Abdominal pain?

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whenever I refrain from eating meat for more than 2 days straight, I
start getting a pain in my upper abdomen, in the middle (occasionally
spreading a little to the right side).

My guess is that it is "in your head", psychosomatic. The solar plexus region
seems to be a focus for referral of stress pain, emotional turmoil. I'm
guessing that your body coupled with your mind is rebelling a bit at making the
change over. Btw, I am not a vegetarian, but do eat less meat and more
vegetables and fruit, now that I am older. I may go a week and not eat meat,
but I do not notice any symptoms that you mention. When I am under stress
though, I DO get odd pain sensations in that same area you mention.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

whenever I refrain from eating meat for more than 2 days straight, I
start getting a pain in my upper abdomen, in the middle (occasionally
spreading a little to the right side).

My guess is that it is "in your head", psychosomatic. The solar plexus region
seems to be a focus for referral of stress pain, emotional turmoil. I'm
guessing that your body coupled with your mind is rebelling a bit at making the
change over. Btw, I am not a vegetarian, but do eat less meat and more
vegetables and fruit, now that I am older. I may go a week and not eat meat,
but I do not notice any symptoms that you mention. When I am under stress
though, I DO get odd pain sensations in that same area you mention.

Hmm. Possibly, but I've been through some horrible stress in my life
(not recently, though), and my stomach hasn't misbehaved. I did react
to it with physical symptoms, just not abdominal ones.

And I haven't been rebelling at all at the idea of vegetarianism.
Maybe it was subconscious rebellion, I guess, but it must be very
deeply buried, then, because I haven't been feeling it at all.

I do, however, notice that I'm starving all the time. It's a little
better if I eat beans, but I still don't stay full for very long, even
if I really stuff myself.

LM

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I do, however, notice that I'm starving all the time. It's a little
better if I eat beans, but I still don't stay full for very long, even
if I really stuff myself.

Errrr... Are you sure this is not plain old *hunger*? I mean, when hunger
gets intense enough (and you're not in ketosis), it can get a bit painful,
or create stress that cause psychosomatic pains... Did you cut your calories
a lot while switching to your new diet? Usually, people recognize hunger as
such, but some are quite unable to do so. It seems we can experience
specific hunger (usually with specific cravings) when we haven't eaten
enough proteins (actually, some authors claim it can be amino-acid
specific). Beans are a decent source of proteins, though not as dense as
meat.
How did you design your vegeratarian diet? Do you still eat cheese, milk,
eggs? What did you replace meat with? The more you remove animal products,
the more careful you have to be with designing your diet, because you have
to build your own complete proteins from the uncomplete proteins you find in
vegetables. That's where you could benefits from the advice of a long term
vegetarian, a dietitian or a nutritionist...