becoming vegan

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  • freckles_cmj
    freckles_cmj Posts: 205 Member
    Whatever you do, an integral part of being Vegan is making sure EVERYONE knows about it.

    Duncan was a vegetarian, not a vegan, and was for two years before passing. IF two years isn't enough time for the vodoo to work, why bother?

    You can be vegetarian (and vegan for that matter) and still have a terrible diet. Oreos are vegan.

    Could never do voodoo...that involves hurting chickens. If you are going to toss insults around at least make sure they make sense :laugh:
  • allylbrown
    allylbrown Posts: 71
    I am a vegan (mostly sometimes I eat egg whites) I am currently 45 and I stopped eating pork at 26. So with that said I took awhile to totally transition. I think it takes time to learn how to eat vegan (with out becoming anorexic) and getting adequate nutrients! I take vitamin B12, vitamin D and calcium daily....religiously or my lab levels are low. My pcm draws labs on me twice a year since I eat a vegan to make sure my levels are adequate. I gave up milk and red meat at 28 and chicken and fish around 38. To be honest fish (not shelled fish) was the hardest for me to give up and If I am in a bind and have no other choice I will still eat fish. Probably TMI but I think it is important to make the change gradually so it will last for a lifetime. I use Genuine Health protein brand and hemp protein and garden of life vitamins. All u can get at Vitamin Shoppe. My proteins are not soy based and I mostly stay away from soy products that look like meat!!! Feel free to add me as a friend and look at my diary. Good Luck
  • mfaine
    mfaine Posts: 84 Member
    I too am trying to adopt a vegan lifestyle and it has set me back a bit since I had a fairly effective diet for maintaining my weight and I find I eat a lot more carbs when eating a vegan diet. I do well on a diet that consists of a lot of protein so that has also been a problem since one can only eat so much soy. I'm learning and adjusting, but I think it will just take time. For me, one thing that has helped is to not try to go cold turkey (pun absolutely not intended) but to allow myself to just think about eating more "vegan" whenever I can with the goal of always trying to do a little bit more but not ever getting OCD about it.

    It is very hard finding prepackaged foods that are vegan. I live alone and find I do better with counting my calories if I eat mostly prepackaged foods that can be considered a "known quantity" when it comes to calorie counts. Calculating homemade recipes is much more demanding of my time and likely to be less accurate. Not to mention I enjoy the convenience of having something easy to prepare for lunch. However, I've eaten every Amy's vegan frozen entree they make about a dozen times and I've had just about enough :) The grocery stores and food manufacturers really need to step up their game.

    Also, I have a hard time with admitting it to others since I don't want to be seen as the stereotypical vegan. As the joke goes, "You know how you can tell who are the vegans in the room? Don't worry, they'll tell you." I don't want to identify as vegan since a lot of the vegans I've met actually are very judgmental, holier-than-thou, evangelist, hipsters. I don't want to identify with that. I'm hoping that a vegan lifestyle can just be another thing that I do, not who I am.
  • beezipper
    beezipper Posts: 18 Member
    I'm not a book pusher, per se, but if you're interested in veganism, I recommend Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live. It gives you a different perspective than that of the moral/social that you might find with a lot of vegan materials - it's all about the nutrition aspect of it.
  • lilylux
    lilylux Posts: 109 Member
    Firstly, haters gon' hate.
    Secondly - if it hasn't been said before - chocolatecoveredkatie.com - delicious and healthy and vegan desserts!! Yum.
  • Rynatat
    Rynatat Posts: 807 Member
    I am Plant Strong. I will avoid disreputing or arguing with anyone, there's been enough of that already in this thread; I'll just give my take.

    In November my husband watched Forks Over Knives with me & he decided that it was time for him. I was already mostly there (Celiac's since birth, dairy & soy intollerant, stopped enjoying red meats a couple years ago, didn't like eggs anymore, etc.), so for me to switch was easy. It made sense. I dropped 10 lbs in a month, my husband has lost over 15 & looks & feels healthy again. I workout stronger & harder than ever before. I'm upping weights & combating fatigue, high stress & depression better than ever (I haven't taken pills or meds in years & would like to avoid those for the rest of my life).

    You're welcome to view my diary - it is open. I log almost everything (even my over-eating days!), and have been creating new things for both of us to enjoy. Once I actually get a recipe to work, I'll log it fully (sometimes it's a partial log, but you can always ask if you're not sure).

    PS - the profile pic was just taken a couple days ago, there is definition in my back that I have been working years to get & never quite achieved until recently. Yes, I'm confident I'm on the correct path of life for me.
  • liittlesparrow
    liittlesparrow Posts: 209 Member
    I'm a vegetarian, trying to slowly slip into vegan. My diary is open so I hope we can help each other out :D!
  • gingerveg
    gingerveg Posts: 748 Member
    Whatever you do, an integral part of being Vegan is making sure EVERYONE knows about it.

    Duncan was a vegetarian, not a vegan, and was for two years before passing. IF two years isn't enough time for the vodoo to work, why bother?
    We wouldn't need to talk about it if "corpse-consumption" wasn't assumed :flowerforyou:
  • angmarie28
    angmarie28 Posts: 2,895 Member
    I mever buy or wear clothes made from animals
  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    Oreos are vegan.

    well bugger me. i was going to be condesending about not knowing what the word vegan meant, but thought i would double check ingredients before making an *kitten* of myself.

    turns out you are correct. a cream centre chocolate biscuit with no dairy to be seen. who woulda thunk it.
  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
    We wouldn't need to talk about it if "corpse-consumption" wasn't assumed :flowerforyou:

    Delicious beefy corpses.
  • freckles_cmj
    freckles_cmj Posts: 205 Member
    Oreos are vegan.

    well bugger me. i was going to be condesending about not knowing what the word vegan meant, but thought i would double check ingredients before making an *kitten* of myself.

    turns out you are correct. a cream centre chocolate biscuit with no dairy to be seen. who woulda thunk it.

    of course I am correct...I am not foolish enough to post it otherwise :laugh: too bad i have never liked oreos tho...:frown:
    You would be surprised there is a lot of junk food that is "accidentally vegan" so it is possible to eat nothing but junk on a vegan diet.
  • freckles_cmj
    freckles_cmj Posts: 205 Member
    We wouldn't need to talk about it if "corpse-consumption" wasn't assumed :flowerforyou:

    Delicious beefy corpses.

    seriously dont you have anything better to do than troll posts about vegan eating? We get it, you like meat. good for you. You obviously have no other reason to post in this thread than to try to annoy. Get off the computer and go talk to someone, read a book...do something productive.

    Have a nice day

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