Hello ladies.
For digestive health reasons I eat a mainly plant based diet, so in effect I am vegan. I am wondering if this has any impact, good or bad, on my hormones. I suspect not as I share so many of the same experiences as other ladies here who I assume are eating a more standard diet however I don't know that for certain. I would be interested to hear about your diets ladies and if you feel that what you eat, or avoid eating is helping you during the menopause.
I look forward to reading your comments and hopefully we can all learn from each other.
Take care everyone.
K.
My diet is mainly plant based, I do like eggs, but feel bad eating them. Fried eggs.
So, yeah, I am mostly vegan, meds excluded.
I never thought about hormones.
I get a bit pi$$ed off with checking what interacts with what, as I am weaning off valium, and when I used to stick to "foods-you should-eat-when-weaning-off-benzodiazepines" it was such a hassle I gave up, some foods like spices make valium stay in the system, some veggies make it leave the system, - tangent over
I guess we could google "vegan" + "menopause" I might add it to my list of web searches.
I eat a lot of ready meals, fake meats (I love those, with nice bread and vegan mayo/salad cream) nuts, I used eat avocados, until I realised cartels ran them. I should eat more fruit, but I do drink fruit smoothies, I love Tescos naked one, it's dear, but not if you dilute it, you can get five bottles of tasty fruit drink for the price of one by adding water.
I became lazy in summer, with the heat, eating lots of sandwiches.
Today's food was one of those ciabattas with Marg, then a black bean and seitan ready meal and another ciabatta with Marg, not too healthy. I have vitamins and supplements, and of course, the hrt, I can't wait to come off hrt.
PS, yeah B12 once a day. I read megadosing with that helps depression but I never tried it and didn't read enough to comment.