I have more energy since shifting towards a vegan diet-- mid-day slumps are rare now and I have more energy after work in the evening as well.
Work on complex coding and DevOps tasks continues as before.
Work on complex coding and DevOps tasks continues as before.
When people switch to vegan they essentially rely more on home cooked meals and stay away from junk it doesn’t mean that a vegan diet is better than a non vegan diet of the same quality.
If you switch from twinkies to lentil patties and cauliflower rice it’s no wonder that you feel better.
Both diets largely excluded processed food (I'd eat tofu, fermented sauces in both, and some high quality ham in the whole food diet).
I think that the large ratio of vegetables and lack of simple sugars was the cause more so than the meat.
I get a similar boost when following body-building diets, these include simple sugars around training time and highly processed whey isolate. I have always used them to drop weight too so you're running at a calorie deficit. On those diets I've felt fantastic except the day after the binge day (you need to have a surplus once every 7-10 days to avoid starving).
Personally I believe meat has a place, but we have gone way to excess, but some people do feel the need to eat meat every day and I don’t judge. Most people could eat a lot less meat though and not really notice it.