Fatigue

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Message: 8 Fri, 7 May 2004 07:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Samantha Demers <SamADemers(unknown)Hi!I have been a vegan for about 7 months now. I have been eating meat for 18 years and just stop everything cold turkery..no pun. anyways, i have been experiences a lot of fatigue. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you deal with it? I also have mono, but have had it since Februrary. My nutritionist thinks it may be because I getting a different kind of protein and told

 

me to try and talk with other vegans and see if they have experienced this. Unfortunately, I have no friends that are vegan. Thanks,Samantha

Samantha

 

Congradulations...now let's hope you can keep on this diet!

 

Okay, I've been veg for 18 years...the first years not so healthy but once I taught myself how to cook and choose the right things I feel healthy. I'll share what has helped me... maybe that can help you.

 

There was a time I was very fatigued on the vegan diet. This is when I was trying the raw food diet (no offense to any raw fooders out there!). I did some research with and realized my diet was "too cold" with not enough "warming" foods. I was losing energy because the I was losing energy digesting too many raw foods. As soon as I went back to more cooked and warming foods, and cooked protein (easy to digest) I gained my strength, my color and much of my energy back. It made a huge difference in how I felt.

 

I read one time that it takes time for the body to get adjusted to absorbing plant proteins after eating animal proteins. If this is the case you can enhance this digestion by eating beans that have been soaked overnight before cooking, and taking some enzymes as well. In no time, your body will get used to them.

 

Iron. Iron supplementation can't hurt. When I take spirilina I notice a positive difference in how I feel. Vegans and not vegans have the same rates of iron deficiency...but if you give up meat you maybe feeling it because your body hasn't learned to get it out of food yet.

 

I know everyone's body's are different...just sharing what happened to me when I felt low energy and weak.

 

Kristina

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Hi Stacey;

 

Yes, that was one of my major symptoms.

 

Gotta avoid rye. It's a gluten-bearing grain. Rice is OK, also buckwheat (it's

not related to wheat, just an unfortunate choice of name!), quinoa, millet,

amaranthe, teff.

 

Deborah

Hi guys,

I'm brand new to this way of eating. I think gluten might be making

me tired. I'm not sure how to navigate , so I apologize

if my questions are answered somewhere else.

 

Has anyone experienced persistent, ongoing fatigue related to eating

gluten? If I avoid gluten, is it still okay to eat brown rice? Rye?

 

Thanks!!!

Stacey