How was the change?

Question

When you first turned vegetarian/vegan how did you find it? Where your family supportive and did your body like the new change?

I find this sort of thing very interesting so please answer! : )

Answer 1

It's been over 30 years for me, but I liked it since I never enjoyed the taste of meat to begin with. My family are open minded people so they took it well. A couple of my cousins were vegetarian when I stoped eating meat.

Answer 2

I was a vegetarian in high school but had to give it up when I went to live with my grandparents.  

Years down the road, I consciously made the choice to be a vegetarian again, and it took about a week while I adapted my cooking techniques.  In the meat-eating interim since high school, I had decided to go easy on dairy and eggs because of the health aspects, so it was a fairly easy transition to being a vegan.  That part wasn't so much a conscious decision; I realized it when going over my monthly nutrition log!

Answer 3

I was in college and finally able to make my own choices about what I ate.   At that time my parents moved to the countryside.  The got pet chickens and their neighbors had cows.  Suddenly I made the connection between the shrink-wrapped thing in the grocery store and these beautiful animals.  And it dawned on me I was no longer interested in being responsible for their suffering and death.

Answer 4

i come from a family of big meat eaters

the change was really easy for me, i didnt have any meat cravings at all.

My family was very supportive though, and they still are.

My body didnt really change much, i just felt a little healthier

Answer 5

I’ve been vegan for a month now.  I go to Whole Foods and that’s a little out of the way, but the trip is well worth it.  I love that there are so many prepared foods available.  I love the Amy’s line.  And It’s Soy Delicious ice cream rocks.  It’s been really easy for me.  We had one office potluck where I brought in two dishes so I knew I’d have those 2 options if I couldn’t have anything else.  In our department of 40+ people, there’s not another vegan, or vegetarian.  I don’t miss anything.  Unlike most people, I chose to go vegan for health reasons, followed by not contributing to animal cruelty.  I also purchased 3 cookbooks and it’s been great that most recipes can be made vegan by substituting ingredients.  I definitely feel much better-  much more energy.  We’d go out to eat for lunch and everyone comes back wanting to take a nap and I don’t feel that way!  My fiancé and friends have been very supportive.

Answer 6

I love being vegan.  I'm not sure why but it feels like I had a huge burden lifted off my shoulders.  When I made the switch from meat-eater to plant-eater, I lost 30 pounds, my blood pressure lowered, and I no longer have occasional chest pains.

I have this strange fascination with veganism, so I research on the subject quite a bit.  I've read so many books, visited so many websites.  My family was supportive, for the most part, with the exception of people telling me that I don't have to be so "extreme."  They don't know anything.  

My friend's are very supportive.  They always make sure I can eat something if we go to a restaurant (or sometimes we go to vegetarian restaurants) and they are understanding.  Two of my friends have become vegan and another one is currently limiting his meat intake to only when he goes to a barbecue or party.  Success!!

Answer 7

At first I found it really hard to do, now its a lot easier. My family totally supports me, so its going great for me.

Answer 8

a lot of people teased me for a long time (people still do, and its been a year and a half)

but it stopped bothering me--i decided my views would have to be stronger than their ridiculing. sometimes its kinda funny; most people are just playing around.

i used to love meat, actually, so when i said i was going vegetarian, a lot of my family thought that would be over shortly. but it wasn't! =]]

my family supported my decision by helping me to still be able to eat around them. yay for accomodation! friends too. sometimes i feel a bit guilty for going places, since i know people will have to cook me something different most of the time.

well, obviously, since i haven't reverted to meat consumption, I like it. my body, on the other hand, doesnt really seem to care. i didnt gain a lot of weight or lose a bunch of weight. i guess that means i did a good job filling in the nutritional gaps.

i learned a lot of stuff about food and health because i researched vegetarianism a lot before actually converting. (such as the fact that i have more options than i thought i would)so i am less ignorant now than i was before about nutrition (not to mention factory farming, animal rights and all that...)

yay for knowledge!!!!!!!!!!!!

soooooooooooo, yea, thats about it...

hope that answered your question!

Answer 9

I became a vegetarian b/c the thought of eating flesh disgusts me. It is also very cruel. I don't want to be responsible for taking the life of an animal just so I can eat it when there are so many other healthy things to eat.

My body loved the change, my skin became clearer and my periods were lighter and I lost some weight. I can't think of a bad thing to say about it!

Answer 10

my family thought it was just a 'faze' i was going through. then after like 3 months, they realized i was serious. it wasn't hard for me personally. i just thought eating meat was cruel so i stopped. and i didn't get sick or anything from it, i feel like i have more energy now a days. (:

Answer 11

you`d feel healthy after eating your vegetable

Answer 12

I started off slowly, I quit eating cows because I would drive by a farm everyday and see the cows playing.  It started to get to me, then one day I was stopped at a red light eating a Rallys hamburger, I had taken like a bite or two from it.  I looked up and in front of me was a truck that had to cows (a baby and an adult) in the trailer, they were staring at me.  I looked at my burger, looked at them and threw the d**n sandwich away.  Haven't had cow meat since.

Not too long after that an associate of mine came over to my house, he said he started a new job that day at a pig farm.  He said that they picked up the babies, chopped their nuts off and threw them across the room.  He quit immediatley after he saw that happen.  I quit eating pigs after hearing that cause I thought if this guy who is not an animal lover thinks that what they did to those babies is horrible, then it must be pretty bad.

A couple of years later I was researching about becoming a vegetarian, and I found out about factory farms.  After I saw the clip of what was happening to chickens and turkeys, I could no longer stomach eating them anymore.  

My family is not supportive, have never been.  But oh well, I know that I am doing a good thing.

My body did not even notice a change, so yeah it did like it:)

Happy day to you!

Edit:  Yeah, cows playing!  I was surprised when I saw it at first, but they were definetly playing and they did it a lot:)

Answer 13

I was prepared and it was easy.

Cows playing?? I've seen 100,000s of cows and never once seen them playing. They walk, they stand still, sometimes run, eat, lay down, but that's about it.

Answer 14

The first couple of weeks were hard

because it was hard not to eat meat when people r eating it right in front of u

but now i find meat gross