It's nice to meet y'all!

nice to see the word "y'all" has spread to california!!

when i lived in sf they said that word always outed me as to where I *really* came from.

Let's see if if can do this right this time, so my response makes sense!

I use y'all all the time, and I'm a native Californian. I think it's a very functional solution to the 2nd person plural. It's a much nicer term than 'youse', which I also use on occasion.

I'm in central FL, and I get looks saying y'all.

Hi. I did a 30 day vegan challenge in August, 2013 and have stuck with it!! It is wonderful. I find I really enjoy cooking and always love new receipes!!

Hello!!

I'm Blu and I have been vegan for just over a year now. I went vegan straight from being an omni after making many excuses, but I realised in the end that my conscience just couldn't hold it up anymore.

I'm new back to MFP - its been a long time since I was here last, but I remember how important it was having friends and support so if anyone would like to add me, please do :-)

Hello!
I went vegetarian in Nov. 2013. I love wildlife and I have been very upset by the killing of wolves by ranchers. I decided that I would never again support those ranchers by buying meat. Then I started learning about the treatment of animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses. I was horrified! I believe all animals have feelings and the right to live in peace. I finally decided I could no longer in good conscious consume dairy and eggs, so I went vegan in March. I wish I would have made this choice many years ago.
Since going vegan, I am healthier than ever. I am losing weight and I feel great!
I want to reach my goal weight to inspire others to eat a kinder diet.

Hi there...I am 100% vegan for health, ethical, and environmental reasons. I have been either vegetarian or vegan over most of my life with the occasional break here and there. This time around in my veganism I started on December 29th, 2014 and it feels a lot different...I feel more mature about it if that makes sense

Anyhoo...I am 6'0 and 216.4 lbs as of yesterday. I east mostly whole foods and very little vegan junk food. I walk 4 miles a day and I feel super healthy! I just wish this weight would come off!

Hi everyone -
I am attempting to slowly transition to a vegan high protein diet. I am still slowly eating up foods around the house that have animal protein (Just throwing them out would be disrespectful, the damage is done so I should respect the sacrifice, I feel) but in the meantime I am trying to learn about good protein sources and combine legumes with grains with soy each day for instance so I can hopefully get all the amino acids I need to get. It's going to take a while to eat through my Whey Protein Powder but that will probably be the last item to go. I just bought a Vegan Protein Powder so I'm all set there.

I was vegetarian once before but I started to lose my hair because I just didn't care about calories, veggies, or macros and I was likely super low on protein. I basically lived on pasta and cheese. Vegan sounded too "hard" back then and then social pressure made me back off. Well I'm back now with all the foods that I avoided before and it is really pretty doable. Seitan for instance is an amazing source of protein and I will make my first batch tomorrow from scratch. I'm hoping that since I'm educating myself and slowly making good changes that this will be one that sticks. Also I'm planning to tell my family that "I am trying to eat more plant based foods" rather than "I'm cutting out all animal products" as I just want to be able to make this transition and change without judgment.

Basically doing this because I don't believe there's a farm out there that can raise meat in a cruelty free way (Despite their marketing), and most definitely if there is, most milk/eggs don't come from those places.

Whole foods plant based - Vegan in diet, but I still wear leather shoes and belts and there's wool in my suits. Also, no refined/processed/bleached foods like oil, white flour, white rice, corn syrup.

So, I'm diabetic, cardio patient with one heart attack, 5 stents. I'm trying to lose weight, become healthier, and reverse some of this damage I have done to this body in my 45 years. At the time of this writing, I'm ending my second week with no meat, no dairy, no eggs, and no honey. But when ya can have Engine 2 hummus or their wild rice and black bean tacos with fresh pico de gallo, who the heck would want carcass?

Hi I'm Ally, I live in Austin Texas and I am also looking for friends and support. I am looking to lose 30-40 pounds and have been unsuccessful thus far on my own. I am new to veganism (2 months) but I am feeling better everyday. I finally decided to make the jump to vegan for health and moral reasons. I look forward to learning more. Please feel free to add me as a friend if you are looking for support too.

Hello everyone I'm Christina and I'm 27y/o. I'm not yet vegetarian. I have been researching about becoming vegetarian before I convert all the way just because I know there are some nutrients that are a little harder to find in a plant based diet. I really want to get to vegan diet because of the health benefits plus my daughter has read something about the animals that we eat and she was not very happy about it and to be honest I was disgusted by it and we would like to have animals to love not eat :-) please if you can give me some pointers also I'm trying to transition my entire family over so if you have some recipes that will kind of trick my husband into feeling and tasting that he is eating meat would really help just because he is not against the transition but he misses the beefy flavor or meat flavors and some textures as well :-) thank you all so much :-)

Hi. I have been vegan for about 7 years. Haven't looked back since then! Although I am generally healthy, exercise regularly, and eat super healthy, I have let the stress of my job and life get to me the last couple of years by snacking a lot and skipping workouts. Looking to get back into prime shape so I don't have to buy new work clothes (my job requires that I dress fairly nice, which I definitely do not do otherwise).