On Sept 14th-
“Charlies supplement stack and a vegan diet is saving my life. When I first started this I would get awful nausea and liver pain. Now it’s reducing.”
On Sept 20th-
“I had lamb today and I feel so depressed. I didn’t realise red meat actually makes you feel so depressed.”
If you really think a vegan diet was “saving your life,” why would you eat lamb a week later? A vegan diet means no animal products of any kind. No meat, milk, eggs, gelatin, nada. Even honey might be off the table. Vegetarians, on the other hand, often incorporate milk and eggs.
You simply can’t be a vegan if you eat meat every so often. Of course, you don’t have to eat according to anyone else’s definitions, either. You could eat plant based most of the time, and eat some animal foods or meat once a week, once a month, or on whatever frequency you choose. But don’t call yourself a vegan, because that’s not what a vegan is.
Of course, if you do choose to eat meat on a very infrequent basis, it would also be wise to keep the serving of meat very small when you do eat, or ramp it up. If you eat nothing but plants for a month, and then decide to chow down on a 20 oz porterhouse, yeah, the sheer amount and shock to the system might be bad. But, if you instead opt for 1-2 oz of meat, your body might handle it fine. If you eat meat on a more regular basis (say, 2-3 times a week), my guess is that your body would ramp up appropriate enzymes and such after a week or so, and you could regularly handle meat with no physiological issues after a month or so.
Also, I think you might be setting yourself up for feeling bad anytime you do eat meat (which seems to be quite often for an aspiring vegan). Maybe the reason you feel so horrible every time you eat meat is that you are making yourself feel horrible, basically beating yourself up every time you break one of your own rules. It might not have anything to do with your body’s physiology, or your body’s biological reactions to eating meat, but all about your mental perception about eating meat. This could easily drive you crazy on it’s own.
Basically, if you convince yourself that you’ll feel terrible any time you eat meat, you will find some way to make yourself feel terrible when you eat meat.
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