Hey everyone, im new to this forum, and forums in general, but this one looks great!

basicaly im 20years old, ive been a vegetarian for almost three years now, and i love it, its great (was never a meat eater anyways). but ive been doing some reading about health and stuff, plus ive been wanting to go vegan for about a year now, and ive moved out for the first time this summer (besides rez, next to imposible to be vegan in meal hall) so i thought this would be the best chance to try it.

(i work for a landscape company so im on my feet all day, but in past i always was anyways, plus im an athlete, ive done 2 half marathons, and some other runs, and last summer i started getting into triatholons (funstuff!), and ive taken kyaking courses etc... so that shouldnt be a problem)

also i try to avoid gluten as much as possible (dont eat bread, pasta, white potatos, started useing rice flour sometimes etc...), and when i go out places ive been lax with the vegan thing (but not the vegetarian thing, haha)

so its been almost a month sence i started and about two weeks ago i started feeling really tierd, like i slept for 11hours straight ( which i never do, im the kind of person who gets up at 6am and gose kyaking, which i cant do now that im in the city :P ) and last night i slept for 12hours straight, 8hours the night before, with a 2hour nap in between (its raining pretty hard so work gets called off)

plus i just started getting light headed from standing up from weeding  gardens and stuff, the skin on my face feels really gridy, and i dont feel like doing things any more (could be due to lack of light and constant cold in this basment apartment, and from the rain, and also more screen time then im used to, im a third party here, so its kinda lonley), ive also recently been bloated and gassy, but it hasint been uncomfortable, just anoying and embarrassing.

my diet is incredibly healthy, ive never been one to eat all that much, the only things i splerge on are peppermints(full of sugar) and chocolate (cause its the one thing that i really love), ive been conscious about getting enough water (sometime a prob, theres not always a bathroom, lol), and theres at least some protien everytime a eat someting (mostly because i want to build musles).

i dont know if this is just a normal little fase that has nothing to do with going vegan or not, but its the only thing that i can think of, and i cant find answers anywhere else, hopefully someone can help/ give tips, whatever!! i dont really want stop! i`d feel failure and guilt !!

(this tured out to be a really long post, sorry! and sorry about any spelling and grammar mistakes !!)

(oh! and i made this super chocolatey vegan, rice flour chocolate cake acople days ago cause it was raining, and that when the bloating started, but that could be fluck)