Cow shame…

I’m in India in a vegetarian area but I’m heading to Nepal for a week tomorrow. I’ve been eating a vegetarian diet in India so far but have intentions of eating meat in Kathmandu. I feel so guilty especially of eating anything cowlike, such as a buffalo or a yak. I’ve had dietary OCD before and I was vegan with no supplements and eating a very restricted diet. I think I’m going to cope with this as I had no meds last time and I’m a lot wiser about proper nutrition now. I figure eating meat for one week then coming back to vegetables in India is a simple way of stocking up on important vitamins. On the quiet though I do enjoy being vegetarian and the food here is delish.

Wolfram

Date posted: 1y

We have canines for a reason. It's not for veggies 😅 we are making a conscious choice, not naturally evolving into herbivores. B12 supplements are highly recommended as it's not naturally found in our "diet". Its known as the happiness vitamin. I take them. It makes a difference

NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y

@Invalid You probably know but I read that 80% of vegans are deficient in B12. I don’t know how true it is but I got it from more than one source.

NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y

@Invalid I also believe in not wasting any of the animals we do kill. I see that as another way of making a difference. Offal is extremely nutritious and it goes to waste.

NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y

@Invalid It is so nice to meet a vegan with a similar mind to myself. I don’t see this as just about using animal products. I see there are many ways to improve those stats and there is more than one issue at hand. Some people are never going to live on a plant based diet but if you said would you eat liver and onions sometimes and a steak and kidney pie now and then they’d be over the moon to help. Also I think there are many people who wouldn’t care about not wearing real leather. I know I can wear linen and I love it in summer.

Sam551

Date posted: 1y

My food my choice

NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y

@Sam551 It is for health reasons so you are right. I will have to cone back to India and look my friends in the eye. 😂 It is shameful lol.

Wolfram

Date posted: 1y

I'm vegan and personally don't see anything wrong with this. Is it the guilt because of how cows are seen in India? I remember them walking in the middle of the streets and on beaches. If so, I think buffalo and take aren't seen as religious (could be wrong). I've also known some vegetarians and vegans who have been told by the doctor to eat one steak a month for deficiency reasons. Don't feel bad about it. Happy to hear you have a better education on nutrition though 😊 some people really struggle with that when taking the leap to veganism

NotSoNewb82

Date posted: 1y

@Invalid I’ve considered vegan with fish but tbh I’m not that bothered about eating dairy and eggs. Eggs are generally unfertilised. Being in India too the animals have good lives due to the religion here. They see it as the cows produce more milk than their calf needs and are very grateful for what the animals give them. Basically I have to leave the country every 180 days on my visa. So that is one week every six months I eat meat. No biggy I suppose. Being vegan and being vegetarian have taught me so much about diet, nutrition and senseless killing. When I was at home if I ate meat it would be proper cuts of meat from a butcher which would have been locally sourced and from being vegan I knew the importance of variety in both vegetables and meat. I felt so healthy. I feel similarly in good shape here but I know that B12 deficiencies have been suggested as something I may have had in the past and it was also suggested that it may have been a contributing factor in a major episode I had once. I love being veggie though. It is so easy compared to veganism and I’d suggest it for anyone who found veganism too hardcore. I personally think this whole vegan revolution that has been going on will make a lot of people think a lot more about food in many ways, not just in terms of animal welfare. A good move!!!

Wolfram

Date posted: 1y

I do believe if you kill an animal, put everything to use at least. I mean if someone killed me for food I'd be super pissed they only used a bit of me 😂

ChaoticCatte...

Date posted: 25w

Contamination/health OCD struggles

Recently, I’ve been struggling a ton with what I eat/put into my body? I’m a first year college student with a few different health issues (including IBS), and lately it’s been hard for me to find food on campus that doesn’t upset my stomach. I also have pretty severe emetophobia, and feel extremely anxious when I feel sick. The ironic thing is that being anxious makes me feel even worse, so I end up sticking myself in an impossible loophole. My OCD has taken hold of these fears over the past few months, and it’s been such a struggle. Especially since people have been getting food poisoning from various dining halls on my campus lately. My OCD has gotten so bad that sometimes I’m too afraid to eat food other than what I buy myself. I feel so trapped. I don’t want my OCD to affect my physical health or prevent me from eating, bc I love eating!! It’s the fear of getting sick that’s the problem. And it’s even harder when everything is so unfamiliar. Just wondering if anyone could relate. Advice is appreciated!

rane75

Date posted: 24w

Ramadan

If any Muslims with OCD come across this, i would like advice. Other people are also fine to give advice too. Anyway i am not a Muslim but most of my friend group is Muslim. I never grew up religious my dad was an ex catholic but still had religious views ingrained into his brain and when i would go to say good night to him he would say things like “God Bless you have good dreams” plus he was always drunk so it would be way more emotional and in depth. Anyway that transcended into me as a child praying to god everytime i was in the bath even though i didn’t believe in him it was “just in case”, which i know now was my OCD. Ok back to the point sorry it is long but I told my best friend who is a Muslim that i’ve been thinking about converting which was true, and i’ve been thinking about it for about two years. Today is the first day of Ramadan and i told two of my friends that i would be fasting for the month because most of my friends are and also the fact i’m interested in Islam. I woke up at 4am today, ate enough food to be full by the sunrise, then i fasted until 2:12pm when i did a horrible thing and broke my fast. I was so tempted and i know it was wrong and i have to do something good to fix it. But i started feeling like all of this, everything i think about Islam, it’s all just my OCD, and i have a strong feeling about this. I pray to Allah in my head, learned some arabic, read part of the Quran, and i tried to fast but i know i wont be able to resist my temptation even though that is the whole point of Ramadan. I know in my heart i don’t have real religious beliefs and that all of my thoughts about Islam are intrusive. How do i stop my thoughts and how do i tell my friend that i am probably not going to convert because it is not right for me? She will be understanding but i will feel like i mislead her and also i will feel a little more uncomfortable around my friends because i know i have decided that i don’t believe in Allah or want to convert. Please don’t tell me to convert because it will influence me immediately and although i love the religion i know it is not what i believe in or want with my life. Please help i am sorry this is so long

Religion & Spirituality OCD

jambaa7

Date posted: 13w

Anybody else?

I am so tired of having intrusive thoughts everytime i try to eat anything cause my mind immediately goes to “what if this tastes like human meat” “what if the texture is like human meat” and i have to stop eating and i start crying it annoys me so bad and i lost some weight because of it i just want to be normal again and to stop these thoughts they happened out of nowhere and i talked to some people about it and they tell me what cannibals have said and it has made things so much worse tbh im just so exhausted and i wanna eat healthy again

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