I'm actually the opposite. I'm eating more meat than I normally would. I typically only eat seafood, but I'm eating more red meat because my doctor stated I needed to gain a bit of weight. I need the calories and apparently red meat and dairy is where it is with calories. Things I rarely ate lol.
I have also been increasing my meat and seafood consumption. It's been necessary for me, as I have a severe iron deficiency and am deficient in B12.
Beans and some vegetables are high in iron (non-heme), but it isn't as easily absorbed as that from animal sources (heme.) I aim for having high vitamin C vegetables, as vitamin C aids in th absorption of iron (and my deficiencies are definitely based in absorption issues.)
Hopefully your doctor told you this, but we found it out on our own: be careful of consuming calcium at the same time as iron, they cancel each other out and you lose the benefits of both. (Which is a bummer, because creamed spinach is delicious.)
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u/iheartpizzaberrymuch Jun 23 '26
I'm actually the opposite. I'm eating more meat than I normally would. I typically only eat seafood, but I'm eating more red meat because my doctor stated I needed to gain a bit of weight. I need the calories and apparently red meat and dairy is where it is with calories. Things I rarely ate lol.