Vegan Diet plan

Is it better to become a vegan gradually or cold turkey?

I'm a guy, I just turned 30 years old and I'm 5'7, about 225 lbs. I have been yo-yo dieting most of my 20s and I just keep gaining and gaining weight. Yesterday I decided to become a vegan but I'm going to do it gradually. I came up with a plan. I gave up red meat, then in 2 months i will give up poultry, then 2 months after that I will give up fish and seafood and so on. Is this the right approach? I tried doing the vegetarian and vegan thing a few years ago but I did it cold turkey (no pun intended).. and I failed like after 2 or 3 weeks. I'm just tired of being fat and out of shape. I really think that going vegan is the best way to be healthy, help the environment and prevent unnecessary suffering of animals.

I think it depends on your main motivation. If (like me) you decided to become vegan for mainly ethical reasons, then the thought of eating meat/animal products will start to feel quite nauseating. You can't be kinda pregnant, and you can't be kinda vegan - it's all the way or nothing.

However, if you are doing it mainly for health and weight loss reasons, then it's fine to take it slowly. I don't agree with the people talking about using a lot of 'fake meat' - try gradually decreasing the portion size of the meat an increasing your vegetable, fruit, pulses (beans, chickpeas, lentils etc) and wholegrain carb intake. Make sure you use lots of herbs and spices, and different flavours, and start experimenting with foods you might not have tried before like quinoa, ackee, tofu etc.

If you are struggling, get a really good vegan cookbook (put in 'vegan' on Amazon, loads will come up), and join an online forum like www.veganforum.com for support.

Good luck, I hope you stick with it. I have been vegan for just over 5 months, and my weight has settled at the bottom end of my healthy BMI range. My skin is great and I feel really healthy mentally as well.

Travelling on a low fat raw vegan diet. Take a look at the food in my kitchen and fridge.

Are ingredients for Newman O's Vegan?

I have been vegan for a few weeks and am really craving some cookies. I believe they are but I am new to being vegan, are any of these ingredients not vegan?

Yes. Very Vegan..

And so are Oreos.... (even though they are terrible for you) haha

Enjoy!!!

And congrats on becoming a vegan, best choice you will ever make!

Vegan Cookies!!!

If I buy pet food for my dog and cat, am I still a vegan?

I refuse to turn them vegetarian as it's natural and healthy for them to eat meat.
Mr.What, I didn't thumbs down you.

If you're eating a vegan diet, I'd say you are vegan. Some things are just unavoidable, or out of your control. Me driving my brother to Catholic mass doesn't make me a Catholic, though I'm not happy about it either, by the way, to make a point. You do what your loved ones rely on you for, in this case feeding them what their bodies require. What you do with your body, agenda and time is yours though, and I'd call you vegan.

You probably had your pets before you became vegan and you have a larger priority in taking care of your carnivorous cat and omnivorous dog, you made a commitment to them before you made a commitment to yourself. By the way, dogs ARE omnivores and can eat vegetarian diets, but cats simply cannot, lacking a source of taurine being the least of the issues if you look at the big picture... and I don't care how many grapes my mom's cat tries to steal from me, they're carnivores.

A concern would lie in how you might be inadvertently funneling money towards animal agriculture and the meat industry anyway since you are purchasing the pet food. If you could, perhaps look into vegetarian-friendly pet food for your dog, and look into somewhat more ethically sourced pet food for your cat. There are expensive but credible free-range, organic pet food companies that are at least the lesser evil than supporting big bad animal agriculture or worse, letting your animals become malnourished.

Still, I'd say it's a moot point to get down on you about this, since there's no way anyone is completely vegan. The rubber rings built into our shower heads have animal ingredients, there are bone and fat ingredients in cement everywhere we go, we have trace amounts of dairy and eggs and even animal products on just about everything we buy, even if it's not in the ingredients list, because of cross-contamination in a large-scale manufacturing setting. Heck, I am killing living animals - dust mites, namely - as we speak. There is a dust mite genocide on my body all year long, but I am still vegan. Some things are out of our control, or just take it too far past our capabilities. One day your pets will pass away, but it's best it would be after a long and healthy life, not two years from now because they're malnourished! Then maybe get some vegetarian rabbits or try a vegetarian-fed dog, or maybe a pony, whatever you want really... Some vegans even object to keeping pets, so you can't please everybody anyway.

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What are some simple basic elements that can take a low price for a novice vegan?

I'm in a very low budget as $ 30 a week for grocery items, and I eat out occasionally. I'm not a good cook, I am interested in becoming a vegan. I'm just myself. Very basic need to prepare simple dishes, because I'm on a tight budget, plus I'm trying to lose weight as fast as possible to limit my calories.

Brown rice, pasta, potatoes, tofu, green leafy vegetables, fruits, etc. Best to find some recipes that interest you before you go shopping to know what to buy. Check this, for example, weight loss http://www.veganmeat.com/recipie.html By: http://www.fatfreevegan.com/

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