BigGeekGirl
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Your "menu" consists of all the things I cannot eat. Except corn chips. I can eat a few of those. The "cannot" is because of SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth. The likely causes of that can include the DS, but do include aging, and the use of PPI/H2's and opioids.
SOMETIMES, not you...not so far, proponents of a vegan lifestyle seem to consider their choices superior to the choices of others. And because of that, I may be just a tad defensive. So, just for the record, a vegan diet would render me housebound due to non-stop diarrhea, so...fuck the environment and the animals, too. It's a survival issue.
To be honest, while a nice salad sounds great and would be a huge treat, I happen to REALLY LIKE things like ribeye and tri-tip and scrambled eggs and ham. They "cure" the diarrhea and can be found anywhere and allow me to be part of the human race, which unattended SIBO does not.
(I may be the only one here...now...with SIBO. But, given how many here use PPIs and H2 medications and maybe opioids, and have had gastric surgery and might some day be 70 years old, too...and I want them to recognize this issue sooner rather than later.)
Anyway, @Stefanie S. ...do your best to get in the needed protein. But if you go vegan, you HAVE TO get FREQUENT labs. We do not recover easily or quickly from deficiencies. Don't let lifestyle OR inattentive doctors cause you to get irreparably ill. Remember that having the DS without adopting the necessary diet, supplements and lab testing is suicide.
I think I left out some back story. I am not vegan. I have leather shoes and take vitamins that include gelatin , etc.
I am trying to eat whole food plant based for my husband who is on his second kidney transplant and has dangerously high cholesterol. He is not a DSer. But I do 100% of the cooking.
Full on ethical vegans can be very unethical in their treatment of people who won't act like them, you are correct.
I'm sorry to hear about your health issues. I'd be sad to give up veggies as I've always loved them. One of the reasons I chose DS was the ability to have a full functioning stomach so I could eat raw veggies.
I'm sure I will settle into a place where I am eating meat or eggs a few times a week. Right now I am doing this to model to my husband that it can be done and the food can be tasty. The good news is his cholesterol is coming down !!
One other note- my brother is a cardiologist who is plant based (not vegan) and sponsoring a double blind study now on strict plant based eating - and that includes getting less than 10% of calories from fat like some of the blue zone populations. (If you've read about blue zones- they are where the longest living people are clustered). It was his suggestion to help my husband...
I too love ribs and steak but equally love lentils and cabbage so it is working for me.
I'm not suggesting the same path for all as each of us react differently to DS and our needs differ.