Hi friends!
This might make no sense what-so-ever, but sometimes I'm having a hard time connecting the reasons I have for heading toward a vegan lifestyle with making better choices. I've made plenty of positive changes over the last few months, but I have been in no way "perfect". Which is okay for now. I'm not the type that decides one day to wake up and practice a perfect way of eating. I've failed many diets by doing that. I'm not looking at this as a diet, it is a lifestyle change. I'm not becoming vegan/vegetarian to lose weight (that is why I started looking into it, but the research I found made me more serious about it).
So here is my problem: sometimes, for whatever reason, I can't talk myself out of eating an animal product. "Oh, what's a little cheese?" My reasons include ethical and health reasons. Ethical - horrid conditions for the animals and all that. Health - the crap we get from any animal product (hormones, antibiotics, etc.) isn't good, obviously. I know in my head (and I guess heart) that i want to avoid these things, but sometimes that isn't enough.
How did you get where you are? Was it difficult? Did you have that constant loop through your head "I don't know if I can never eat ____ again."
Yesterday I had a dream where I spent an hour in a convenience store and loaded up on a bunch of processed animal product crap (cheese was a big theme). I woke up craving it all. I was able to calm down from it all and had a wonderful vegan dinner, so I was okay. I feel like I can't classify myself as vegan because I cave in here and there. Maybe I'm overthinking this and should focus on the positive changes I've made.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be much appreciated.