Make Your Vegan Transformation Easier and Life-Lasting

Even though we know that change is inevitable and the only thing that is constant in life, it is difficult to abide by. There are ways we get used to, habits we take on owing to the attachments we discover with these elements in our lifestyle. There is a reward involved; something that we look forward to that makes it difficult to turn away and change that holds us tightly to this sense of attachment.

With this view, if someone asks you to make a major lifestyle change, what do you think is going to be your first response? You will be shocked followed by instant denial. On the further assessment of the topic, knowing and understanding about the benefits, it will still seem difficult, at times impossible to make such a change. For a while, it may also seem worthless to make such a big transformation and you would just like to not think about it rationally.

It takes time; time to be ready for change, time to adjust to it, and time to adapt the new ways fully and whole-heartedly. Similarly, this is what happens when we talk about vegan transformation, a change of diet, and the whole lifestyle to a concept known as veganism. Veganism is a way of life, where what you consume, use, or wear comes from sources that in no way provide any harm to animals. The products are cruelty-free throughout the whole manufacturing, packaging, and selling procedures.

This lifestyle is not only healthy for animals, leaving them off your plate and other items of usage but is healthier for the human body and the environment.

STARTING THE VEGAN LIFESTYLE

• It typically takes about 2-3 weeks for your taste buds to adjust. If it is only a matter of how something tastes, all you need is some patience and a will to hold on.

• With the growing popularity of veganism, many restaurants are adopting it as a part of their serving, and cruelty-free options for dressing up, entertainment, and cosmetics are being widely available. Use the world of the internet to your advantage and explore your options.

• Learning is the essence of life. We learn to grow and we grow when we learn. So, pick up your phones or recipe books and get ready for the initial struggle. If you have been a hardcore non-vegetarian, or someone who doesn’t have too many vegan options around, learning to cook is your mightiest sword. Try, experiment, and learn to know what all you like in the new variety.

• Take a step towards breaking one of the societal norms, questioning the past and future generations, the path is not smooth. People will have queries, sometimes too many and too silly; they will have doubts and speculations too, making you feel like the odd one out. But here comes the importance of being constant, of reminding yourself why you did it in the first place.

• The conditioning that you have grown up with, being non-vegetarian or vegetarian seems “normal” mainly due to the majority attached to it. Hence, finding people with similar interests can help you normalize your new lifestyle, adapt it easily, and learn to live with it faster.

• Staying in touch with the vegan facts, the regular discoveries, the new options to consume, use, and dress and nutrient requirements is important to stay connected. It helps to uncurtain a wide variety of possibilities and gives you a clearer picture of what you need and what you don’t.

• Research, like for any other major change, it holds immense importance here. It helps you to become familiar with all your options like the regular snacking items to the by default or customized dishes at your nearby or favorite food joints. Practical research is essential and it eventually becomes better as you keep scaling up on your new lifestyle switch.

These are a few ways that can cater to your growth as you opt for this lifestyle. As time passes by and you overcome the initial headshots, it will not take a lot of time for you to become a pro. Eventually, you will find yourself adapting it like it was never a stranger you had waved by.

THE NORMAL QUESTION

When you start something new and take your baby steps, along with the societal and peer doubts, there is a lot of self-doubts involved for most people. This usually arises due to the lack of knowledge about the step you are overtaking, a concept that still feels like alien to your surroundings and the fear of failure that encircles your mind.

The above points can work as your cure shots in the initial and further stages. But you also need someone, whom you can talk to and clear the questions that arise. The first step is to be comfortable with the practice of asking, listening, and learning. You will have to answer yourself along with the people around you who have a lesser knowledge of the concept than you. Still being a lesser-known and developing lifestyle, you might have to face questions that often sound unreasonable to even address. But patience is the key here, as every time you answer them, they think of ways to prove you wrong and hence it gives you an overhead to make them think about veganism, to question and find validations to what seems “normal” to them.

These questions may vary from the reason for this drastic change, your inspiration and motivation, and the most common, “What will happen with just you making these sacrifices”? There are going to be many who can make you self-doubt about your intentions and if you will able to pull this off or not. You have to be ready for such situations, without panicking. There are going to be questions about your nutrition needs and if this diet can fulfill them, then the comparison of your ideologies with everything you do, like “Don’t you think the plants feel pain too”?, “what else will butchers and factory workers do, if they get unemployed?”, “what will happen to animal overpopulation?”, “what are the vegan alternatives?”, “how is veganism related to a healthier environment and the human body?” The list is endless and you have to be well-researched to answer these.

As time passes by the practical usage will help you learn a lot but being well-versed to answer each question shows how clear and confident you are about the big step. This gives an impression that leads to conscious questioning of the other person too. So, let’s normalize the concept of being a person who supports the well-being of animals, doesn’t see them as objects of human usage, and fights in their way to make this world a safe and protected environment for animals too.