For the last couple of years (perhaps almost the last decade? (I'm 30)) my brain has felt like I've been racing to some downhill finish line. I remember back in high school and university (at the start of it that is) I was thankfully good in math, I loved it because it clicked mentally for me, economics (in university) in turn also clicked with the graphical understanding of the different theories and such. At some point however, and I remember roughly when it occurred, everything just stopped making sense and I felt that section of my brain that understood it all was NOT inaccessible so much as not there anymore.
When I got into university, my family traveled back to our home country and I stayed behind. When I lived with my family, the food STILL wasn't healthy but at least I wasn't eating fast food every day. In fact I had this ridiculous diet of eating only twice a week and just drinking my meals for the rest (which was just water, not juice or anything). The food I ate was indeed fast food but...at least not daily (lol)? When I started living by myself, I just binged fast food and the order of the day was KFC. I always had an indoor life but I think I probably saw a bit more of the outside then than I did later (so Vitamin D and all that). Vegetables and fruits were a rarity, I think the only vegetables I had were just whatever had been hastily crammed in a burger.
Recently though I've been trying to do some writing and to go back to my reading habits (I loved reading as a kid), but my mind is sluggish and...asleep? I watched a TED talk that mentioned that some of the hostile foods to the brain were dairy products and meat, I mean I knew fat and grease were bad but I wouldn't have thought dairy products and meat itself could be bad as well. I'm truly passionate about my story, but when it comes time to write, my mind can't even start to work so I comprehend how people think so that I can write them realistically instead of just forcing who they are. My mind is so sluggish it's made it that I don't bother to even think, and just waste my time gaming and watching movies and shows that I don't really care all that much for, and this is not who or what I want to be.
I admit that my choices for going vegan are purely for health reasons, but I would truly appreciate any help or support in that regard. I saw another TED talk that also recommended fasting for a number of benefits, so I'm going to reduce my meals to one a day (though I'm still allowed to drink freely).
I've been thinking to meet my daily needs (on one side note as well, I have G6PD deficiency so almost zero beans, though garbanzo beans/chick peas have thankfully never affected me):
Quinoa for protein (though dear God do I hate how they taste)
Lots of blueberries
1 cup garbanzo beans
palm's worth of nuts (saw that in the same TED talk)
omega 3 supplement
Maybe a b12 supplement too (unless I find out some ill health effect with them, like vitamin C supplements)
???? for vegetables (need help on this one, I have a child's tolerance for vegetables. I can't stand the bitter taste of rocket leaves for example that other salad aficionados adore, and I don't mind cauliflower or broccoli so much other than my fear of kidney stones (which I hear are so painful that it allows men to have an understanding of what childbirth is like), it's also why I'll no longer touch spinach)
In case the transition thread is one that tends to get ignored by forum goers (I usually ignore introduction sections on forums myself), I'll post my thoughts on my diet in a separate post in a different section.
When I got into university, my family traveled back to our home country and I stayed behind. When I lived with my family, the food STILL wasn't healthy but at least I wasn't eating fast food every day. In fact I had this ridiculous diet of eating only twice a week and just drinking my meals for the rest (which was just water, not juice or anything). The food I ate was indeed fast food but...at least not daily (lol)? When I started living by myself, I just binged fast food and the order of the day was KFC. I always had an indoor life but I think I probably saw a bit more of the outside then than I did later (so Vitamin D and all that). Vegetables and fruits were a rarity, I think the only vegetables I had were just whatever had been hastily crammed in a burger.
Recently though I've been trying to do some writing and to go back to my reading habits (I loved reading as a kid), but my mind is sluggish and...asleep? I watched a TED talk that mentioned that some of the hostile foods to the brain were dairy products and meat, I mean I knew fat and grease were bad but I wouldn't have thought dairy products and meat itself could be bad as well. I'm truly passionate about my story, but when it comes time to write, my mind can't even start to work so I comprehend how people think so that I can write them realistically instead of just forcing who they are. My mind is so sluggish it's made it that I don't bother to even think, and just waste my time gaming and watching movies and shows that I don't really care all that much for, and this is not who or what I want to be.
I admit that my choices for going vegan are purely for health reasons, but I would truly appreciate any help or support in that regard. I saw another TED talk that also recommended fasting for a number of benefits, so I'm going to reduce my meals to one a day (though I'm still allowed to drink freely).
I've been thinking to meet my daily needs (on one side note as well, I have G6PD deficiency so almost zero beans, though garbanzo beans/chick peas have thankfully never affected me):
Quinoa for protein (though dear God do I hate how they taste)
Lots of blueberries
1 cup garbanzo beans
palm's worth of nuts (saw that in the same TED talk)
omega 3 supplement
Maybe a b12 supplement too (unless I find out some ill health effect with them, like vitamin C supplements)
???? for vegetables (need help on this one, I have a child's tolerance for vegetables. I can't stand the bitter taste of rocket leaves for example that other salad aficionados adore, and I don't mind cauliflower or broccoli so much other than my fear of kidney stones (which I hear are so painful that it allows men to have an understanding of what childbirth is like), it's also why I'll no longer touch spinach)
In case the transition thread is one that tends to get ignored by forum goers (I usually ignore introduction sections on forums myself), I'll post my thoughts on my diet in a separate post in a different section.