Well my vegan diet experiment didn't work out. I reverted back to meat and dairy products, after a number of days of not feeling right, feeling run down, having headaches and skin issues. I feel a bit lame for not finishing the trial, but making sure one's health is right is more important. It wasn't working out.



Perhaps as I am type 1, a vegan diet isn't right for me. The book I was using was promoting it for type 2 primarily, although it did say type 1 would benefit too. But for… Continue

No meat today, had a mix of tofu roll and spagetti for dinner. Went to gym, weighed 86.40 afterwards. So I've lost just under 2kg since I started, a week and a half ago. Not bad.

Things have been going well, however the vegan diet has been making me feel tired and run down. Maybe due to the flu that has been going round, I have a bit of that perhaps. Also I had very low blood sugar the other night, which woke me up at 3am and caused me to eat cereal then (which woke up the dog, which made me feel guilty). In any case, my wife cooked me a small portion of chicken tonight and so I felt obliged to eat it - for the protein you see. So I guess my trial kind of failed at that… Continue

Still on track. Towards the end of the week I was feeling like I miss some things: like milk in my tea, cheese in my sandwich, peanut butter on my toast. I guess this is natural. On the meat side though, I haven't really missed eating meats. Facon was pretty ho-hum tbh, but it's not like I'm craving meats.



I do think that being totally strict and obsessive about being vegan isn't going to be sustainable to me long term - e.g. worrying about egg traces in my wine, or punishing myself… Continue

The usual oatmeal and cinnamon (ran out of bananas) for brekkie. For lunch had baked beans on rye toast, followed by some kiwifruits. Had a soya latte in the arvo and for dinner had 'facon' (fake bacon) in tortilla wrap with salad and vege.

Thinking today that don't want to be too obsessive about things, e.g. most red wines I've come across are 'fined' with egg and "traces may remain". I bought some wine anyway today, I think some traces is ok with me.