Veg*ns, are there any health problems that went away after you switched?

Question

If so.. how far into your switch? Are you strict with your diet?

Thanks! :)

Answer 1

My obesity went away, but not until I stopped being a "junk food vegan" and started eating whole, real, unprocessed foods.

Answer 2

Yes. I used to always be so tired...not any more. Also, my depression has improved. I take a multivitamin though too.

Answer 3

i lost 15 pounds in the first week.

Answer 4

I'm not a vegan, but a vegetarian. I noticed it had a HUGE impact on my menstrual cycle.

When I was in college, I ate out a lot. However, the area was big into healthy food. I ate meat about once a week. My periods were normal. When I graduated and moved, I still kept the habit of eating out. However, with the lack of vegetarian/healthy options, I ate meat every day and every meal. I became sluggish and felt horrible after 6 months. My periods were so sever I had to buy heating pads and take tylonal. As a result, I stopped eating it all together. I replaced the meat with fresh foods and beans. Within 2 months, all those problems went away. It was awesome.

Answer 5

Lime Kitty, veg*an means both vegan and vegetarian, just so you know :)

All my headaches and migrains greatly improved and soon went away after about 1 month. My energy and stamina improved, I noticed I became not so grumpy anymore, my skin improved, and I'm invisible to the common cold!

I never get sick anymore! :)

I would consider myself a strict vegetarian. I dont comsume dairy (from a cow), eggs, etc... rarely though I will drink or prepare foods with goat milk, but not often.

Answer 6

I didnt become totally Veg-just gave up red meat but I lost 10 pounds in about 3 weeks! And my blood pressure went down! Sadly I love my yard bird-gotta have it.

Happy Eatin!

Answer 7

I didn't have any health problems going into becoming vegan, and I was already lacto-ovo-vegetarian for a few years beforehand, so there wasn't really any health problems to change in my case.

Probably the most notable difference was that I became a much better jogger and really improved my run times (I was in the military) but I would place that not as a miraculous side effect of being vegan, but because suddenly I wasn't eating eggs and cheese and milk for breakfast, but rather whole grains and fresh fruit instead, making me have quicker, more digestible, easily accessed energy for the morning fitness routines we'd go through.

It's certainly possible to experience benefits though - weight loss, a dramatic reduction in cholesterol levels and blood pressure levels - but it's not just because you've cut out food that's high in animal fat, but also because you've replaced it with low-fat, high-quality alternatives, like fresh fruit, whole grains, vegetables, nuts and seeds, beans and legumes.

Research clearly supports that increasing your plant protein intake, decreasing animal protein intake and dramatically increasing fruit and vegetable intake will have numerous, long-lasting health benefits.

However, you needn't even go vegan to enjoy those benefits - any shift in focus towards a more plant-based diet is beneficial. :) And as a vegan, I appreciate any reduction in meat-eating as well.

I am strict with my diet though since it's more than a diet - the word diet doesn't even encompass what being vegan means to me. The environmental benefits, the moral and ethical considerations that go into play... those all make it much more than just a diet to me. Some people treat it like one, but that's foolish, usually just an attempt to lose weight. It reminds me of a girl that was in boot camp with me that said she went into boot camp in the US Army hoping she'd lose a few pounds... O_o How diet obsessed are we, right? :) Being vegan is much more than just food and diet.