I'm longtime vegetarian too, but yeah cheese is great and for me hard to give up. Good for you for giving it up if you want. We try a lot of the vegan cheese in our house and yeah some is so foul and not even organic or really healthy, plus peeyew smelling. Those round nice expensive ones--name forgotten--are good, mostly cashew and in mozzerella style and actually decent.

I was off mfp for a long time and just started again yesterday--have not been losing weight but have toned up muscles tremendously with a little underdesk elliptical pedal-pusher thing while sitting and reading, and another for arms on the table. They have helped me so much with toning.

I stick with organic when I can, and have just been throwing organic vegetables into and on everything, and protein--just ordered organic unsweetened vegetable protein powder to add to everything, since I believe higher rotein is really helpful and is what i was missing when first vegetarian and pretty much living on mac and cheese and pizza etc.

Oh well. Good luck to all!