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hi, all!
i know this isn't probably going to get an incredible amount of positivity, but i am having a really hard time and wanted the opinions of vegs or others who have gone through something similar.
i've been vegetarian/vegan since i was 5 years old (17 years strong). i absolutely hate the idea of eating another living being and as soon as i found out what meat was at 5 years old, i couldn't eat it.
a few years ago, i was extremely sick and nearly died. now my immune system is all sorts of fucked up. i have a list of 100+ foods i'm allergic to or intolerant to. some of them include (in order of most severe to least severe): sesame, walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts, all other nuts, wheat, corn, peas, yeast, a ton of different vegetables, soy, beans, quinoa, + dozens of other foods.
i gained 20 pounds strictly from inflammation in 1 month after eating less than 100 calories a day. i'm getting sicker from how i'm eating and it's making me weaker and get more flares of my health and causing my migraines to get more frequent and severe. on top of this, i literally cannot afford this way of living. my groceries are about 800 dollars a month because i am so limited and have to eat everything organic and unprocessed.
the nutritionist i'm going to gave me several options, but all the evidence-based veg diet plans she has shown me and that i've found online are pretty much impossible for me to eat considering i'm allergic to over half of the foods on the plans.
at this point, the only feasible diet that will help me heal will include meat and logically i know there are no other options. hopefully, i would only have to eat meat for 6 months to a year while my body healed. has anyone ever encountered this kind of issue where their ethics kinda slapped them in the face and they had to put their health first?
please don't tell me other ways to eat veg. i promise you 1000000% percent i have exhausted my resources and tried every possible way of eating already and i'm really tired of getting guilted by my vegan friends who told me to put the animals first and see every specialist and try every diet first and that i'm not trying hard enough and that my debilitating health conditions aren't reason to ever eat meat and are just minor "annoyances". i already have and seeing second and third opinions is f***ing expensive and my body can't tolerate the lack of nutrients any longer.
is my health important enough?
i know this isn't probably going to get an incredible amount of positivity, but i am having a really hard time and wanted the opinions of vegs or others who have gone through something similar.
i've been vegetarian/vegan since i was 5 years old (17 years strong). i absolutely hate the idea of eating another living being and as soon as i found out what meat was at 5 years old, i couldn't eat it.
a few years ago, i was extremely sick and nearly died. now my immune system is all sorts of fucked up. i have a list of 100+ foods i'm allergic to or intolerant to. some of them include (in order of most severe to least severe): sesame, walnuts, pecans, brazil nuts, all other nuts, wheat, corn, peas, yeast, a ton of different vegetables, soy, beans, quinoa, + dozens of other foods.
i gained 20 pounds strictly from inflammation in 1 month after eating less than 100 calories a day. i'm getting sicker from how i'm eating and it's making me weaker and get more flares of my health and causing my migraines to get more frequent and severe. on top of this, i literally cannot afford this way of living. my groceries are about 800 dollars a month because i am so limited and have to eat everything organic and unprocessed.
the nutritionist i'm going to gave me several options, but all the evidence-based veg diet plans she has shown me and that i've found online are pretty much impossible for me to eat considering i'm allergic to over half of the foods on the plans.
at this point, the only feasible diet that will help me heal will include meat and logically i know there are no other options. hopefully, i would only have to eat meat for 6 months to a year while my body healed. has anyone ever encountered this kind of issue where their ethics kinda slapped them in the face and they had to put their health first?
please don't tell me other ways to eat veg. i promise you 1000000% percent i have exhausted my resources and tried every possible way of eating already and i'm really tired of getting guilted by my vegan friends who told me to put the animals first and see every specialist and try every diet first and that i'm not trying hard enough and that my debilitating health conditions aren't reason to ever eat meat and are just minor "annoyances". i already have and seeing second and third opinions is f***ing expensive and my body can't tolerate the lack of nutrients any longer.
is my health important enough?