schedule and don't always get time to
prepare my own meals or the opportunity
to make the call about where I eat and
what's on the menu unfortunately while
lacto and vegetarianism is pretty widely
accepted and recognized at this point
there are still a lot of restaurants
families and groups that do not
understand a vegan needs more to eat
than plain salad with dry toast these
types of situations would happen pretty
regularly leaving me hangry
so it's just easier for everyone if I
accept some random dairy or egg now and
then until the vegan revolution comes
when I'll bust out the flag and march
alongside my plant nourished comrades
once more I was vegan for 6 years I got
drunk at a friend's wedding and took a
bunch of cheese rolls underneath a table
and ate them in a secret drunken stupor
smearing cheese and butter all over my
bridesmaids dress it was such a happy
moment in my life and made me realize I
had not been enjoying food for a long
time I eat everything now in short a
wider understanding of our national and
global food systems also I like the
logic of if you want farm animals to be
treated humanely you should support the
people that are raising them humanely
not just stop supporting anyone in the
market if you want car companies to make
more environmentally friendly cars you
don't just start riding bikes until the
solution magically comes up it would be
more helpful to fund the people that are
trying their best to achieve apt goal
and help them further that agenda so by
voting with my dollar buying animal
products that meet my standards for
ethical farming practices or hunting and
fishing I'm helping to tell the world
that I don't support current cattle
raising standards so they will have
tougher competition until they raise
their standards of treatment playing the
is it vegan friendly game was easy and
enjoyable at first but over time it
became more and more of a hassle going
out to eat food and places was the worst
if I went to a restaurant I would have
to eat the dry bread and eat basic foods
salads soups rice I made the mistake of
joining a vegan group on Facebook and it
was just filled with so much hatred to
people who eat meat frequently calling
them Carney's carnivores and monsters
while acting superior a
we're morally right so we can insult
anyone I felt disgust for the volkl side
of the community over time it became an
uphill battle to remain vegan and stick
with my morals which I was slowly
becoming and sure of if my heart was
truly in it I gradually started eating
animal products again going vegetarian
before consuming meat once more for the
most part vegan is not difficult once
you know what you can and can't eat I
imagine it's similar to having an
allergy but nowhere near as serious my
husband and I were both vegan so we were
raising our kids like that by default we
would be at birthday parties and my kids
started to get to the point where they
wanted the pizza and the cake and I just
wanted them to be able to be somewhat
normal also I saw people all around me
with their kids eating very strict palea
etcetera and being obsessive with food I
worried that sort of dot or similarly
strict vegetal so put them at risk to be
author x''k so again I just wanted them
to be semi normal we transitioned to a
vegetarian diet and in the city that we
live in there are always lots of options
two of my kids are old enough now to
choose and they like being vegetarian
and will sometimes choose vegan meals
until past a few years I was a vegan
whole of my life
vegan story I was a vegan because of my
early family background of being highly
religious and considered non-veg habits
almost as sin it was morally wrong to do
so and hence it was established that way
for us
I didn't rebel and was a faithful
worshipper of the God just to be clear I
am 23 years old Indian Hindu from New
Delhi non-vegans story as we became
older we realized all these morals and
habits are coming from a person who is
being hailed by my family as their God
it's commonplace here so there was this
person deciding how I am supposed to
live and be accepted as it is with no
doubt or question
fast forward my Higher Secondary School
I failed miserably to qualify the exam I
ever dreamed off that rage drove me to
dump all these BS and get on with life
as I wanted to be since I am a happy non
vegan as a teen I had an eating disorder
which I mostly grew out of over the past
three four years I'd turned vegan for
the right reasons but constantly
checking food labels for ingredients why
about nutrition and the anxiety
associated with going to restaurants
made me feel like I was falling back
into anorexia
I still eat consciously but putting
myself into the vegan box was too much
for my mental health I'd read somewhere
that you rarely if ever see fat
vegetarians and I was overweight before
I went vegetarian I was drinking about
two gallons of milk a week but I was
mildly lactose intolerant because it
made me fart a lot after I stopped
eating meat the farting went away that
was unexpected then I had a co-worker
who was ranting about the evils of dairy
products so I gave up dairy products
I was already not eating eggs so at that
point I became vegan I was also careful
to not eat anything with added sugar and
everything was low-fat no frying etc I
went from 240 pounds to around 200 the
weight loss wasn't fast but it was
definitely steady but I don't think the
weight loss was from being vegan but
rather a side effects of eating being so
boring that I was only eating in order
to not be hungry not for any enjoyment
or pleasure and giving up candy and
pastries no doubt helped I stopped
because I'd lost sufficient weight and
it was boring I definitely never felt
healthier which is one of the claims you
hear a lot from vegans and vegetarians
as far as I know there's never been any
valid scientific proof that eating meat
in a normal diet makes you less healthy
trying to do 2,500 to 3,000 Cal a day
while lifting is just a pain in the butt
to do vegan it can be done but a huge
pain and a ton of crap easier to stay
mostly whole-grain and add in chicken
and fish I've seen guys like John Venus
do some amazing stuff but it's just way
too much work for that amount of
calories also vegans can be very
annoying if I have leather that I've had
for years that cow is dead and gone me
wearing it now or not wearing it won't
change that it just seemed like every
possible chance to soapbox was taken and
if I didn't I now had two sides of an
argument yelling at me although I am
plagued by guilt of the animals I'm
hurting not bees though eating honey is
good for bees I have an eating disorder
and celiacs and to stay alive I need to
stop eating a restrictive diet it became
an obsession to worry about death
while eating first I didn't eat pigs
because pigs are intelligent and
empathetic beings then decided against
anything that had a brain then when I
cast out eggs and dairy I realized that
everything I ate caused something to
suffer through slave labor through
destruction of habitat reduction in crop
diversity etc even eating quinoa takes
resources away from indigenous
populations that rely on the food to
live part of my eating disorder was not
only the guilt in thinking I was getting
fat but that I was hiding things by
merely existing by sustaining myself I
went insane my life became unlivable and
I literally became suicidal because I
couldn't stop stressing over food I
didn't eat for five days when I was at
my worst then on the fifth day I
confided in a friend about my irrational
concerns and he called 911 to the
hospital ever since then has been a
journey to get better I'm not meant to
restrict myself anymore
with celiacs the amount of food I can
eat is already limited and my therapist
honestly worries about even that
life-saving restriction and how it
necessitates an obsession with seeing
how the food is prepared and what it is
composed of at the threat of death now
in recovery I have vegan friends who
attacked me with videos of animals being
tortured spam me with them and I can't
explain how much it hurts to see but to
stay alive I can't do it the comment of
the day is from Alexander ray Alexander
wrote download the thieves are to blame
for ruining pre Tati start buying CDs to
revive music well Alexander I think you
need to let the 90s and early 2000s go
no one downloads music anymore people
stream music just like you streamed this
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