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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a vegetarian for about ten years, mostly for ethical reasons. I've lately begun having dreams about meat and for years I've felt tired and weak and my hair and nails are awful. I attributed it to having young kids and working full-time, but now that the kids are 8 and 10, that's no longer an excuse that makes sense. I'm seriously considering reintroducing meat and seeing how I feel. I have had my iron levels checked and they are low, but not anemic low.

Has anyone gone back to meat?  How did you feel?  How did you reintroduce it?  How did you deal with the guilt and/or change in identity?[/quote]

Wow. This sounds exactly like me, except that I have 9-year-old twins  :)

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and then I started having dreams about eating meat. I often felt that feeling tired and wiped out all the time might have to do with my diet, which was always very healthy. So, I just went and bought a very good quality steak, cooked it perfectly and enjoyed every bit of it. 
I've been feeling better ever since. I have my energy back and surprisingly I feel less guilty about my food choices. 
Like another poster noted, it's also easier if you're someone who travels a lot, and obviously eating out is easier because you have more choices.

About the guilt/ change in identity, I think a lot of my friends and family were thrown off at first, and my sister -a militant vegan- was very disapproving. But that kind of only made me feel more confident that I made the right choice for my well-being. [/quote]

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