Did anyone go off meat almost overnight?

[DessertLady2]

I've always eaten plenty of meat. We've been meat reducers for a while now but still very much enjoyed it.

However a few days ago I was having a lamb burger and left half to DH as it just didn't appeal (unheard of for me! ). At the weekend at a family barbecue I felt quite nauseous at the thought of eating meat. And today I made a chicken casserole and couldn't bring myself to eat it, so had toast instead. As I was cooking it I almost heaved at the sight of the raw meat, and felt sick just watching DH eat it.

I can't see myself ever wanting meat again!

How odd! Anyone experienced this? I have been feeling a bit tired/dizzy this week so wonder if it's caused by a sort of bug, or just an overnight personality change!

Any chance you could be pregnant?

I have never enjoyed eating meat-I eat some because of getting enough iron etc.
however when I was pregnant I felt queasy at the though if eating meat as part of morning sickness.not sure if u wanted to hear that or not 😂

Covid?

I went off meat for ages after covid.

Pregnant? Covid? Do you feel nauseous in general?

I went off meat when I was slow cooking chicken one day, been veggie since then. But then I was vegetarian for a while a decade earlier, so it wasn’t a new feeling for me. I’m a much more committed veggie these days as the thought of eating meat turns my stomach.

Funny you should say that as I did feel just like this in my first pregnancy, though it was just limited to meat on the bone at the time (chicken breast, sausages, burgers etc were fine). However we had a second baby not so long ago and no action since, so 100000% not pregnant. Could it be breastfeeding hormones?

I did wonder about covid, as i have had unusual on and off fatigue/dizziness/brain fog. DS has had about 4 separate instances of either fever, coughing or runny nose in the last month, so I suppose one of them could have been covid. Negative LFs, but when we all had it before half of us only tested positive on PCR.

I think I'd be quite happy if I am now veggie, better for my wallet and the planet. Currently browsing for lentil recipes!

@Nuisancepenguin similar experience, I was searing the meat before slow cooking and just... barf.

I have emetophobia so have always been fussy about meat quality and storage and hygiene and cooking to the right temperature and I don't know if my body has now decided it's not even worth the hassle.

I thought I could smell raw chicken in the car earlier too. Maybe it is covid and a weird sense of smell thing.

If you have not been having ethical discussions with yourself I would say pregnancy/hormones. However if already reducing meat it could be you have psychologically put yourself off it. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

@Carrieonmywaywardsun no, not nauseous in general, until I was watching DH eat it. It got so bad i thought I was coming down with a bug. I'm completely fine now!

I've gone right off meat, putting it down to menopause.

Not exactly but I'm far less impressed with it than I used to be. I'll still scoff a bacon butty but I'll often pick out the meat from a dish in favour of the veggies. I've even started to give the family a meal and do a vegetable pasta meal or something for me.

I am not and never will be a vegetarian but you can definitely go off meat.

@MugginsOverEre yes I think that's probably what I'm going to be like. I don't feel the need to cut it out completely but if most of it puts me off then I'll naturally barely eat any.

If only this could happen to DH too, we'd save a bit if money!

Another one who went off meat instantly in pregnancy, before I even knew.

I was exactly the same as you ...previous veggie. Only back to eating some meat. Just had a complete aversion to it one day and haven't eaten it since. My family do though and I'm okay cooking it, just so long as I don't have to eat it.

Yep, about 12 weeks ago when I found out I was pregnant!

Covid and pregnancy seem to be the most obvious reasons for most people.

Sometimes cravings and adversions are your body's way of telling you what it needs. As an example, a relative of mine went off meat when they (unknowingly) had some issues with their liver, and the doctor later said the two things were likely related. This was also accompanied by extreme tiredness and weight loss, though, so there would be other signals if that was the case!

Not with meat, but in the first lockdown I had a sudden aversion to coffee. No idea what caused it, but the thought of drinking coffee turned my stomach. Kept up until over a year later a friend bought me some really nice coffee beans and I felt obligated to try them, and it was fine and I’ve been drinking coffee just fine since. No idea what caused it, not Covid or pregnancy, but the disgust at the time was so real.

Long time ago now, I was standing in a friend's kitchen during a party, and eating a chicken drumstick. The thought ran through my head that I was gnawing flesh off a bone - I put it down, and that was that. It was a good 5 years before I ever ate any kind of meat again. I only caved because someone made me a bacon sandwich 😂

Oh my god yes! I was cooking it yesterday and thinking how much it looked like body parts. It's completely disgusted me.

Just want to say if you are having typical pregnancy symptoms but are definitely not pregnant, and can't explain them e.g. change of pill, you should get checked out. I had all the typical early pregnancy symptoms when I had an ovarian cyst, which then had to be removed. Don't want to worry you, but please don't brush off random symptoms as weird shit that happens sometimes.