Vegans Fail

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.

I failed. I’m sorry ok (Follow up from “Militant Vegans”vid)

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