Ask A Vegan Anything.

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I use to be a vegan for one year and a vegitarian for 3.




Sooner or later one takes notice of how silly it is.

[Brian37]

Chuck, coming from someone who tried and failed as a kid to "fit in" and "stand out" and was miserable in doing such, that is what you are doing here. You are seeking attention. I would suggest you simply live your life, know yourself, and be yourself.

Someone, be it family or friends screwed you up emotionally, otherwise you would not be here trying to demonstrate to the rest of us who you are. The bottom line is people ultimately will like you or they wont. The will agree with you or they wont.

I personally want you to stay, not because I like you, right now I don't. But I do see what I was in you and I know it will do you no good.

There are 7 billion of us. Evolution was around before any of us were born, and it will continue way after all of us are gone.

[CapnAwesome]

How do you live with no protein? None of that seems to have protein in it. Seems kind of...made up.

[Brian37]

I use to be a vegan for one year and a vegitarian for 3.




Sooner or later one takes notice of how silly it is.

I wouldn't say it is silly, it is only silly when you project that on a species that evolved as omnivores. If one doesn't want to eat animals or use animal products, fine, just don't go Jihad on the rest of us.

[BGChuckLee]

I use to be a vegan for one year and a vegitarian for 3.




Sooner or later one takes notice of how silly it is.

What was your diet like though?

Chuck, coming from someone who tried and failed as a kid to "fit in" and "stand out" and was miserable in doing such, that is what you are doing here. You are seeking attention. I would suggest you simply live your life, know yourself, and be yourself.

Someone, be it family or friends screwed you up emotionally, otherwise you would not be here trying to demonstrate to the rest of us who you are. The bottom line is people ultimately will like you or they wont. The will agree with you or they wont.

I personally want you to stay, not because I like you, right now I don't. But I do see what I was in you and I know it will do you no good.

There are 7 billion of us. Evolution was around before any of us were born, and it will continue way after all of us are gone.

Do you have any questions on topic?

[Brian37]

How do you live with no protein? None of that seems to have protein in it. Seems kind of...made up.

Nuts have protein so do soy supplement drinks such as Ensure and Boost. The question is how does the lack of animal protein affect an individual. I'd say it affects people differently. Some bodies can and do live without it, and other genetic dispositions might make it unwise to do such.

[BGChuckLee]

How do you live with no protein? None of that seems to have protein in it. Seems kind of...made up.

Well, all foods have protein- there's no food source that doesn't have protein. Most fruits have around 4% of calories from protein, vegetables higher, grains and nuts even higher. Part of the reason why I don't meat/dairy is so I don't get too much.

The world health organization came out and said that you need 2.5-5% of calories from protein, in the 70s. I try and get 80/10/10 80% carbs, 10% fat, 10% protein from my calories.

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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.

[CapnAwesome]

How do you live with no protein? None of that seems to have protein in it. Seems kind of...made up.

Nuts have protein so do soy supplement drinks such as Ensure and Boost. The question is how does the lack of animal protein affect an individual. I'd say it affects people differently. Some bodies can and do live without it, and other genetic dispositions might make it unwise to do such.

No shit sherlock, but posted his diet above, and it didn't have nuts or protein supplements in it.

[festive1]

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.