Vegan to vegetarian transitioning.

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jade097
jade097 Posts: 9 Member
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Not exactly weight loss related, but I've been vegan for a year and I want to start eating dairy sometimes. Does anyone have any tips for doing it? I'm worried about skin problems and bloating.

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  • veggie16mfp
    veggie16mfp Posts: 114 Member
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    Just reintroduce it slowly.
  • marishkarip520
    marishkarip520 Posts: 3 Member
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    Or just get the feeling of dairy by eating almond ice cream, yogurt or milk or the coconut variety
  • Resistive
    Resistive Posts: 212 Member
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    Cheesecake! It brings everyone back to the dark side.
  • pinggolfer96
    pinggolfer96 Posts: 2,248 Member
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    marishkarip520 wrote: »
    Or just get the feeling of dairy by eating almond ice cream, yogurt or milk or the coconut variety

    I’m sorry but that makes zero sense....

    On the contrary though I was the same way. Eliminated dairy from my diet 3 years ago for skin. Reintroduced it about 2 months ago....my skin has never been clearer (knock on wood), but I didn’t have any breakouts reintroducing it
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,741 Member
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    Have you shown any sign in the past of lactate intolerance? If you tolerated dairy fine as recently as a year ago, I'd suggest just reintroducing it slowly, and perhaps starting with live-culture fermented dairy products like yogurt or kefir in small amounts. Eat a little, see how it goes, if things seem tolerable increase the amount gradually; if things continue OK, start gradually re-introducing other dairy products.

    Some of the adaptation to new foods can be related to gut microbiome adaptation. A small study I read suggested that vegetarian to omnivore adaptation (or vice-versa) may be fairly rapid, like a couple of weeks. (With apologies, I don't have a cite for the study.) It seems like re-adding dairy ought to be similar, but that's a pure guess.

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