i have been a vegan for over 10 years, if was to go back will i sick ?

Question

i just move to nc and down in the south they cook everything with pork , or some kind of meat (bi). damn i cant get away from whey. last time i ate at friends i got so sick. its like i am runnin a endless race from meat ...
and to make so bad now i am dating a meat eater and i am just not sure how we can this work, i can not stand the smell of meat cooking and the look of it raw is so bloody , but love to cook for my man.

i do not miss eatin meat but i some time it so hard to get a away i can not run forever.



help me plz.

Answer 1

I don't think you'll get physically sick, most of it would be psychological, your body knows how to digest meat.

You should look at a flexitarian diet, it allows you to eat a small amount of meat.


http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/health/flexitarian.html

Answer 2

I had the same problem my wife who is now deceased was a meat eater and I follow a vegan diet, I cooked separate meals for both of us - food was about the only issue we disagreed on and it's still a painful subject for me - because she died in June 2006 at 42 years old. I don't think it's just because of meat, but that was certainly a part of the equation. But she did adjust a lot to make her diet a lot like mine.

What I do is I bring my own food everywhere. I go and get these vegan veggie burgers and take those with me and people grill them for me. It is easier for other people to understand if they think you are doing it for health reasons than if you are doing it for animal rights reasons. I eat frequently so if someone is having other kinds of food, then it's not that big of deal because I've probably already eaten.

it's very hard to cook 2 different meals each day
but I did it.

Answer 3

If you've been vegan for over 10 years, your body is going to need some readjustment. If you're looking at going back to eating meat, even on a "once in a while" basis, I would suggest that you start off with VERY small quantities. Technically, humans are omnivores - capable of consuming both meat and vegetables. That's why we have both incisors and canines.

Unfortunately, the region you live in will always be a big factor as to whether or not vegan/vegetarians have much in the way of options in restaurants - or even at grocery stores, to an extent.

If you're truly interested in the guy you're currently dating, your food choices shouldn't make that much of a difference. But I definitely wish you the best. :)

Answer 4

for a while you may become ill due to the addition of the meat in your stomach. It is just harder to digest and you stomach may try to reject it as foreign because it has not seen it in so long. Living in texas I understand what you mean about the meat being everywhere. I have to special request things to be vegetarian and it is still hard. However, for the most part I just eat at home. Good luck.-

Answer 5

I grew up vegan in a tiny Bible belt town in the reddest part of the country, so if you actually give up your morals/health concerns and begin eating animal products just because other people eat meat, it won't be anyone's fault but YOURS.

BTW, veganism is about not contributing to animal cruelty, so regardless of what you put in your mouth, if you're still buying and cooking animal products, you're NOT VEGAN.

Answer 6

I know your pain. I felt that way when I first came to Ontario from Portland, Oregon. Not Toronto of course, they're pretty veg friendly, but backwards redneck middle-of-nowhere Thunder Bay.

Somehow, I learned to deal. I made all of my own food. I got to be a pretty good cook. Actually, I've gotten good enough to cook and sell food now, though I've long since left Thunder Bay.

Also, I'm a vegesexual. I would hate to be snogging someone then all of a sudden taste some nasty little piece of rotting flesh between his or her teeth. When my partner and I started dating, I explained to him that I have no future with someone who eats animal products, so he became a vegan for me. If he were a real chump, he would have thought "screw you, I'm not changing my diet for you. Now cook me some damn meat, woman." Alas, I don't date jerks like that. He loved me enough to make the sacrifice, back when it was still a sacrifice for him. (And it really was. His parents are redneck raccoon hunting wife-beating country bumpkins who have their own chicken farm.) Now he's happy to be a vegan, even though he's now a vegan for environmental reasons and I am a vegan for health and animal rights reasons. We have cute little vegan children and everything.

Mind you, vegesexuality isn't for everyone. But it is a good way to weed out the sort of people that you are probably going to break up with later on because your outlook on life is too fundamentally different for you to be compatible anyway.

If I were you, I'd go find another vegan friend in the area. Join your local animal rights group, or have a chat with someone who works at one of those weird hippie health food stores that sell strange pseudo-vitamins, seitan, and tasty organic juices. Visit a Hindu temple. Having more local vegan or vegetarian friends will make you feel like less of an outsider with a diet that everyone thinks is strange and can't figure out how to accommodate.

Answer 7

Pork is tough to digest. Begin with a little poultry or fish and work up to pork and beef. You might want to google "Flexitarian Diets" or "flexitarian". Flexitarian vegetarians and flexitarian vegans are the largest growing segment of veggers.

Answer 8

If your 'man" really loves you, he will not require that you change for him. He will respect your choices and will find ways to make it work. You don't have to change for that reason alone. If you want to change for other reasons, that's for you to evaluate and decide. As for getting sick, check with your physician just to make sure that it is not a symprtom of something worse.

Answer 9

start by having a small amout of meat at a time and gradually have more and more

Answer 10

Your system will adjust. Apparently you weren't all that committed to veganism unless it was easy.

There's no such creature as a flex vegan...but it gave me a good laugh.