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Originally Posted by L0stMind
No sir, you are very wrong. I firmly believe that "healthy" vegetarians are not the majority. Heck, I know of two vegetarians who after being veggie for many years were told by their doctors to start eating meat again or to visit a dietitian to correct their deficiencies.
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I agree....I'll tell ya a quick story. I started slacking off on eating a balance meal (without realizing). Sure it was incredibly healthy meals, but i wasn't paying attention to what was LACKING in the meals. And i usually do which makes it worse..lol
So one day i woke up extremely depressed. And i mean, serious impending doom. The kind of doom that can't even be explained. I have never experienced anything like this before...and I couldn't figure it out. I didn't want to go to the doctor cause i know they would just put me on some bullshit antidepressant medication and call it a day. And i knew i wasn't depressed. So the doctor was the last course of action for me.
So we stepped back and thought about it....ok, what causes the body to make these kinds of drastic changes? I mean, common sense stuff, right? Stuff like stress, diet, etc etc. After running through it all, we narrowed it down to my diet. I wrote everything down, everything i ate from the past week (to the best of my memory) and it turned out that that week i ate more veggies and carbs and not enough protein to slow the sugar conversion. Basically, I was putting my pancreas on overdrive and making it work harder.
I immediately slammed a protein drink, made some egg whites, etc etc.
I swear to god, within 5 fucking minutes of the protein drink, before even getting to eating the egg whites, the 'impending doom depression' literally melted away. I FELT it leave. I couldn't believe it.
So yes, you can really fuck yourself up. It was a real tough lesson to learn. One that could have had serious consequences if we didn't figure it out.
I blame myself though...like everything else the answer is simple...BALANCE. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most simple rules to forget.