Question for all Vegans!!

Question

How do you stop the urge to eat a big cheeseburger or ice cream??I have the urges sometimes and give in sometimes and feel disgusted with myself afterwards....help?/

Answer 1

Well ... first of all, I don't think there's a lot of meat in a cheeseburger ... It's mostly soy :)

Having said that, I do understand how you feel.

But I think you're not really urging the cheeseburger - what you're urging is the emotional reward. At some point in your life, your have have been emotionally "programmed" with something nice in association with having the cheeseburger. Maybe someone used to take you out to have cheeseburgers as a special treat? You miss the feeling, and associate it with the burger.

So you have to locate the emotion, and find other ways to trigger it.

Like I said, there's not much meat in the burger, but in the long run, what you "pay" afterwards, being disgusted with yourself, is going to be a higher price than the reward.

And the you have to "re-program" yourself about meat - just like meat eaters never get an urge to eat raw chicken or earthworms, you have to subconsciously tell yourself, you'd be disgusted with a burger, if you ate as much as one bite :)