First post!!

[buddha_bellie]

Although I have a couple other LJ accounts, this one has been created to document my transition from a vegetarian lifestyle into a vegan one. I am very excited for this new quest in my life.

For the past 13 or 14 years, I have lived a very loose vegetarian lifestyle, eating dairy products and soups with a chicken broth base on a fairly regular basis

Comments

[badmoviescript]

Cheese is addicting and it really is the hardest habbit to break for most people. I've been vegan for about a year and a half now, and the smell of cheese has become absolutely revolting to me. The idea of ever eating that shit again is just disgusting for me. I still live with my parents (in the summer, I'm in college the rest of the year thankfully) and it's hard living around so much that I'm opposed to and coming home from work and smelling cheese or meat cooking on the stove.
I still struggle with the smallest animal byproducts that show up in the weirdest places (for example, lsat month I bought a carton of orange juice with calcium and the vitamin D3 in it comes from sheep wool! wtf is sheep anything doing in orange juice?). But I find that you can't beat yourself up about things like that. It's a learning process but is definitely the most rewarding decision I've made in my life.