#milk

I was vegan for five years during my early twenties. Though I suppose, given that the reason for my veganism actually had nothing to do with not wanting to eat animals, "plant based" might be a more accurate label for what I was. Prior to that I was pescatarian, then veggie.

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These days I'm neither vegan, vegetarian, or pescatarian, and there are a bunch of reasons why that is. The main one being that eating a strictly plant-based diet made my already rather disordered relationship with food much, much worse.

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Another reason why the diet became unsustainable for me is because I also like to travel, and when I go somewhere new, I like to be able to experience the culture as much as I can-- including the food. Being plant based made that very difficult and sometimes even impossible, depending where I was.

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Also, selfishly? I just missed a lot of the foods I used to enjoy. Eggs, real cheese, milk chocolate... Plant-based replacements just weren't cutting it for me.

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In the end I just sort of reached the conclusion that my diet was making me sick, tired, and needlessly miserable. So I started steadily introducing animal products back in. I didn't start eating red meat again until earlier this year though, after I was diagnosed with an iron deficiency and advised to either go on supplements or change my diet.

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I suck at remembering to take pills, so changing my diet seemed the logical choice. 😅🤷‍♀️

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