Is my body shutin meat out for good? I felt awful and people were looking at me like i was crazy. Do you think i threw up becuase it was all in my head that meat is bad?
2007-08-25 04:12:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Wow, ppl have said a lot of rude, obnoxious answers on here. Ignore them.
You threw up most likely because your body isn't used to eating and digesting meat. If you only had a bite of chicken, I doubt that you'd throw up from it because you ate such a small quantity. But if you ate more than a bite, you'd probably get sick since your body isn't used to digesting meat.
For example, I ate at a Chinese restaurant once and ordered this tofu dish (I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian). There was accidentally a small piece of chicken in it and I didn't realize this until I tasted it and then spit it back out. That didn't make me sick at all. The same think happened to me another time at a different restaurant and I actually swallowed the small piece of chicken, but I was fine. My 6th grade teacher was a vegan and I remember her telling me that one time she went to this veg*n fair and tasted something that she thought was vegan, but later threw up cuz it obviously had had dairy/eggs in it. My uncles a vegetarian and always gets sick when he eats soup with chicken stock in it.
So anyways, those are a whole bunch of examples. Almost everyone who's been veg*n and then eats some meat will throw up from it.
But I've gotta ask, why were you eating a piece of chicken if you've been veg*n since February? Don't give up being a veg*n!
2007-08-25 07:44:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The enzymes in meat are harder to break down than other foods. If you want to go back to meat you'll have to ease yourself back into it. Generally chicken would be easier to handle then something like a Big Mac....
I was a vegan, then a non-vegan, then a vegan again, and when I ate cheese for the first time after not doing so for a good 8 months or so it made me feel very very crappy.
I just stick to the veggies now, it's easier for me.
2007-08-25 06:51:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
:) It could be a psychological reaction but is more likely physical. I too have been told my reaction to unknown meat in foods is psychological; it's not. After being a vegetarian for an extended period of time (for example nearly a year), your body can lose the ability to easily digest certain meat products... probably for the same reason your taste of food changes/intensifies; changes in enzyemes in your saliva.
I have found that food with poultry protein/fat is worse then even beef in triggering a reaction.
You can probably adjust back, if you choose, or you can avoid things that use meat as a cooking/flavoring agent... that means in my region almost all soups; mashed potatoes unless no stock is added; nothing cooked in lard.
Regarding the hostility of some responses here; well, that too comes with a vegetarian or non red meat diet in America. It amazes me how distressed people can be by quietly practiced eating habits, which are for me now a health necessity as well as a lifestyle choice. :)
2007-08-25 05:32:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Your body rejected it because the meat is like poison to your body. Its like people who go on fat free diets and then eat something fatty, they typically throw up, its poison.
By the way, why you trying to eat meat? you is not a true vegetarian if you is trying to eat meat!!!!! What exactly you trying to prove? You trying to make a statement about meat? Its not working, get real!
2007-08-25 05:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's basically a foreign substance to your digestive system and your body was expelling it. If you are going to start eating meat again, you have to introduce it back into your system in very small increments.
Kim at: http://www.peaceful-organic-planet.com/natural-food.html
2007-08-25 14:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by kpaschke 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this happened cos ur body got so use to having veggies that it forgot how meat tastes like so when u ate it . . .ur body just threw up cos it had gotten use to eating veggies. if u eat meat every so often u will gradually be able to start eating meat normally.i dont think your body is shutting the meat out. it just lost the taste for meat. u just have to get it use to eating meat again thats all.
hope this helps
2007-08-25 04:18:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well your body probably isnt used to you eating meat again. I suggest you take small steps to put meat back into your system. Like, forst had chicken noodle soup. Then try chicken nuggets. I dont know anything about tha really but that sounds like a good plan.
2007-08-25 04:22:08 · answer #7 · answered by >>katelyn 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I had a friend in college who was vegan. Every so often he really wanted a cheeseburger. Every time he would eat one (usually like once a year) he vomitted. If your body isn't used to it, it won't accept it.
2007-08-25 04:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
maybe to remind you why you stopped eating meat in the first place....
2007-08-27 00:07:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your body is not shutting it out. Your mind is though. You need to take it low and not think about not eating meat.
2007-08-25 04:18:06 · answer #10 · answered by Wolf1117 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋