has this ever happened to any of you?

afteer not eating meat for a VERY long time, i started craving it.. i couldnt resist and i ate a hunk of salami. after that i felt like i could taste blood in my mouth and i fe lt so sicck i vomited it up. apparently my bo dy cant handle meat anymore

it has not happened to me because i have not tried that but to one of my friends brothers, yes. he was a vegetarian for a while but was not very aware of his nutritional needs (i am not saying we need meat cause i know we don't) and decided he needed meat and when he ate meat he vomitted directly after also.

Oh yes, it happened to me. It was because I lived with a vegetarian for some time before I 'officially' converted, so although I hadn't eaten meat in several months, I was still free (in my own mind) to do so. Just for a change, I ordered some lamb in a restaurant - I used to like lamb - and the first bite nearly made me throw up. I had to get rid of it. It was so gross, all chewy and fibrous and like you say, tasted of blood, and I was horribly aware that it had once been a cute little LAMB. :( Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking when I ordered it. Anyway that was the turning point for me, as I haven't eaten any meat since then.

Sounds like you were just looking for an excuse to purge...

excuse to purge? not really. i have low iron and always crave meat when im on the rag and couldnt resist this time. my body couldnt handle it and it came back up. jeeZe

sunkissedbliss is trippin all over you today aint she? Actually, there is a scientifical explination for that.... this one goes out to sunkissedbliss

When a person doesnt eat meat .... or vegetables for a prolonged period of time, the taste buds that react to those flavors go dorment. They do this because they are active organisms and tasting actually uses energy. When you wake up the dorment tastebuds they have a chemical reaction that produces enzymes to "dull" the taste of the food because the buds are unfamiliar with the taste. This causes you to taste the nutritional property that is highest in the particular food, in the case of salomi it would be the amino acids that pertain to the animal proteins.  Since animal proteins are high in iron ( especially porks and beefs ) she tasted the iron.

Quit being such a jerk sunkissedbliss and get some college. Btw, all this medical talk coming out of my mouth... and your saying she has an eatting disorder. Well, I just got done looking through your pictures and there is one titled "when i randomly got bloated". If you were bloated from your menstrual cycle you wouldnt have posted that picture. Thats called abdominal distention and is caused when the intestines, digestive tract, or stomach become inflamed causing water retention. Hmm, should i leave it up to everyone in this forum to speculate what the cause of that was.

Thanks for the info, Jason.  I can see now why the meat I used to like, but hadn't eaten for ages, tasted so vile.  I assumed it was just a psychological reaction, but I guess there's more to it than that.

it can be that too to some degree. You have to realize that your brain controls every aspect of what you see, hear, taste, and feel. If your brain has been programmed over time to expel something than you actually become fearful of it. That fear usual exists subcontiously as nobody wants to admit they have a flaw or what they beleive is wrong. Therefore the brain tries to cover the processes of fear up with other mechanisms .... hence the sickness and vomitting. This also can be explained scientifically, but ill spare you the grad thesis.

woww thnaks for that info i had no idea it was all so complicated
so does that mean once taste buds that react to certain food go dormant , that cant be reversed? and i cant eat meat again?

no it doesnt. as dorment is just a science word for asleep :P If you fight you urges to react however you do, eventually you will begin to crave meat more than youo did before. I did an experiment on this in college where i ate nothing but veggies for a month. I had a piece of sausage ( i chose sausage because of its very high fat content ) . I literally had to choke own the sausage. Next, i waited 2 months to eat meat again. This time the sausage came right back up. So it appears that it only takes a couple of months for them to go dorment, but it only takes three or four pieces of meat to get going again. Uncleben .... you need to message me, id like to talk to you.

Jastontarin, her other posts indicate that she has some kind of eating disorder. I'm perhaps body dysmorphic but I never NEVER purge!!!!

When the body is deficient of something, it craves a food high in what it doesn't have. For example, when a woman goes through that time of the month, she may crave chocolate because the loss of blood decreases the iron in her blood - so she craves chocolate, which has iron. Are you getting enough iron in your diet? Be sure to include iron rich foods in your every day diet like lentils, beans, oats, asparagus, etc.

sunkissedbliss, I think that was very rude to bring up a person's eating disorder when uncalled for. Unless you have something beneficial or constructive to say, please don't post. Let's keep this a happy community, mmkay? :P

Do you have some links to research about these dorment [sic] taste buds? I have never heard of such a thing, and in all my research about not eating meat and what happens when you start again, the only physical change is that if your body is not used to eating a huge amount of complex protein and fat at once, you don't have enough enzymes for proper digestion and can get sick.

it doesnt apply to only eatting meat. So you are researching the wrong things. Try looking up something along the lines of "taste atrophy". If you still cant find something, send me an e-mail and ill give you some links. She also mentioned that it happens to her pre-digestion. However, if it happened post digestion i would completely agree with you.

Hm, I still can't find any good published research on it. I sent you a message in your mailbox because I am quite curious about this, as I have never heard of it, and am pretty convinced that the 'I didn't eat meat for two months and am now sick from it' is totally mental, especially the people who take a tiny bite or claim a bowl of chicken broth makes them sick.

This Happened To Me!!! OMG,After not allowing any  meat, I eat  anything I can afford ,except {MEAT} strictly down to bird and eggs. I became ill after about 4-5months,extremaly ALLERGIC to any meats or dairies. Just  ,I tried to go back to meat, I inhaled in the first bite and  it flew down my bronchial TUBE!!! I thought I was going to have a bronchial arrest!!! Also ,my neighbor{Rich>RIP} past away next door no one knew. He decompossed for 2 weeks and the flies were enormous. My sister and her husband , big meat eaters  & were homeless and came to stay with me. They cooked soooo much redmeat in my house, the entire time they couldn't figure out that horrid smell .  I never touched their food. Cause when flies land on meat , it's just too  gross .But these flies were special. They defecate.  And the  flies where from the dead nieghbors body!!! The are called MONOLITHIC  FLIES IN WARTIME.!!Uhg!You never think these bizarre events would ever happen to you. But it did to me. They were like raging idiots. I finally kicked them out.

I have been a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for 16 years now and every once in a while some meat somehow sneaks into something I'm eating (i.e. I ordered a cheese croquet and they brought chicken) and I feel downright sick to my stomache.  You can feel the fat build up on your teeth like a greasy film.  My stomache gets upset and I have actually thrown up twice. 

I dont know if it is a mental or physical reaction but it is real.  I do not and have never purged and very rarely (maybe 5 times in my life) have I ever thrown up even when I'm sick. 

 

This happened to me a couple days ago... I'm not averse to eating meat (i.e. I love steak, chicken, turkey, ham) but for some I normally don't get around to eating a lot of red meat in my diet because of the price. So having gone "red-meatless" for the past 8months, I joined my family at a neighbourhood block-party where they were serving up FREE BURGERS!! The smell of the bbq and the partying atmosphere, and the FREE BURGERS were just so tantalizing so I helped myself to one... and a half :P I felt really good while eating it (must have been the rush of the crowd and the fact that I had not tasted real-bbq-burger-goodness for soooo long) but then when I got home after the party, my stomach just wasn't sitting right... I felt all queezy. I didn't throw up, but I figured it must have been the meat that I wasn't use to, because everything else I ate was pretty much standard stuff (i.e. fries, salad, cobbed corn, water). Hmm... this thread has got me rethinking that day, I gotta do something before I start not being able to eat red meat! That would suck, I love meat...

Sometimes I wouldn't mind some salami.  But then I'd feel guilty about eating an innocent animal who had feelings of love and lust and hope and sadness and fear.

If you need Iron, eat kale.

This is gross, but...when I was 17 and had been veg for about a year, I went to a family Easter dinner and ate ham to be polite. Immediately after, I had to use the bathroom...if you know what I mean....it was a good 30 minutes before I could rejoin the festivities.

The next year I ate only bread and salad, but also drank wine (on a nearly empty stomach) and then passed out on the couch (a salad and only 2 servings of bread, didn't want to be rude and eat the whole basket of rolls!). My mom was pretty pissed...

 

Ahh, memories

:)

 

Anyways, from what I understand (and forgive me if this has already been mentioned) it's your pancreas/bile that makes you have issues with meat if you haven't eaten any in a while.

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