Veggie for the wrong reason?
Ok so basically I used to be a vegan because I had a eating disorder and I wanted to restrict myself as much as possible and if my family and friends knew that I was vegan then they wouldn't question why I wasn't eating. However, I've been in recovery for almost a year and consider myself a vegetarian. I want to become a vegan again but I'm not sure I can do it without falling back into disordered eating. Do you think I should wait longer until I am fully confidient I won't (which may never happen) or take things verrrryyy slowly. I am not in an environment right now were being a vegan would be supported but am working on getting my own place where I can buy all of the vegan food I like. What do you think--should I wait a little longer? Or take things slow?
@coffeelover1218 Hi, coffee. Just as a general problem solving methodology, if things are going pretty well right now, don't make a sudden change that could make things worse. Good luck.
@coffeelover1218 I would consider talking to a therapist and nutritionist before making any changes. Making dietary changes can offset a delicate balance in recovery, so having support and accountability is really vital. Additionally, a therapist may better be able to analyze your potential for sucess and give you feedback in regards to whether or not you should return to a vegan diet.
Wait a bit longer, it's better to be a healthy vegan with the right intentions, there is also this thing called veggan ( I know what you think vegans and I can explain why theres nothing wrong with it at the bottom )
And also if being vegan is not quiet accepted where you live it might put bad pressure on you that in worst case could make you slip into the "wrong intention veganism", so it's okay to not be fully vegan until you have recovered and in a place where it's accepted.
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Now to veggan, why is it nothing wrong with it?
If you buy eggs from a farmer or an industry that 1: Don't buy chickens from industries that kills the male chickens. 2: Gives the chickens the right food. 3: They are allowed to go outside and mostly go inside for the night.
Preferably buy eggs from local farmers, but there are industries that are picky with the chickens rights.
I've seen vegans AGGRESSIVLY preach about these things I will debunk now with farmers own words.
"Chickens wants to eat their own eggs to get back the nutritions it took for them to make it": No, if the chickens get the right food they have no need to eat their eggs.
"Chickens wants to take care of the egg even tough it's not fertilized": No, if they are healthy chickens they have no need to take care of an egg that isn't fertilized and if the egg is left there it might explode in the summer from being to warm or rot and stink, no chicken is happy with stinky eggs in their coop or getting scared from flying eggyolk.
"They want to be free and live in nature, they are not supposed to live in cages": Chickens as we know them today are domesticated, they don't know how to live in the wild, if you would let chickens out in the wild, well theres probably some hungry predators that would be really happy to get a feathery snack.
"Buying chickens supports the bad industries": No, to stop the industries where chickens are treated as egglaying machines, you have to get them out of there. Buy the chickens from the bad industries to your farm and stop them. Don't buy their eggs and save the chickens.
"Chickens don't lay eggs for you to eat": No but they will lay eggs whatever you like it or not and since they don't want to eat them or take care of the unfertilized egg, should you just throw them away? Waste of food, eat the eggs instead.
So if you are afraid to slip into an eating disorder if you go vegan, maybe veggan would be a better option as long as you buy the right eggs. Of course that could not be the right choise for you, just putting it up here if you haven't heard of veggans before.
