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Hello there, I've been reading and eating pretty healthily over the last years. I've never really liked (red) meat, but do still eat/ate chicken, fish and seafood. Although flirting more and more with vegetarianism, and getting guiltier and more discusting, still didn't make the full step. Partly thank to Alicia's book, I've made a decision at last! I am planning to go totally vegan for at least a month, starting somewhere in january. The reason that I don't want to start immediatly, is that I first want to investigate all the claims about veganism. That way I can be strong in my convictions, and be able to defend myself with the best of knowledge en certainty.
I want to share this journey with everyone, so i started a blog about it. You can find it here: http://tobeveganornottobe.wordpress.com/ and on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ToBeVeganOrNotToBe?ref=stream
I don't think I'll wait that long to become a true vegetarian though. The guilt and sadness I feel every time I eat some meat is getting too much.
Unfortunately, my man doesn't want to join me :( doesn't want to hear about it, doesn't want to see the truth. Whenever I tell him to think about what that steak represents, that it's a piece of cow, slaughtered, he just tells me to stop saying that and let him enjoy his meat. Because he likes the taste and thinks he needs it. I do hope that I can slowly, piece by piece, make him see reality.. The bad thing is that I'll still have to buy his meat and cook it. Not looking forward to that.

i also encourage people to become a vegan. I think that it's a positive lifestyle in the modern age now and it will help us avoid some diseases such as obesity. You can advise your man by reducing the amount of meat he has grandually so maybe he will change his mind

Thanks for the comments!
I'm always the one to do the cooking in the house, so he basically has to eat whatever I prepare ;) And since I really don't feel like preparing 2 different meals every day, he only gets his meat 2 or 3 times a week. Fortunately, he doesn't complain very much about that. I think he should be happy that I still want to prepare his steak :)
Positive thing is that he usually likes the vegetarian/vegan things I maken, so that's a step in the right direction!
I still have some fish to clean out of my freezer, and then I'll become a fulltime vegetarian. And after newyear, it's the vegan step.

(btw I've bought myself the veganomicon, and I love it, so much good recipes :p )

I only meant to go vegetarian after reading Alicia's book, but I became a vegan without even realizing it! I upped the veggies and grains and found that I didn't really crave dairy anymore (I was never much of an egg eater). The first dish I ever cooked for my guy was vegan, and he loved it without even realizing it was vegan. I usually don't try to encourage people to be vegan because they are probably more likely to rebel. I instead cook tasty things for them that make them realize it's not all rabbit food! (very sneaky) To make your transition to veganism easier, remind yourself that you can cheat if you want to. Sometimes acknowledging that we are allowed to do something makes us less likely to do it! Eventually, you won't even want to cheat!

I wanted to include the common example of fetal neural tube defects that occur as a result of insufficient vitamin B12 in a pregnant mother's diet. B12 is usually consumed in milk, eggs, and meat. B12 is critical to spinal development in babies that occurs in the first 28 days after conception. Folate and sometimes B12 injections are prescribed to handle deficiency if the pregnancy is even know about in time. This is not to scare anyone off but just to encourage people to really look into typical vegan nutrient deficiencies and to realize it requires more work to plan a diet that compensates for these.