A month of eating meat

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

It's a month since I gave up being vegetarian, and I feel so much better! From constant pins and needles, to only sometimes but still every day took a couple of days, and then from about a week in, I've had nothing like that. My legs hurting so much I cried myself to sleep went straight I started eating meat; within a day, my legs didn't hurt. My sleep pattern has gone from 2 nights of 5 hour and 1 of 8 to mostly 8 hours sleep a night, and I'm associatedly less exhausted, dizzy etc.

Apparently - and this is something I didn't really internalise at the time - most vegetarians don't have constant pins and needles/numbness. I'tsn ot just that I'm a wuss, it really was unhealthy.

I even managed to have a day or two of no meat without sliding back, so I'm hopeful that I'll be OK to go back to how I was before (although even before I ever went vegetarian, when I ate meat most days, I was starting to choose vegetarian by default when eating out etc, and I have three vegetarian partners, so it's easier to make family meals mostly veggies).

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ooh. There is a thing called pernicious anaemia where you can't absorb vitamin B12 properly so only a fraction of what you eat gets in. It's a thing that just happens to people. My grandmother had it. Supplements might have been too compact for much of the contents of the tablet to get absorbed. It is worth getting tested...they do one blood test and tell you a couple of weeks after, I had it done because it's a little bit genetic.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It's an anaemia because B12 is then needed to absorb iron or something, I think.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. That might be what I have, but actually I'm OK with 'eat bacon instead of halloumi for breakdast' as a cure.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd always wondered why oral supplements don't work (um ... though obviously not enough to Google it). That makes sense.