The questions I am most often asked since becoming a vegan include; "is it difficult to dine out?", "is it more expensive to be vegan?", "where do you buy groceries?" and so on. Basically, people are asking me if it is hard. Yes, it can be, especially at first, but I didn't decide to be vegan because I thought it would be easy.
At first, making a huge dietary (or lifestyle, as I like to think of it) change is difficult. It takes a lot of motivation which you yourself have to create. Just like doing something as difficult as quitting smoking or running a marathon, in the end, you have to be the one believing in your cause.
For me, it started as a New Year's resolution (beginning of 2010). I had been an on again off again vegetarian for awhile and over the holidays I had eaten too much of everything. By the time New Year's eve rolled around, I felt like you could roll me around! I vowed to myself that I would start the year off vegan and see how long I could stand it.
After two months, I was starting to miss my old pals; cheese and shrimp. After six months, I started eating cheese again. I sort of fell off the wagon for awhile. That's when I decided that becoming vegan for health reasons alone wasn't enough for me. That is when I read 'Animal Liberation' by Peter Singer and 'Skinny Bitch' by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. I won't get into the specifics of what I learned but I definitely felt armed with new information and loads more motivation.
It has since been seventeen months (completely vegan) and I feel really great! My lifestyle has changed drastically and I finally feel like I am living in a way that is more in tune with my sensibilities.
The major difficulty I had in the beginning was trying to find vegan resources in Toronto. My hope is that this website/blog will provide you with some of the information I had to struggle to find and be a forum for those wanting to know more about being vegan. Also, I hope that it will inspire you to think positively about veganism while getting to know me! Cheers!
At first, making a huge dietary (or lifestyle, as I like to think of it) change is difficult. It takes a lot of motivation which you yourself have to create. Just like doing something as difficult as quitting smoking or running a marathon, in the end, you have to be the one believing in your cause.
For me, it started as a New Year's resolution (beginning of 2010). I had been an on again off again vegetarian for awhile and over the holidays I had eaten too much of everything. By the time New Year's eve rolled around, I felt like you could roll me around! I vowed to myself that I would start the year off vegan and see how long I could stand it.
After two months, I was starting to miss my old pals; cheese and shrimp. After six months, I started eating cheese again. I sort of fell off the wagon for awhile. That's when I decided that becoming vegan for health reasons alone wasn't enough for me. That is when I read 'Animal Liberation' by Peter Singer and 'Skinny Bitch' by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. I won't get into the specifics of what I learned but I definitely felt armed with new information and loads more motivation.
It has since been seventeen months (completely vegan) and I feel really great! My lifestyle has changed drastically and I finally feel like I am living in a way that is more in tune with my sensibilities.
The major difficulty I had in the beginning was trying to find vegan resources in Toronto. My hope is that this website/blog will provide you with some of the information I had to struggle to find and be a forum for those wanting to know more about being vegan. Also, I hope that it will inspire you to think positively about veganism while getting to know me! Cheers!
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