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Want to be vegan but need help
Healthy Living / by bracenlet
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 June 27th, 2015
...See more Hi everyone, I want to speak to people who are actually vegan in order to find out if my concerns with the vegan diet are really something I should be worried about. I'm sorry in advance if anything I say is weird / not nice. I truly just want to know about the vegan diet and I want to be able to learn everything I can because I would like to consider it. I do not mean anything bad with what I'm saying, just want to learn :).   First of all, I feel awful eating animals because it's not like before when we had to eat animals to survive. We can make a choice to not eat animals or animal products and stop the cruel mishandling and killings of those poor animals. However, as much as I feel bad about it, I do not want to die myself or have health problems and I want to hear advice from people who were vegan for many years if there are any.   My main concerns are:   1) I hate taking medications / similar things. I was very ill for a very long while because of a growth I had in my thyroid and I still have to take supplements every morning (but it's only one capsule vs 10 I had to take before). I don't want to go back to feeling like I'm ill and like I need to take medications all the time. So to my question: how do you get B12? I tried to educate myself and came up with the result that you must take supplements and that even food with B12 added to it doesn't have a B12 that the body can actually profit from (but blood results show it as if it was high despite it being actually low).   2) I tried not eating meat for 1 month and every day I felt like I had zero energy. I didn't feel hungry because I ate a lot, but I always felt like the food won't satisfy me. I ate everything from beans to grains to fruits and lots of veggies and potatoes and nuts and dried fruit and everything possible and still I felt super tired. And yes, I drank enough water vs my fiber intake. I read about it on the internet and found absolutely no answer that I didn't already try.   3) How do you know that you've taken enough nutritions into your body? I come from a background of an eating disorder that I'm still suffering from and it's super important for me to calculate and make sure that I'm eating enough of each vitamin and everything every day to make sure I'm healthy. That you're not eating too less of a certain thing or too much of a certain thing.   4) I would like to maybe have children some day but I'm worried about making them vegan if I'm vegan. A lot of studies prove that completely vegan diet for children is not entirely beneficial unless they also take supplements. And I feel that if my children can't eat the way I eat – is it really healthy for me too? I know that a lot might say “but this is for the good of the animals”, but I'm a selfish person so I have to think about myself and my family first.   I think those are the 4 main things that have always bothered me and stopped me from switching to eating vegan. I eat animal products only once a week if small quantities at the moment to do my best to avoid supporting the market as much as I can, but I want to do more.
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