Fellow Vegans or wanna-Vegans?

ME! I don't eat animal products most of the time. I'm adding you as a friend right now! :flowerforyou:

I am here with you! No meat, no diary, no fish, none of that stuff....and yet...I still seem to manage to eat fattening food! LOL

I'm a wannabe:) I try so hard to at least be vegetarian and most of the time I fail. I am restocking this weekend and replacing stuff with as vegetarian as I can plus I bought a few books today.




I'm sorry I read the OP's post incorrectly and then accidentally reported myself

Vegetarian for 13 years.
Vegan on/off for 4 years. (On/Off because of lactose intolerance and ethical reasonings.)
And once again, Gluten Free, thanks to the intolerance again =\

Nice to see some fellow Vegans =]

It's also nice to see so much variety in some supermarkets now with the dairy free/free from ranges and such.

Hi I have just joined today! I have been vegan for 3 years - vegetarian and vegan (on and off) for most of my life - my diet is really healthy - but I still get overweight! I blame my mother's genes...
I have to be careful not to get too obsessive about it, as I know this can backfire. I prefer to think of it as healthy eating choices, not deprivation. But I do need to be careful what I eat - I am finding it harder to keep the weight off as I get older, and I want to be fit and happy and old, not tired and grumpy and old!!
So joined this website on my iPhone today - and I hope my fellow vegans will inspire me - so nice to find so many on here - people generally assume if you are vegan you are thin - how wrong they are!!!

Hello!

Ive been vegetarian on and off for most of my life and vegan for the last 5 years.
I'm new to this site and have a very looong way to go as i've hit the junk food rather too much over the last 2 years. i'm determind to get my weight into a healthy range now.

Hi, I used to be vegetarian, but 8 years ago I became allergic to dairy (head swelled up/ eyes closed over. was poorly for about 3mths) and found with my being unwell, trying to go vegan was too much, and I ended up eating meat again.

I would love to be vegan for health reasons, as I have piled the weight on since eating meat again.

I tend to have two non meat meals a day, so it's just really the evening meal I need to sort. I find it hard as I am not a lover of beans, and TVP just gives me really bad indigestion.

I suscribe to the vegan magazine here in UK, and keep up to date with the new products, but like the comment before, I hate 'fake' meats and cheese, would rather go without.

What is a typical days menu for you? Would love to know what others eat!

Hi, I used to be vegetarian, but 8 years ago I became allergic to dairy (head swelled up/ eyes closed over. was poorly for about 3mths) and found with my being unwell, trying to go vegan was too much, and I ended up eating meat again.

I would love to be vegan for health reasons, as I have piled the weight on since eating meat again.

I tend to have two non meat meals a day, so it's just really the evening meal I need to sort. I find it hard as I am not a lover of beans, and TVP just gives me really bad indigestion.

I suscribe to the vegan magazine here in UK, and keep up to date with the new products, but like the comment before, I hate 'fake' meats and cheese, would rather go without.

What is a typical days menu for you? Would love to know what others eat!

My food diary is open (Good, Bad AND Ugly). Some days are better than others.

I was vegan for a year, am hoping to start again as it felt good!

Raw vegan here Add me if ya like & my diary is open as well. I eat pretty simply but we are running a raw food challenge/support in another thread - check it out if ya like - tons of great info

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/99327-raw-food-challenge-trying-to-eat-a-cleaner-unprocessed-di

Looks like i'm a little late joining in on this thread but hope to make some vegetarian/vegan friends and get support. I've been vegetarian about 4 months now and working towards vegan...i'm doing well but do eat things sometimes that include cheese or eggs. Would love to keep in touch for supoprt! I'm really excited about my decision to be vegetarian/vegan! I'm trying to lose the last of the weight I gained while pregnant with my son. He'll be a year old very soon and I'm not quite there yet and am embarrassed :-( Hope to get there soon tho! Good luck to everyone!

Hey all,

Vegetarian for quite a few years, and was Vegan for some of them. I eat eggs and dairy, though not much. Dairy makes my belly ache...but I have a love/hate relationship with really good cheese:laugh: I get weak though, sometimes eating fish, but the guilt that come from that isn't worth it in the end :sad: . I chose to be a vegetarian not because I don't like the taste of meat, but for ethical reasons (so it makes me even more ashamed when I cave in). I cannot stand the meat replacements. They are full of preservatives, and are so processed. I really try to limit the amount of soy I consume and seitan also makes my belly ache (concentrated gluten??). My two oldest kids eat no meat, but fish, eggs and dairy. My youngest is a full blown carnivore, like my husband. Hard to cook when you have so many different diets to deal with!! Maybe we can share some recipes?? I am so sick of my menus! Anyway, nice to meet you all.

Hey everyone! I am jumping on this thread. I am not currently even vegetarian, though up until last fall I probably would have considered myself a "flexitarian" (not a huge fan of the word, but basically I only ate meat a couple times a week or so). However, since trying to lose some body fat, I have resorted to the best way that I knew of -- a high-in-animal-protein bodybuilding diet.

Well, I am just feeling all meated-out! I really don't like the thought of it from many different levels. Besides, I have just never really even loved meat! I don't crave it so I feel like it is sort of just cluttering up my grocery shopping, my meal planning and my diet.

So, the more I dug into going vegetarian, the more I found out about the research into the problems with animal protein in general. I listened to some lectures by T. Colin Campbell, the author of The China Study (which I have on reserve at the library) and I think vegan is really the way I need to head. I hesitate to use the label because, as Dr. Campbell points out, you can be a "junk food vegan". I want to have a whole food, plant based diet. I'm not saying I will swear off animal protein 100% of the time and in all situations, but I would like it to comprise a very very small percentage of my calories.

As for now, my boyfriend and I have a lot of meat, eggs, etc. in the fridge. We'll be eating our way through that and then, ideally, stop buying it and stop eating it.

So.... who here has an open diary? I would love to be able to sneak a peak to get some ideas.

So, the more I dug into going vegetarian, the more I found out about the research into the problems with animal protein in general. I listened to some lectures by T. Colin Campbell, the author of The China Study (which I have on reserve at the library) and I think vegan is really the way I need to head. I hesitate to use the label because, as Dr. Campbell points out, you can be a "junk food vegan". I want to have a whole food, plant based diet. I'm not saying I will swear off animal protein 100% of the time and in all situations, but I would like it to comprise a very very small percentage of my calories.

As for now, my boyfriend and I have a lot of meat, eggs, etc. in the fridge. We'll be eating our way through that and then, ideally, stop buying it and stop eating it.

So.... who here has an open diary? I would love to be able to sneak a peak to get some ideas.

I feel like I'm in a similar place as you are. My priority is eating mostly healthy, whole, non-animal foods. I'm definitely not in a place, either, where my goal is to be perfectly vegan but rather that I'm only consuming trace amounts of, if any, animal products.

My husband is a meat-eater and probably always will be. He can't even comprehend any inkling of why a person would stop eating meat. So unfortunately, there will still be some animal products in the house but I'm going to try to cut him down without him knowing lol. I've already added you as a friend and my diary is open for friends to view.

I'm glad I came upon this thread.....I also am joining late. I currently do not eat any meat, I have only been vegetarian for 10 months now. I could use any support and ideas I can get. I currenlty eat alot of meat "replacements" and this is not something my family and I would like to do forever. But for now, it helps still with the transition. My son and husband are meat eaters but very open to trying pretty much anything I make. As of right now the only dairy I really consume is by cheese...I have purchased vegan cheese to try before and it wasn't bad....the cost is what had made me not purchase it again but I am really wanting to become vegan so I will be getting some vegan cheese....and I dont' eat alot of cheese. I also eat eggs on and off. We live in a rural type area and its a "fall back" item for when we go out to eat and what not.....I don't want it to be that way. I'd like to just transition into veganism. We would also like to cut processed foods as much as possible. So our goal is 2 times per week have vegan meals and cut out processed foods to start.....

Feel free to add me as a friend or throw any suggestions, ideas, etc. my way.

Glad to meet everyone!!

Hi Jennifer, I added you One thing that I find that has helped me to not rely much on meat replacements is to build my meal around a veggie or veggies. I think we're so used to building a meal around the protein source, but really the veggies should compose about half your meal, so it makes more sense to build it around them. I find that when I buy a bunch of yummy veggies at the Farmer's Market, pick which one I'd like to have, and form my meal from that starting point, I tend to rely less on meat replacements. It just seems like it's a lot easier to think, "Ooo I have lots of good salad veggies, maybe I'll throw some chick peas on top" than "I have a can of chick peas, what the heck am I going to make with these?"