We ate bacon for breakfast the day after we decided to transition to eating vegan. It felt strange, but when we opened the fridge we realized we had it full of all the things we decided not to eat. Vintage white cheddar, bacon, eggs and butter. We have lots of chicken in our freezer. So we talked about the whole concept of transitioning. We have no desire to be wasteful of the food we already have. The transition will be just that. A transition. We aren't even sure at this point if we'll be able to sustain a truly vegan diet. If we can get 95% of the way there, we will be happy with ourselves.
It will probably take a month to work through everything in the house. Then what? Although I'm excited to try this, I'm a bit concerned too. I have tried to eat vegetarian before. It failed. I was training really hard as a competitive master's rower and it got to the point where I couldn't sustain not eating meat. The day I broke will live in infamy (with Steve anyway). Steve said I "went feral" and demanded we drive immediately to a local BBQ restaurant where I devoured an order of beef ribs. I remember the day like it was yesterday.
So what makes me think we can do this now? I'm not sure we can but I'm willing to try. I'm willing to try and be smart about it. I know I didn't do that before. I did not track protein intake. I did not pay attention to eating good, whole natural food. I still ate a lot of junk. I didn't eat nuts or legumes or soy protein. We didn't grow our own vegetables. We just didn't give it much thought beyond not eating meat.
This time, I'll be paying attention.
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