most of the soy chees has casin. I have tried a casin free soy cheese and it was terrible. i look at it like its probably 1% the dairy vs normal cheese. I have also become more lax in the past year. the things i need to not eat have creapt back in -- cookies, milk chocolate -- but i have cut out soda as my trade off. the deserts were orginally a big motivator to cut dairy. the other was to force myself to eat more veggies, but now that all the fake meat/dairy stuff is easy to get outside whole foods/co-ops/speciality stores its kind of a wash.

in general i dont eat well. my "dieting plan" is to gradually work towards just eating better -- overall diet change vs short term starving, and to try to avoid using my car, biking instead. also trying to cut down my beer intake.

and for ref. veg 6yrs, then vegan 7yrs, back slide past yr and half. im 6' 245lbs and sit in front of a computer all day.

ideally it would be nice to drop about 40lbs but i dont tend to pay that much attention and dont own a scale to check my weight.