Quote from: dee82 on December 05, 2018, 12:21:38 AM
I am halfway between vegetarian and vegan. (Think of a vegan who cheats by having eggs and dairy milk chocolate on occasion). Been that way for about 18 years.
Yes, I do take a B12 supplement at least once a week, but have never had problems with lack of protein or iron deficiency. Given those are the two areas that meat is meant to be so essential for, it is clearly possible to get enough through other sources.
Until I started this transitioning trip, I never went to the doctors because I had no reason too.
Not saying you don't need to be informed about what a good balanced vegetarian/vegan diet requires, but I am not a fanatic about food and haven't found it very hard to do.
~Dee.
Humans were designed to be omnivores, which means, our diet should be a combination of plant and animal based nutrients.
If we eliminate the animal protein, and partly fat, portion of our diet, we have to make sure to have appropriate supplements available. In general, a vegan diet is not really healthy (any dietitian can tell you that), and for proper brain development, we nee to eat a certain amount of red meat.
Eating eggs and milk products, may be enough to fill the amount of animal protein one eats, but the red meat component is still missing. (one does not need much of it).
The problem with Reagan diet is that our body will not treat most supplements like the "real" thing, and partially will not process them at all (no matter what the advertising promises, as long as the supplement is not FDA registered, they can promise the gold pot at the end of the rainbow).
I am not a big meat eater, I source most of my animal protein from fish. I eat fish every day of the week, and supplement it once in a while with a lean steak (for the read meat component). My diet consists mostly of fish and vegies, hardly any pasta, potato or rice. I eat some whole grain bread to get enough carbohydrates of a complex nature into my system.
Talking about no pain in the breast since starting a vegan diet, could be that the body has not enough nutrients to keep the growing of the breast going. A cis woman whose body is fully developed, would have different nutrition requirements than the body of a trans woman. The body of the trans woman might still be developing the more female attributes (fat depositions), and might still require the nutrition amounts of a male body.
I, for one, would be pretty reluctant to eliminate animal protein and fatty acids from my diet!
