Stay Vegan

I have been vegan for about 4 months. I have no complaints. I would like to continue limiting my preservative/filler/chemical intake. I typically don’t (try not to) eat junk food, vegan or otherwise, and I have been getting flat bread which is vegan but full of chemical preservatives since I haven’t been able to find any otherwise.

Also, I want to stop buying/making vegan cookies and vegan desserts. This is probably something I do once every two weeks, but I end up feeling like crap afterwards. I felt much better without sugar in my diet.

I have no problems keeping this goal up. I can’t really imagine not choosing to stay vegan. Now, to include more raw foods back into my diet.

Eating out is hard. I can order veggies and a salad, and ask for no butter to be put on the veggies, but I can never really be sure. I rarely eat out, but when I do (typically for a social event or gathering) I have a hard time being sure I am vegan and I always feel so bad asking to go to another restaurant. Oh well.

How do you cope?

I switched my goal from “go vegan” to “stay vegan”. I have been vegetarian for about 10 years and was raw vegan for a little over a month. After going raw, it was hard to go back to regular vegetarian eating. I tried to limit my dairy intake but wine and cheese parties overpowered me and I would eat a brick of brie myself, it was disgusting and I felt so terrible after.

I decided to go completely vegan despite my love of cheese and have been for about a month and a half. Now, just to stay vegan.