11 Tips for Going Vegan
I recently went vegan...again. I've been vegan several times in my life, once for about 3 years. That was a long time ago, and now that I've made the transition again I wanted to document some of the key things that make the transition easy and painless. When I've read about the transitions made by others it can often sounds easy, like a person just went vegan after some big event in their life - a health scare or a realization about factory farming, or they just decided and that was it. That was how I went vegan originally, but this time it was different. It was just a desire to eat better, lose some weight and get in better shape, but the truth is that none of that made it easy like the first time I did it.
I hear people say, "Oh I could never do that it would be so hard." In reality this time it was easy, but it was about my 10th attempt to really make the transition so I've learned a few things about how to make it easy and how to fail in the transition. I wanted to share my tips in case they are useful for someone else trying to make the transition to a plant based diet.
1) Have a goal. Have some reason to do it. Like I mentioned before sometimes the reason comes suddenly and other times it has to be self-generated. If you haven't been struck with a sudden reason that has made your transition obvious and easy, you may need to come up with something. In my case I picked an ultramarathon that I want to run. It's a really compelling goal for me and I hadn't been making much progress. I linked going vegan with the achievement of the goal and it became much easier.