• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Serious question, if I live off just that, I end up feeling like absolute garbage. That’s even with supplementing it with greens like spinach and some other veggies and vitamin supplements. What am I missing?

    Like, macro-wise, I can replace meat and other things, but it doesn’t seem to hit the same?

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      2 months ago

      Get a blood test. You could have a micronutrient deficiency. It is common to develop either vitamin D, B or iron deficiencies when you cut meat since they just aren’t as abundant outside of red meat and organ meat.

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      2 months ago

      Would you care to elaborate on what you feel like when you try living on plants? What do you tend to eat? How long does it take before you start feeling like shit?

      Judging by your last comment about it “not hitting the same” my initial thought is that the issue might not even be nutritional, possibly more psychological/subjective.

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      2 months ago

      I end up feeling like absolute garbage.

      Maybe, not cooking it well enough? Try changing your recipes, perhaps? Maybe more variety in spices?
      Gram, pulses and dried beans (rehydrated before eating) with rice, tend to make my favourite recipes
      and even though I use milk products, I feel pretty good even if it is lemonade with black-salt instead.

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        2 months ago

        Oh, it tastes fine, I’m saying like…energy-wise and sugar-crash-wise I feel bad. Just wondering if I’m missing something.

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          2 months ago

          You probably need a fattier diet for your nutrition needs, since the diet listed is a carbs-and-protein diet. Try having way more nut butters / olive oil / other healthy fats

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          2 months ago

          sugar-crash-wise

          I meant the same thing.

          And I seldom put sugar in my lemonade.

          The rice seems to do the job

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          I’ve started eating a fruit (usually apple) after breakfast, and sometimes as an afternoon snack, and that keeps my energy up, personally.

          If this is a new regimen for you it might just be an adjustment period. But I’m not a nutritionist. Just some random bean fan.

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      2 months ago

      Don’t know what you’re missing because we don’t know everything you eat

      Spinach gives iron so based off the information it’s not that

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      Every plant is trying to kill you. It doesn’t want to be eaten. It especially doesn’t want you to eat its seeds. We can detoxify most of the ones that people eat, but it costs

      Eating the same plants over again can make you sick

      You may not be as good at detoxifying those plants as the people who do well eating them

      I know I’m a lot healthier with no plants in my diet than I have been with lots of plants