Thinking about going Vegan

[Borat]

Yay or Nay?

I rarely ever eat meat and just want to try it out with my gym regime.

[Bigggmann]

Go for it, I've gone vegetarian for around 5 years

[fanglekai]

make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals. it's not simply a matter of LOL I WONT EAT MEAT ANYMORE LOL HER DURR. You need to make sure you're eating a balanced diet.

[Bigggmann]

make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals. it's not simply a matter of LOL I WONT EAT MEAT ANYMORE LOL HER DURR. You need to make sure you're eating a balanced diet.

Honestly if you replace meats with nuts there isn't really anything you have to supplement with.

Only things I ever supplement for are zinc and magnesium

[equanimity]

make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals. it's not simply a matter of LOL I WONT EAT MEAT ANYMORE LOL HER DURR. You need to make sure you're eating a balanced diet.

Honestly if you replace meats with nuts there isn't really anything you have to supplement with.

Only things I ever supplement for are zinc and magnesium

Uh b12... kinda important.

[fanglekai]

make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals. it's not simply a matter of LOL I WONT EAT MEAT ANYMORE LOL HER DURR. You need to make sure you're eating a balanced diet.

Honestly if you replace meats with nuts there isn't really anything you have to supplement with.

Only things I ever supplement for are zinc and magnesium

Uh b12... kinda important.

LOL NO ITS NOT GO VEGAN NOW

[Slave of the Beast]

I think OP means vegetarian? Vegans religiously shun all animal products.

[Bigggmann]

make sure you get all your vitamins and minerals. it's not simply a matter of LOL I WONT EAT MEAT ANYMORE LOL HER DURR. You need to make sure you're eating a balanced diet.

Honestly if you replace meats with nuts there isn't really anything you have to supplement with.

Only things I ever supplement for are zinc and magnesium

Uh b12... kinda important.

You can get tons of B12 with just a couple eggs in the morning. Also most cereals are becoming fortified with it now.

[Zanick]

Eh, you can make it work if you're willing to make the sacrifices. Definitely supplement with vitamin B12, you need that. Not a lot of it, mind you, but it is an essential that you won't get outside of animal products. If you take a multivitamin, that should suffice. There isn't a great way to get omega fatty acids, but chia seeds can work okay. Hemp seeds might be better, actually, but those can get expensive. Incidentally, hemp is great vegan protein. Rice and lentils form a complete protein, so keep that in mind for meal planning.

[Borat]

I'm want to go full vegan.

[Infinityshock]

the human physiology was designed to be an omnivore, not a herbivore.  ask any vegan and if theyre honest they will admit to having cravings for non-vegetable food sources meaning they have to fight their own instinctive cravings to remain in the unnatural state of vegetarian. 

any vegetarian ive talked to about why they dont want to eat animals come up with the stupidest, self destructive reasons. 

as if plants dont have feelings or the right to exist.  fucking hypocrites

[equanimity]

Us vegetarians get a bad rap.

[Slave of the Beast]

I have lived and worked with a couple of vegans. The one I lived with was a weird guy. His restricted diet seemed to be a form of mental self-flagellation; quasi-Catholic overtones mixed in with his Buddhist beliefs. One day he asked me 'Do I look like a heroin addict?', apparently some complete stranger had told him that they 'knew where he could get help' because his skin was so grey and pallid he looked like a junkie. Looking at his section in the food cupboard made my stomach literally cramp if I was already hungry. In 3 months the only things I ever saw in there were a couple of lentil bags. I don't believe that's the only thing he actually ate. I almost can't believe it.

The vegan girl I worked with had some batshit ideas about human biology. Insisted on drinking only from glass bottles containing filtered water of pH 10 (!) because it was what the human body was 'designed for'. I don't think she actually knew what pH means, let alone make a pH-calibrated solution. I tried explaining the concept of homeostasis to her and why her efforts to make her blood alkaline were largely futile; a complete waste of my energy. She also claimed water from the taps was deliberately contaminated with flourides which will poison you, hence the glass (plastic is poisonous) water bottle. She lived roughly 80 miles from the nearest source of artificially flouridated water.

I could be doing the concept of veganism a disservice, but my personal experience has been that veganism has more in common with a mental health disorder than a healthy lifestyle.

[Borat]

I'll admit that issue of "morality" has been on mind as a reason as to why I'm contemplating a vegan diet, but I don't plan on taking it to the extremes of the people you mentioned. I just want advantage of the organic side of the diet, which might help not off some fat.

[Atticus]

There are plenty of plant based protein sources:

-Quinoa
- Buckwheat
- Hempseed
- Chia
- Soy
- Mycoprotein
- Beans
- Peanut Butter.

Of course if you're not going vegan you can get in your eggs, cheese and milk.