I've been vegan for the last ten years or so but over the period of the last year or two I have lost quite a bit of weight. I saw my GP last year and after doing the blood tests he said there was nothing wrong with me and that I should just eat more. I told him I was vegan and so he said look on the internet for high calorie vegan foods which I did. I used to eat a fair bit of vegetarian mince but as discussed in another thread this is no longer available so for my main dinner I tend to use either lentils, black beans, kidney beans or chickpeas as a meat substitute and combine this with either potatoes, brown rice, pasta or other grains. I will also combine this with various vegetables including green beans, carrots, broccoli and peas. For breakfast I will eat a bowl of muesli with soy milk and a banana and later in the day another bowl of museli this time with oat milk and three crumpets. For lunch I have been eating a tin of baked beans and three slices of wholemeal toast and an orange. Throughout the day I will snack on various nuts and have one Nakd bar each day. I also take a Holland & Barrett multivatimin and minerals tablet each day. Despite all this I still seem to be loosing weight. Since 2009 I've had various other symptoms like muscle twitches, inability to distinguish beyond the basic tastes, and intolerance to heat (I don't feel heat like I used to, when it's a warm day I just have this dull burning like feeling). I also often have poor concentration and this can be worse after I eat and often get belching/flatulence but it doesn't seem to matter what I eat. The doctors seem to think this is all psychosomatic and not related to the weight loss. I don't seem to feel either hungry or full like I used to, I tend to time my eating by the clock rather than feel hungry but I could also eat quite a lot and not feel full.
I'm certainly not expecting anyone here to have answers for the health issues but does anyone have ideas on what more I could be eating to gain weight? I have also tried Trek bars recently but I have been doing a bit of research recently and have discovered that for a lot of the food I have been eating there is a risk of aflatoxin contamination which has got me quite concerned about eating a lot of food like nuts although I haven't at this time stopped eating them.
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