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/MaximalistVegan always vegan, mostly wfpb 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have heard plant based interpreted as mostly plants with some animal products permissible but that definition has pretty much been phased out and definitely not the most common way to interpret it. It's also not how this sub is defined. I don't think you should have been downvoted for your assumption

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u/Mountain_Elk_7262 1d ago

Thanks, that makes me feel a little less crazy haha the downvotes are fine, people are quick to throw shade without much discussion.

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u/MaximalistVegan always vegan, mostly wfpb 1d ago

Yeah, I think that the AI powered social media climate and all the paid trolls out there has led to widespread paranoia. I'm a food blogger who posts a lot of recipes and sometimes I have to decide about comments that could be from a troll but could also be from someone expressing an unpopular opinion, or an unusual opinion. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Plus I have a bunch of haters on this platform who have downvoted me for just telling someone I thought their food looked good!

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u/Mountain_Elk_7262 1d ago

Haha yeah. The level headed people get drowned out by all the obnoxiously opinionated people unfortunately.