Ask A Vegan Anything.

[BGChuckLee]

Howdy ya'll- I was wondering if any of you guys had questions about being vegan or vegetarian. Now is your time to ask.

(I have been vegan for 2 years, I eat an extremely high carb/low fat diet.

My daily diet is something like:
5-15 bananas
A kilo of rice
Vegetable Curry or Stew
2 litres of Orange Juice
2 litres of banana/berry smoothie
10-20 dates
Half a Pineapple

Which is about 3000-5000 calories.

This is an extremely unhealthy diet.
I suspect there are more calories in a kilo of rice than 5000, especially if you're talking white rice which doesn't have the fiber benefits of brown rice.
That many bananas can cause a potassium overload in your system which I believe shuts down your kidneys (or is it the liver? I can never remember, but neither is good), so you might want to cut back on those a bit. Not to mention bananas can cause constipation, so if you are eating white rice and this many bananas, do you ever poo? Perhaps the dates help with that, but then you're just eating the dates to keep yourself regular instead of eating a healthy balanced diet (vegan or not).
And that's a shit-ton of juice, which is really nothing but sugar.
Welcome, you have diabetes, or will have if you continue to eat like this. And when you get a wee bit older and your metabolism gives out, well, then you'll be fat too. Certainly something to brag about.

Some times I mix it up a bit, between brown and white. I am trying to reduce my rice intake, and more glucose rich carbs like fruit.

When is it too much potassium? I read, you would need to eat 1000 bananas in 10 minutes to die from too much potassium. Since potassium is excreted through urine whenever there is too much.

Why would bananas cause constipation? they are extremely high in fibre in it's own right. I go toilet 3-4 times a day.

Sugar is good for you, if you want high performance you need high energy. My blood tests has shown I have healthy blood sugar.

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What was your diet like though?

Mainly vegetable stews and self baked stuff.


Occasionaly I bought some soja milk and could eat more.
I always tried to make as many products as possible myself out of soja.
Fruit was a main part of my diet before Becoming vegan and even before becoming vegeterian. And now that I am no longer both of them I still eat alot of fruit.

I guess the biggest impact on my diet today was that I still only eat meat maybe once a week.

And I guess I became a better cook through it.

Well, if you are eating high quantities of fruit, and low amount of meat, you should be doing well. As long as you keep it low, which you are. Personally I love eating, and can not eat small at all- love feasting every meal.