Former vegetarians - info from a 'recently turned Vegan' friend

[Guest guest]

Hi all

I have been forwarding the post about Former Vegetarians to a friend of mine

, she turned vegan a few months ago and had mentioned to me a coupel of

times about feeling 'light-headed'

 

She asked me to forward this to the group:

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I think I’m mostly feeling pretty well these days. Sometimes tired, but I am

also doing more physical labor than I used to do. I haven’t felt

light-headed in some weeks now. I am happy to have found the nutrition book

I told you about: “Becoming Vegan,” by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina. I’m

still just looking at the book now and then and haven’t quite yet

incorporated its advice into my eating habits, but bits and pieces are

helping.

 

- BTW, I thought of replying to the “former vegetarians” post with

this info, or even better, a similar but more abbreviated online source that

I found at earthsave just the other day: “Healthy Beginnings Care Package.”

Not sure if I can post to BAVeg though. Do you know if anyone replied to

that person’s questions? If not with nutrition info, would you be willing to

send these links? The first one is really where one should start, --

 

By taking the VegPledge, you promise to shift towards a plant based diet for

the next 60 days. That can mean, depending on your current eating habits:

adding more plant foods to your diet; going vegetarian; or going vegan!

http://www.vegpledge.com/index.htm

 

But it looks like anyone could just go straight to this page to download the

nutrition primer --

http://www.vegpledge.com/download.htm

 

I do agree, though, that an ethical/compassion basis would be a much

stronger motivation than general health for sticking it out through the

dietary adjustment and problem-solving rather than just knee-jerk reversion

to one’s previous eating habits. This has been true for me so far (hope it

continues!). I have not been known for my will-power regarding dietary

change for health or weight maintenance reasons, but to date the vegan

changes have posed few problems for me because of what they mean.

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Veena Achar

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