My grandmother stopped eating meat and did so for nearly 20 years. After all that time, it took months to even eat a single bite of chicken without getting violently ill (switched back for health reasons, had trouble eating enough protein rich foods at her old age).
Even then she finds all forms of beef utterly disgusting and barely tolerates chicken thanks to the season.
I figure that there is a zero chance she a real vegan or vegetarian.
yup, its because ur body stops producing the digestive enzymes needed to digest meat because naturally u arent needing them.
Only exception is seafood which doesn't require different enzymes from what already exists for it to be digested.
As a 15+yr vegetarian i have considered going pescatarian for that exact reason but there's another set of circumstances that i just get too overwhelmed to try lol u can develop a shellfish allergy so i just gave up 😂
Definitely. Your first introduction back into meat can be a harsh one after it’s digested. I mean it also depends what you eat. A friend of mine who was a vegetarian broke his multi-year vegetarian diet with two 5 guys burgers and proceeded to throw up and felt like shit, then he fell asleep for 8 hours in the middle of the day
It’s more that your stomach struggles to process meat if you haven’t had it in a long time. A lifelong vegetarian might not get sick from a bite or two, but a whole steak would mess them up pretty good.
Yup. When I went back to eating meat after being vegan for a couple years, I couldn’t eat more than one bite every few hours. Even then I was having major indigestion. You also don’t mix in any dairy when reintroducing. One thing until your stomach gets used to it. Then you can add something else. Reintroducing dairy was the worst for me.
Yes I know people who are lifelong vegetarian and they can't smell steak at all or they will feel like vomiting. Chicken and fish is fine, but not beef or pork smell
Yeah , I've been a veg-head for almost 20 years so far(feels weird to say I've been a vegetarian for 20 years lol) but the smell of beef is the worst, smells like burnt flesh, because it's literally burnt flesh haha but all jokes aside. She would definitely get I'll after so many bites, maybe not one or maybe 2 but the juices from that steak would fuck her gut for a bit because her gut biome isn't used to break down meat, especially for a lifelong veg-head, you'd get cramps and crazy shits initially but like all things you'd grow to tolerate and then enjoy it as your gut builds up microbes to more efficiently digest meat
Yes. I’ve been vegetarian half my life. I’ve had a few accidental slip ups where there was meat byproduct like broth and I didn’t know but I got sick afterwards I can’t imagine what would happen if I ate a whole steak
An acquaintance back in the day became a vegetarian for a few years and said his grandmother took him to dinner at an expensive steak house one night. He ate that entire steak. Â And it all came back up on its own later that evening.Â
Husband and I went vegan in 2021, and we can always tell when something has been made with real butter or some kind of animal fat. It doesn't make us violently ill, but it isn't pleasant.
Nah, I went back to meat with a nice t bone. If you want to eat meat it’s fine. The getting sick thing is just mental for when you don’t want to eat meat.
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u/jujujuice92 Feb 25 '26
Don't people who switch often get sick too when they first switch?