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It\u2019s not Friday! But I\u2019m doing my Q & A today anyway because this was an important one.\u00a0 This is a topic that I\u2019ve been avoiding since I\u2019ve been blogging (10+ years on this site). Why have I been avoiding it? Because it\u2019s so emotionally charged and so controversial and I didn\u2019t want to isolate anyone. However, I\u2019ve been getting many, many emails and comments about this topic lately so I realized that it was time for me to tell my story. This email came through the other day and it felt important to answer sooner rather than later.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dear Leora,<\/span><\/div>\n
I have been in recovery for a few months (seeing a therapist). Within that time frame I watched a documentary that turned me\u00a0vegan<\/span>\u00a0overnight. I am now realizing that it is feeling very restrictive and socially affecting my life. From the advice of my therapist, she said that it\u2019s only fueling my fire with my obsession with food and having to prep and to focus on it more than i should be right now, and I agreed. So a couple days ago I decided to incorporate meat and dairy back into my diet. I feel so guilty about eating the animals as I became\u00a0vegan<\/span>\u00a0only for ethical reason. I feeling very conflicted about what I should do. I like the feeling of not worrying about what I\u2019m eating but I now know how the animals were killed so that I can eat them and it\u2019s messing with my head!!! The food almost grosses me out but I eat it anyway, and it does taste good. It\u2019s hard turning a blind eye though and pretending I don\u2019t care. Any advice on this topic or do u know anyone else who\u2019s been through this?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Best Wishes, Kathryn (Minnesota)<\/span><\/div>\n
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My Answer to Kathryn.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Hi Kathryn,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thank you so much for this very important question. Believe it or not, I have\u00a0extreme<\/strong>\u00a0personal experience with this one. I was raised vegetarian from age 10 and turned strict\u00a0vegan<\/span>\u00a0on my own at the age of 20. Being vegetarian and\u00a0vegan<\/span>\u00a0were extreme ethical decisions for me. I was a member of LEAP (\u00a0league of environmental and animal protection) for my\u00a0high school\u2019s chapter (LEAP was the late 80\u2019s version of PETA-).<\/span><\/div>\n
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I turned vegetarian the summer of 1984.\u00a0 I had always been extremely sensitive and never liked the idea of meat and where it came from. Due to my family and my upbringing, I was also a child who felt overwhelmed by food and my fear of fat.\u00a0 That summer, in camp, my counselor Betsy was a vegetarian.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I didn\u2019t know any strict vegetarians back then. It seemed exotic and cool and I really admired Betsy. She ate the mashed potatoes off the top of the Shepherd\u2019s Pie,\u00a0 dined on salads and carrot sticks while the rest of us were chowing down on bug juice and Kosher hot dogs, and chewed on apples while the rest of us ate ice cream and brownies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Betsy\u00a0was quiet and kind and seemed almost ethereal, like you could see through her. These were all things I admired and wanted to be. I wanted to float through life without necessarily having to solidly be in life. Looking back it was probably a combination of my fear of being noticed coupled with my fear of not being noticed. I thought that if I didn\u2019t eat meat anymore, I could embody Betsy. I would be sweet, kind, sort of float through space and time and I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about choosing what foods to eat because my choices would be inherently limited. It seemed like a win-win situation.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So that August, when I came home from summer camp, I announced to my mother that I wanted to be a vegetarian.\u00a0\u00a0As you might know from previous posts, my mother was extremely restrictive with our food, and she was absolutely thrilled by this.\u00a0 She was already in a spiritual lifestyle (back then they called it \u201cnew age,\u201d) and this fit perfectly for her. She was able to keep both our diets \u201cclean,\u201d and embody the life that she thought she should have.<\/span><\/div>\n
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When I was 28, my mother was\u00a0seemingly the \u201chealthiest\u201d\u00a0person I knew. Her diet was soooooo clean. For the past twenty years, all I\u2019d ever saw her eat was brown rice, tofu, steamed squash, raw vegetables, fruit, mineral water, quinoa, kale (before kale was what kale is now, it was impossible to find back then, we had to travel to a health food store 40 miles away)\u2026. you get my point.\u00a0 She never drank alcohol, never smoked, never did drugs\u2026 her apartment was meticulous, she was perfect\u2026 neat, clean, meditated daily, did yoga like the Maharishi (She\u2019d been doing it since the 1960\u2019s).\u00a0 \u00a0In her early 40\u2019s, she\u00a0was diagnosed\u00a0with\u00a0a rare autoimmune disease called PBC (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis) where the bile ducts destroyed her liver. She died super young (54 years old). And when she was dying, she told me that she thought maybe I should try eating meat. She said \u201cwhat if\u00a0I\u00a0was wrong about all this?\u00a0 I want\u00a0you\u00a0to try it\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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And then my mother died. And I was left depressed and with this ethical dilemma. I hadn\u2019t touched meat or eggs for almost 20 years and hadn\u2019t touched dairy for more than eight years.\u00a0I had principals.<\/em>\u00a0 Being a strict vegan also felt like my identity. I didn\u2019t know what or who I was without my veganism. I know that it might seem strange, but for those of us with eating disorders (and maybe you can relate to this), so much of our identity is tied up in the way we eat or with our eating disorder, or with our body size. But my mother had made a deathbed wish to me (she also asked me to let my hair grow long, but that\u2019s a different story for another post)\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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A\u00a0few months into\u00a0my Mom\u2019s\u00a0death, I was sitting out by the river thinking about what she said.\u00a0\u00a0At that moment, a fish jumped out of the water. Literally jumped. It felt like a sign. I mean, fish don\u2019t jump out of the Hudson River everyday.\u00a0 \u00a0I felt like that fish was saying \u201cit\u2019s okay.\u201d Perhaps I was looking for signs. As we know, when you are looking, you will find.<\/span><\/div>\n
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My boyfriend at the time and I went to a fish restaurant (he was so excited because he was\u00a0very NOT\u00a0vegan<\/span><\/strong>) and we ordered fish. I remember my order. It was a tilapia plain with butter and lemon. I remember eating it with no consequence. No stomach aches, no illness, no bad reaction, nothing.\u00a0 I was nervous because I had read so many accounts of long term vegetarians and vegans eating animal products again and getting sick, but that didn\u2019t happen to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, at this point I just started trying things. Next thing up was pizza. I was ecstatic. Real pizza, with cheese! Not just a cheeseless pizza with sauce and eggplant (there were few options for vegans back then), eggs came next, and then after a few months, chicken, and then red meat. I tried to eat as\u00a0\u00a0ethically as I could (grass fed, organic, etc. which I was\/am privileged to be able to do. I realize that it\u2019s not an option for everyone,)\u00a0 and it was hard for me emotionally but physically lots of things changed. And they changed quickly:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1. When I was vegan,\u00a0 I walked around dizzy all the time. I didn\u2019t really know any difference, I thought that that was just how people felt. However, when I started eating meat, that stopped.<\/span><\/div>\n
2. I had more endurance and I was able to exercise with ease and actually enjoy it. When I was vegan I pushed myself through exercise.<\/span><\/div>\n
3. My anxiety went away.<\/span><\/div>\n
4. My binge eating urges decreased immensely. Almost completely. In fact, I binged\u00a0A LOT<\/strong>\u00a0when I was vegan. A lot a lot a lot.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s partially because my body just wasn\u2019t getting the nutrition that it needed because my diet was so restrictive.<\/span><\/div>\n
5. My concentration levels sharpened.\u00a0 I was able to sail through grad school in a way that I couldn\u2019t in undergrad. Focus and concentration were just so much easier for me.<\/span><\/div>\n
6. I felt more content, my mood improved dramatically.<\/span><\/div>\n
7. And I hesitate to write this, but the truth is that I dropped a significant amount of weight when I stopped being vegan.\u00a0 This won\u2019t necessarily happen for everyone as we all have different body types and needs.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I felt as though my body really needed it, and given how different I felt, it began to make me think that maybe part of science, nature, the food chain, the universe etc, meant for this to be.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I truly believe that we all have different nutritional needs for our bodies.\u00a0 Like animals, some humans do better as herbivores, some do better as omnivores. That\u2019s why it makes me so angry when people make the blanket statement that veganism is the best diet for everyone. For some people it\u2019s fantastic but for some it\u2019s not.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Veganism literally made my body and my mind sick and ineffective.\u00a0 My best advice is to watch your body closely. If you feel that you are not feeling well as a vegan, that your body is not getting what it needs, that you have more urges to binge, that you\u2019re tired more of the time than not, that you\u2019re cold more of the time than not, then try implementing different options.\u00a0 See what a bit of animal products does. If it doesn\u2019t work for you either physically or emotionally, experiment with getting more protein and fat through plant sources.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very difficult line to walk, but you have to find out what is most right for your body.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I know that there is this \u201cvegan glow\u201d that people talk about. I have a hunch that it\u2019s because vegans tend to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables. It\u2019s not so much about what they\u2019re leaving out, but about what they\u2019re taking in. I know for sure that when I was a vegan I had no glow. My skin was dry, my hair was dry,\u00a0 I was tired and hungry and anxious.\u00a0 If I am being perfectly honest with myself, when I look back now, I believe that my vegetarianism and veganism was a \u201clegal\u201d way for me to restrict my food and keep my eating disorder under wraps but still alive. Restricting my food kept me feeling virtuous and honest.\u00a0 Recently someone who I hadn\u2019t seen in\u00a0more than a decade\u00a0told me how great I looked and that I had that \u201cvegan glow.\u201d I said, \u201cfunny because I eat meat and dairy and chocolate and everything now.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Again, I know that this article will anger many people, but I felt that it was important to tell my story and give my personal truth.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean that I believe it\u2019s everybody\u2019s truth, but everybody\u2019s truth is different and it\u2019s up to you to find out what your personal needs really are.\u00a0 Nobody else can tell you this.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Related:<\/span>\u00a0When Someone Promises That They Can Help You Lose Weight, They\u2019re Totally Lying to You.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope that you\u2019ve found this helpful and I appreciate the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Warmly,<\/span><\/div>\n
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