I'm en route to taking the full vegan plunge. I would be there already, save for wife & kid that are definitely not vegan, but I make exclusively vegan food for myself now and am 90% vegan.
I never took supplements in the past as a skeptic, but then recently have been logging my food and calories, and a quick check revealed that I was almost definitely not eating enough protein due to the vegan diet, on a fairly regular basis.
I ended up buying a tub of vegan protein (even though I know you're 'supposed' to do it with whole foods...) and at least for the last week, it seems to help a lot with appetite regulation/cravings, likely because I'm now eating my protein quota correctly!
Next I started looking into other things I might be missing - B12, Ca++, iron (less likely), Vit D. There are more, but those are the main 3.
For all you vegan triathletes - what supplements are you taking and why? I definitely would like to minimize supplements if possible and rely on a diverse diet of whole foods instead, but I'm also practical, and would rather play it safe than sorry on the nutrition front. Especially after the whole protein thing.
I never took supplements in the past as a skeptic, but then recently have been logging my food and calories, and a quick check revealed that I was almost definitely not eating enough protein due to the vegan diet, on a fairly regular basis.
I ended up buying a tub of vegan protein (even though I know you're 'supposed' to do it with whole foods...) and at least for the last week, it seems to help a lot with appetite regulation/cravings, likely because I'm now eating my protein quota correctly!
Next I started looking into other things I might be missing - B12, Ca++, iron (less likely), Vit D. There are more, but those are the main 3.
For all you vegan triathletes - what supplements are you taking and why? I definitely would like to minimize supplements if possible and rely on a diverse diet of whole foods instead, but I'm also practical, and would rather play it safe than sorry on the nutrition front. Especially after the whole protein thing.