 Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw organic grass fat and grass finished freeze dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. Does that help? And we know this, right? We know this. If I go, hey, don't stress. You're like, uh, no, I'm stressed, but not feeling stressed yet. But rather than telling yourself what not to do, I'm going to stop this. All right, guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to react to Hannah McNeely with her video of five mistakes you are making on a vegan diet. For people that don't know I was a vegan for four years straight. I tried every dietary vegan approach there is, no matter if it is fruitarianism, raw veganism, a whole food plant based diet, the daily dozen and the nutrientarian diet by Dr. Joel Furman. On top of that, I'm a personal trainer. I come from a bodybuilding background. Therefore I tracked all my macros, tracked all my micros and supplemented with every single supplement under the sun. But I guess I still did it wrong. Let's see what Hannah has to say. Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. My name is Hannah McNeely and I teach people how to go vegan and make it a sustainable lifestyle and have some fun while you're doing it and not make it so stressful, which I know it can be if you're transitioning for the first time. No, that's not true. If you're transitioning for the very first time, it's actually fun. You think you found the holy grail. You're experimenting with different foods. It gets very, very stressful once the deficiencies kick in. I've been vegan since 2006 with some ups and some downs in the beginning and now some cheat meals. I'm just absolutely obsessed with this lifestyle and I've dedicated my time to sharing about it online and I'm just really grateful for it every day because it has transformed my life and I can't imagine who I would be or where I would be if I weren't vegan. Who you would be, you would be still you, but probably a lot healthier. Let's start. Let's just jump right in. Let's do five mistakes you're making on a vegan diet. I think this is, this will probably touch some buttons and you know what? If it does, that's okay. I'm okay with it. Leave your comment. I can handle it. Let's start with the number one. First mistake is trying to be perfect. I see this all the time. This was me for sure and this can look so many different ways. So let's address something first. Perfection does not exist anywhere in anyone in anything. Just in God. And it is such a freeing thought to know that perfection is an even and attainable goal at all. So let's address perfection and just like the okay, okay, okay, slow it down. So if you're talking about perfection and you become obsessed, of course, you could say that that is a compulsive disorder. However, if we're talking about food, we're talking about a species specific diet. It doesn't have to be perfect. It has to be simple and true. If we look at a cow, we feed the cow grass and the cow is healthy. Done deal. If we look at a tiger or a lion, they eat raw meat. Done deal. If we look at the human being, oh, we don't have to be perfect. Let's just chuck in 12 different plant foods every day and see what happens. Passionate ethical side of veganism first. We can do our best, but perfection isn't the goal. Veganism isn't even the goal because people think my veganism is just like this perfect sort of idyllic or idealistic life or lifestyle or this idealistic pursuit and the truth. How many coffees did you drink before recording this video? This I love the way Colleen Patrick Goudreau says it. She's my girl. She is she has been such an influential figure vegan figure in my life and she's an amazing podcast. You should check her out. Compassion is the goal. Veganism is just how we get there and it's just a means and all we're doing is just redirecting recalibrating every day towards compassion. So what that means is so what that means is you can cheat a little bit. This is what I hear cannot live this perfect life where we cause no harm to anyone or any creature ever. It just doesn't happen. And often perfectionism is what stops us from starting in the- The only way to be a successful long-term vegan is by eating eggs. First place. So if you're trying to go vegan but you're just worried that you're not perfect like well I would go vegan except for I have dinner with my grandmother every Tuesday and she makes me chicken parmesan. Well why don't you go vegan except for every Tuesday. Just an idea. And then a big one is just like perfectionism in diet and nutrition. A perfect diet does not exist. I hate to break it to you. There's no such thing. It's so extremely ridiculous. She's justifying her own cheating and mark my words pretty soon she's going to come out as an ex-vegan. That I promote and I eat. I'm pretty I think I'm pretty clear like I'm not promoting like one specific way of eating because there is no perfect diet for everyone right like we're just trying to eliminate harm from animals and guess what our health is there a perfect diet for cows is there a perfect diet for lions yet again do you then think that there is no perfect diet for humans. Benefits and not to mention the environment. The perfectionism in diet can be can cause just so much unnecessary heartache when it comes to knowing what to eat which is why I talk about this a lot in my vegan for good course. Knowing what to eat is huge. I mean we do have to educate ourselves on nutrition inform ourselves what it means to eat well what our whole foods how do we balance our our plate nutritional science can be incredibly conflicting and confusing and so there is an element of having to inform yourself a bit. This video makes me nauseous man I cannot listen to this woman. Yes nutritional science can be confusing to many people. This is why not everybody is a nutritional scientist however if you look into rural areas and how those people eat you see that they're all eating a bunch of animal foods most of the time as well in their raw unprocessed state. Believe it or not you don't need a doctor's degree to eat nutritious. You know how to eat well however don't be perfect like there's you just can't be and there's no need and I actually find there's a lot more benefit into being a bit more relaxed about diet and you know just achieving perfectionism. I have been there that's why I'm laughing I have been there believe me and okay so why don't you tell us how you eat now. What I'm actually going to ask you to do and then you're going to hate me for this is just to look inward for a second because I have learned so much about perfectionism in myself in how this was affecting so many areas of my life mainly sleep I was really struggling with sleep and I didn't realize it's because I had a self-worth issue I thought that I had to be perfect in order to be valuable and I think many people don't realize that they have a self-worth issue and they're using perfectionism as a way to cope with cope cope cope it's literally the blind leading the blind why would you learn from this person you know a self-worth issue that they've been struggling with their whole lives and maybe haven't realized I would look inward do some processing do some self-analysis and why am I obsessed with perfection and so even if you don't see yourself as a perfectionist take stock a perfectionist doesn't necessarily mean you're a neat freak or that you want things to be a nice tightrope it could just mean that you think you have to you know do all the chores perfectly and make your bed and everything has to be perfect and you have to follow this thing and if you aren't you know doing all your healthy habits every day then all of a sudden you aren't worthy man this point is so useless I know thousands of ex-vegans and every single one had a different approach to their diet nevertheless the outcome is the same they all fail what mistake number two not continually educating yourself and informing yourself on what's going on in the world related to veganism so this and that is a direct contradiction to the first point so you don't want to be a perfectionist but you have to update your knowledge consistently in order to cope with your vegan diet newsflash lady you don't have to do that if you're eating steak the environment nutrition oh man animals ethics all of that and the reason is manyfold first of all there are so many exciting things happening in plant-based nutrition and the ex-vegans the anti-vegans out there are very loud on the internet I don't know if you've noticed they're in my comment section and if you were informed about what's going on in scientific research nutritional science and the hierarchy of research and woman yet again you're debunking yourself the hierarchy of evidence scientific research you just said the nutritional science is complicated and that you shouldn't be a perfectionist about aren't just have a basic understanding of what's going on by listening to the credible people not anonymous randos listen to the authorities you're going to be easily swayed and you're going to be confused and you're going to second guess your whole lifestyle decision not to mention you are going to lose your vigor lose your passion that you once had when you went vegan initially continue to surround yourself with those free podcast interviews with continue to grind it out no matter how much you're suffering these doctors who are so passionate and knowledgeable incredible about this lifestyle and rational and reasonable if you know someone can be passionate as well as a woman steadfast and thinking about things reasonably and not just as so emotionally and when we surround ourselves with those podcast interviews you know every day every week listening to them or books if you're more of a reader we're constantly going to be so essentially every single time when you feel that there is something wrong with your diet you're going to listen to podcasts and brainwash yourself right back into veganism minded of why we are vegan and why this is the optimal diet for our health we live in this i don't feel good but it's optimal world that doesn't openly support our vegan lifestyle let's be honest with ourselves whether we're at the station and there's like this snickers display right there you're at your family event everyone's trying to get you to eat the egg salad whatever it is we chose this sort of alternative lifestyle this religion i personally feel very convicted in it and i'm sure you do too or you at one time did and we have to remind ourselves of why we're doing this like especially go back to the animal footage i know it's really hard to watch but it is essential to watch that stuff it is exactly it's essential i was brainwashed like that myself at the four-year mark of veganism i couldn't take it anymore i was running to the toilet 16 times per day i was depressed anxious my teeth were rotting and then the only way to pull myself back into veganism was by watching those documentaries over and over again earthlings dominion and what not but guess what in the end not even those documentaries made me stay vegan just look at joey carp strongman he has those empty eyes looking at the slaughter footage not feeling anything essential to know if you've lost that passion go back to the animal footage go back to seeing what is actually happening when you pay someone to kill animals mistake number three just kill yourself a lot of people go vegan and there's this sort of stress isn't that what you just talked about in point number one and there's this sort of stress around what i eat around diet this kind of goes back to the perfectionism thing yeah with me for a second understandably in the beginning there's gonna be a lot of sort of obsession about what we're eating because it's an entirely new shift going from eating this standard way the status quo to all of a sudden you're eating you're taking the animal foods off your plate and you're sort of confused about what to eat and you're like fiddling with things and you can't figure it out but at some point once you've got it figured out you really gotta you gotta stop stressing about food i would argue for the entire transition we shouldn't be stressing about food but i am i think that requires quite a bit of guidance and some some hand holding stressing about food but why is nobody stressing when they go on a carnival diet they're just eating steaks eggs some other meat cuts maybe some fish why is there no stress so the opposite of what we want to do what we want to do is eat our food with joy eat our food with delight and enjoy truly enjoy what we're eating at every meal i think yeah but how will you enjoy a kale salad especially when people go vegan for health reasons and they start to learn about plant-based nutrition there's a lot of fear there's a lot of fear about foods and then the fear kind of gets into you know fear about fats and fear about oils and fear about processed foods and fear about all these things and the truth is fear is not sustainable fear can okay so the truth is you should eat plant oils and sugar for you sure but it's not gonna keep you going in a joyful and loving energetic vitality infused way beer is right plenty of words and stressful and guess what it ain't good for your body when you're stressed okay i don't need to go into it right we know how harmful stress is to our body so why are we stressing about food relax not only can a fear-based diet situation or a stressful diet situation create disordered eating which is a totally relaxed conversation i'm getting an anxiety attack listening to you it's also going to disrupt any piece that you might have in your gut and microbiome especially at mealtimes but right especially at mealtimes it's not the plants that disrupt your biome no no no it's the stress also throughout the day stress it's not the jab it's infant mortality syndrome is more more harm to be honest stress doesn't help and we know this right we know this if i go hey don't stress you're like uh no i'm stressed but not feeling stressed again but rather than telling yourself what to do focus on what to do such as feel joy enjoy my day laugh with my friends live with purpose in my life because all your subconscious knows when you say don't stress your subconscious doesn't hear the word don't it just hears the word stress yeah it's so hilarious to see that vegans always have to reaffirm what they should feel why don't you feel good in the first place that is the real question if you would eat your speed specific diet you would be relaxed start focusing on stress stress stress and it starts finding stress rather replace that with do joy today let's do joy let's do happiness there's already a sign of severe mental illness if you have to tell yourself that you have to be joyful you either are joyful or you're not if you look at a dog for example the dog is joyful until the dog gets sick why would you think that depression is not sickness within your body peace so a lot of people go vegan they're feeling stressed they're feeling confused the transition can be a challenge for some especially if they're doing it sort of like peace-mealing advice and like finding like true guidance from an expert and again it's a huge adjustment to your life but then you're inadvertently causing harm to your health because of the stress it's so weird and and it can start affecting the quality of your sleep and we know how important sleep is good quality sleep okay so here's here's the solution yeah here's the solution if you eat nourishing foods you will have great sleep easy on yourself zoom out and just see yourself spinning on this blue dot which is such a miracle by the way you know life is a miracle and you have this incredible privilege to choose to eat plants exclusively not everyone has that privilege you have this morning yes it's a privilege to malnourish yourself to do that you have the privilege to eat the slave diet see that perspective and feel grateful oh thank you gratitude is everything if you are feeling grateful in the moment just just watch your stress melt away man this is so insane dude if you eat again your species specific diet animals that have been given to us by god you will feel grateful automatically because you feel the nourishment just try it out go to a sushi buffet and see how grateful you will feel afterwards this is of course absolute insanity nobody would feel grateful after eating a bunch of beans you will get digestive upset you will fart a lot nothing to be grateful about especially if you're in the beginning stages of being vegan that's why you found this video you're like what are the mistakes that i'm making and you start feeling stressed about the mistakes you're making maybe your transition was a little too abrupt and maybe you should have eased into it a little bit more i know that it's especially important for someone who's like dealing with gut issues easing into a plant-based diet is the best way to give yourself give yourself that fortitude and give yourself that time to adjust but if the vegan diet is perfectly healthy for us then if we would start eating it our gut issues should just vanish why doesn't that happen so if you're feeling stressed because you're like what the f do i eat for plant-based nutrition get some guidance from an expert get some uh get some books get some podcasts and start informing yourself rather than just sort of i can see she lost both of your way through okay mistake number four this is for vegans in all stages isolating yourself from friends and family this one might be a little controversial might step on some toes this is my personal opinion from my personal experience holy moly guys stop being so freaking judgmental and high and mighty you are not better than anyone because you're choosing a vegan lifestyle okay remember where you were before you went you're definitely not better i always think this way almost none of us were raised vegan it's pretty rare to find someone who's raised vegan and continued conviction in that life yeah why is that so style so now that you've you know made this amazing change of your life and you've experienced all these huge benefits you know in your mental state in your health everything it is not your place to judge and it is not your place to pull away from your family i know some people really struggle with you know communing together when there's body products on the table i get it it's uncomfortable for me to body products i have made the choice to still eat with my family when there are body products body parts and animal products you know that's really what it is it's gross right it's on the table it's sad i don't like it but i think it's more important to show love and acceptance to everyone that is what it means to be vegan right to show compassion to everyone rather than you know making myself out to be this sort of like perfect uh royal creature who does better than everyone like so judgmental right listen i think there is something to say there is very important to find your tribe it's important to find those other vegans and connect it's just easier sometimes you know when you it's quite interesting that there is not one single vegan tribe out there right are all on the same page whether it's about veganism politics religion it is easier when you have your little groups and you can talk about things when you connect but your family is your family okay don't let veganism disrupt what you have and with your friends too i know it's hard i have been there really like i have had stirruggles with some of my loved ones but it was me it was me sort of pushing them away it was me not exercising to realize that the reason one when i first became an ethical vegan it's like this veil was lifted and i was like what i just had no idea what was going on with the animals and it felt like my whole world just flipped inside out and i was angry and i was going through all these emotions and therefore it was a struggle with some relationships for a couple years i really encourage you to keep keep those bonds okay you know work on those relationships and work on yourself and you are not better than them just because you're vegan solution be light hearted be confident be very confident in who you are and your lifestyle choices but be joyful and be accepted yeah yet again absolutely ridiculous if you are confident guess what you would be confident if you're not confident you have to tell yourself that you are confident you're playing make believe unfortunately fake it until you make it doesn't work here because you have a biochemical issue because you're eating only plants is eliminating all of these other plant food groups permanently now this is a gut health one first and foremost i really encourage you to check out dr will bolsowitz he wrote the book fiber fuel fiber fueled and then he wow those vegans come up with one ridiculous name after the other nutrientary and daily dozen fiber fueled garb strong and whatnot it is ridiculous fiber is not essential fiber is not a nutrient fiber doesn't provide energy even why would you call yourself fiber cookbook which is so much more than just a cookbook this is all about gut issues if you are experiencing gut issues at all you vegans love studies so just look into studies and how fiber interferes with your digestion if you have digestive issues it's a great idea to remove fiber these books the second one the one that just came out in particular is really specifically guiding you through food intolerances and how to build your gut and strengthen your gut listen your gut is really this is what i've learned from dr bolsowitz okay it's your gut is like a muscle if you decide that you want to uh lift 300 pounds you're not going to go to the gym and lift 300 pounds immediately you're gonna slowly build up to it the same as with your gut and fiber fiber is so essential for your the health absolutely essential yet again for the last time i'm gonna bring you the example of the cow i should call this video the cow the cow doesn't need to build up her gut in order to digest grass however if you want to fatten up a cow and introduce corn which is not part of the natural diet of that cow then yes you have to slowly introduce it however shortly after you kill that cow so you cannot see the long-term side effects in humans we can since the agricultural revolution we see all of those modern-day diseases why and if you all of a sudden start eating this amazing plant-based diet and you're just looting up on the kale and also you're like i just i do not do well on fiber it's because you need to build the strength of your gut another wonderful analogy that dr b has given is imagine you hurt your knee you have two options you can either stop walking so that you don't feel the pain in your knee or you can slowly rehab the knee so that you can start walking again the stopping walking is analogous to permanently taking out the foods that you think are causing you harm or you can slowly incorporate the foods back in to build the strength up and start walking again which is analogous to eating an abundant plant-based lifestyle all right let me give you an analogy i'm standing in front of a wall a concrete wall and i'm banging my head against it so now it's bleeding should i stop permanently eliminating giant food groups like grains and beans this this is detrimental to our health because our gut depends on all of the different kinds of fiber that are available to us oh her gut depends on grains in the plant world because many people have food intolerances sometimes temporary elimination of those foods is necessary and it just we just have to know that it's necessary and you can bring it back in and that is what the fiber fueled cookbook is all about dr b is amazing i highly recommend his books but yeah i think a lot of people go vegan and they start just like eating this like really extreme diet where they're eliminating all this i i was there i experimented trust me i was there but now i'm eating in such an abundant way and how do you eat so much i'm so glad i can eat bread all right guys and this is it my head is spinning the video is long enough the screeching voice was absolutely unbelievable i think that was the longest time that i ever listened to a woman if you like the video leave it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel all the links in the description box below thank you so much all right i'm gonna eat 10 steaks now thank you very much as always may god bless you all much love and peace