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Sounds like you have anxiety surrounding meat really. Maybe I was lucky but I really had absolutely no problem. I felt a slightly worse for the first little while (just more tired but found it harder to sleep.. that kind of thing) but I picked up pretty soon and started being healthier than I had been before being veggie/vegan.Quote:
Originally Posted by _HeyyitsHannah_
It's not anxiety lol. I really do get that sick aha. It's like i've ended up with food poisoning. I think you were just lucky ahaha. I don't think I'd ever be able to go back to meat without a doctor's help. I don't know how you did it. lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Empired
It's not food poisoning if people eating even more of the same thing don't have a problem with it. It sounds like you've developed an intolerance or just an idea in your head that meat makes you sick and now it's almost like a placebo or somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by _HeyyitsHannah_
Big news guys! I had my first bit of protein in years last night lool. I was making my mum a pasta salad, with pasta, tuna, sweetcorn and red onion. Tried some of the tuna that was left in the bowl after putting it in the plastic tubs for her lunches this week. I haven't died yet!
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How long have you been a vegetarian?Quote:
Originally Posted by _HeyyitsHannah_
I know it's not food poisoning :P But it's symptoms like food poisoning. I've read it's either fine or bad for some people. I guess it just depends on the person and the type of meat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil
Just a few years now. Not for too long but long enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamez
Omg I completely forgot about the possibility of trying fish first. Congrats on your protein progress James xxxxQuote:
Originally Posted by Jamez
I have always said I eat fish (Pescitarian) but I haven't in the past year or so because I didn't trust my dads oven as it was really dodgy. We have fish fingers in the freezer so I'll probably go back to them first as it won't be as big of a shock to me. then I'll go onto like.. ham etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Empired
I would say I have a less extreme case of this. I don't particularly limit what I eat but if I take a bite of something and it is in some way 'not perfect' either seems a bit undercooked or I feel it tastes slightly off then I won't eat it. The worst for me is food other people make (with the exception of my parents who I trust not to poison me!) I like to eat out or get a takeaway but I'm always concerned about unhygienic cutlery/crockery and it making me ill, or worse, actually being sick. If I eat out or get a takeaway I feel social pressure to eat, particularly if somebody else paid. I always count ahead after I've eaten to six hours when in my head I'm convinced if the food would make me sick it would have done so by then, which sounds silly but I've done it for as long as I can remember. I don't tell my family about the counting because I get enough stick for my paranoid eating habits.
I don't drink. When I was 18, 19-ish I'd go out with friends and have one alcopop and that's it. I've never even been slightly tipsy through the fear of being sick.
I'd actually managed to convince myself that I can't be sick in the sense that I will not let myself be sick even if I can feel it about to happen. I had a very severe vomiting bug as I child which I think terrified me. In recent times I hadn't been sick for 4 years, and that was only from being nil by mouth in the hospital, so I didn't count that as being 'ill.' Before then I can't pinpoint a specific time in my life or a year where I was sick from being ill. Until a few weeks ago where I had dreadful flu and I actually got sick. It was terrifying right before it happened but now I feel I'm almost not so scared; I still hate feeling sick but it's almost like my adult brain has rationalised a little so it's a tiny bit less scary. So maybe I was somewhat scarred from my ordeal as a child.
I'm convinced a lot of the time that I'm going to be sick, even with just a mild stomach ache and everybody tells me it's in my head. I'm almost 22 and still the only person who can calm me down and get me thinking straight once I get myself in a state is my mum. It's very frustrating because you want to live an adult life and not rely on your parents but I've felt held back by my sickness paranoia since a young teenager.
I don't know how to make it any better; I know I will always wash my hands before eating (even though the ladies' room is in the other building a work!) and then sanitise my hands with an anti-bacterial gel. I know I will always be picky about what I eat and then paranoid for hours after. All I can suggest is to keep going with getting used to eating red meat and fish, a little bit at a time. Hope it starts to get better for you :)
I'm exactly the same about counting the hours afterwards & paranoia about 'public utensils'. I haven't eaten at a restaurant for about 8 years because of it. & Whenever I try something new, or try to reintroduce something back into my diet, I only ever do it on days where I am doing nothing the next day, as I usually get ill the following morning if I do get ill from it. Then obviously I'd feel crap for the rest of the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charz777
Nothing planned this weekend so going to be trying some fish fingers again tomorrow (Saturday) so if I do get ill, it won't matter too much.
This sounds like when I used to have a huge fear of being stung by a wasp :P I hadn't been stung for one since I was about 9 and I just remember it being the worst thing in the world so I used to completely freeze whenever something buzzy came near me and would actually have panic attacks to the point where I'd be like crying and shaking uncontrollably and my mum always just told me to man up :( But I got stung by a wasp last year despite trying to run away from it and it was painful but not nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be. And now my fear is completely gone! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Charz777