Originally posted by dumpstervegan
Yeah! Just remember that EVERYONE screws up from time to time. The most important things to remember about the transition are A) you'll slip up occasionally,
Plus don't get sucked in by all the moralizing crud you hear. Back in my days of vegan activism I met a lot of people turned off by some PETA kid screaming at them for using the soap in a public bathroom or something.
B) it's okay to slip up occasionally (but don't be negligent just so you can eat Oreo cookies!),
Yeah, and again, don't think you've gotta be some kind of perfect vegan, like it's healthy to resist the urge to go give away all your wool clothes tomorrow or whatever.
> C) the first year or two are the hardest, after that you'll forget you're Vegan until someone reminds you,
Yeah, that's kinda weird but true. What's even funnier is that I became a vegan after ten years as a veg and it seems way less obtrusive now than that ever did. Or maybe it's just growing up....
even cooking professionally I didn't feel like it mattered much.
>D) Simply Vegan (look for it on Amazon, it's an awesome book) >has a Vegan meal planner, grocery list, and more nutritional i>nformation than you can shake a stick at.
ARRRGGHH, not goliath. Get it straight from the vrg (vrg.org). I also recommend Ginny Messina's The Vegetarian Way (even though she left me out of the acknowledgements.
>Best of luck and if I can be ANY resource at all, please let me >know!
Yeah, ditto. Don't forget that Pearl Izumi makes nice leather-free bike gloves, and it's not so hard to scrounge a decently comfortable non-leather seat, even for a fix.