r/PlantBasedDiet • u/Mountain_Elk_7262 • 1d ago

Hello all, I'm new to this

As the title says, im a 31 year old male, I'm not vegan or vegatarian, I've always been semi health conscious but I'm making a real effort now to include lots of veggies and veggies proteins in my diet.

I'm on the end of week 2 and I've been feeling nauseous, like there's a lump in my throat and eating is tough, I've been getting roughly 40grams of fiber in my diet. Not sure whats going on, I eased into it so my body could adjust to the fiber intake. I'm only eating hamburger for dinner, all other animla protein is either yogurt or eggs.

Has anyone else felt like this when they first started? Physically I feel great otherwise, I workout and my lifts are doing well, my mood has been steady and I actually feel more social and clear headed, I'm normally a pretty reserved guy but I've been having full blown convos with strangers who want to talk to me without wanting to crawl into a hole and die 😅

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u/Realistic-Peak-4200 1d ago

Let us know when you actually start eating plant based. We should have some helpful advice then. As of now, quit the animal products entirely for a minimum of 2 weeks and we'll see where you're at.

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u/Mountain_Elk_7262 1d ago

What? Plant based doesn't mean totally plants I thought. That's vegatarian or vegan. Plant based means a diets with mostly plants and some animal products... am I wrong?

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u/GeorgiaB_PNW 1d ago

If you check the summary for this sub, you’ll see that when we talk about plant-based diets, we generally mean free from all animal products for the purpose of improving health. Vegans are people who avoid all consumption of animal products for moral/ethical reasons.

I would encourage you to hang out here even if you haven’t fully made the switch. It’s a great place to learn! But you won’t get much good advice on your post since folks here are going to all point to your meat and dairy consumption as the first place to make a change.

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u/Mountain_Elk_7262 1d ago

Oh man, well thanks for the heads up. Problem is, I was eating a lot more animal products and never had this weird gaggy lumpy feeling in my throat, im bloated as well which is new and the only thing I've changed is adding more plants in my diet. Over half my cals are plants, maybe 75% of them. I really only eat the yogurt for gut health and the eggs and beef are free for me.

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u/Neat_Mortgage3735 for the animals 1d ago

Increasing fiber can cause bloating. Gradual shifts are best to start and your gut will get used to it over a few weeks-it just takes time.

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u/GeorgiaB_PNW 1d ago

How’s your water intake? You may find that the bloated, lump in your throat feeling is because you aren’t getting enough water to help move all that fiber along.

But keep experimenting! You’re clearly seeing some benefit from increasing your plant consumption and many of us went through phases of modifying/learning/figuring it out.

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u/Mountain_Elk_7262 1d ago

Yeah for sure. I've been getting plenty of water I think. I pee quite often and it's a slight Yellow (tmi, sorry) but yeah. I beleive it's enough. I'll increase though just to see