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).

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[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Fwiw, as someone you don't know from Adam, I was veggie for 15 years before getting pregnant, wherupon I found that *for me* I needed to add meat into my diet for the next approx 4-5 years during which I was either pregnant, breastfeeding or both (bf and 2nd pregnancy overlapped.) Baby 2 breastfed til he was 5, but after a couple of years I figured his intake/my output wasn't significant enough to continue to cause me issues, so I cut meat out again, and have been veggie again for the last 5 years. The pregnancy/bf period felt like a discrete period when my body's needs just were different, and then when that wasn't the case any more it was not a problem to return to the previous status quo. I might even have done it sooner, but I have ME which added a complicating factor in terms of energy levels etc. I hope this random anecdata from a stranger is of some help/comfort/interest to you, and I hope everything goes brilliantly for you :-)