I've never been a vegetarian although I do love most vegetables. However, from birth I was always sensitive to dairy and in my 50's I finally learned that was because I'm casein sensitive. I also found out I'm gluten sensitive and most likely have celiac disease like my mother. (I have the gene). Those two conditions can really damage your gut. My life was one of serious digestive upsets from dairy, gluten, and finally, sugar.

When I did my first Atkins diet in 2003, it was a revelation because for the first time I felt fantastic and had no digestive upsets at all for the first time in my life. Eggs, fats, meat, green leafy veggies....my body runs best on those kinds of foods. It was on Atkins that I found out that a life without most dairy, legumes, corn, many vegetables such as the starches, fruit, sugar, wheat and other grains....that diet made such a difference in how I felt. Limited foods to be sure, but I've found that eating this way is better than eating those foods and suffering all the time from them.

I can't imagine being a vegetarian or vegan because so many of foods on those diets would give me digestive trouble....beans, certain vegetables, corn, dairy. I'd be a mess. I thrive on meat and no "expert" will convince me otherwise. Sorry about that, meat haters.

Same here. Meat, fish and low carb veggies. No dairy, eggs, grains, or legumes. I can’t eat chicken either. It might be restrictive but it keeps my gut happy. If I was required to eat vegan or vegetarian I would once again be too sick to leave the house.