Transitioning to Veganism
While the end goal may be the same for everyone interested in a vegan diet, some people will want to make the changes overnight while others prefer to take a more gradual approach. Choose the speed of your transition that best suits you. If you are having trouble with too much change at once, your best option may be a transition phase where you slowly, over weeks, months, or years make small changes. It is important to strive for progress, not perfection. There is no need to beat yourself up over a regression during your transition.
If your goal is to become vegan and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one vegan meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more vegan meal a week or even have one vegan meal every day of the week.
The next step would be to choose one vegan day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently vegan, such as Monday. This way you always know which day it will be and you can be prepared instead of reaching the end of the week and realizing you have gone all week without a vegan day.
From here you can add another vegan day or two in the week. It might be best to stagger them throughout the week as it might be hard to do two or three vegan days in a row. For example, you can be vegan Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding vegan days until, before you realize it, you are fully vegan.
If your goal is to become vegan and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one vegan meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more vegan meal a week or even have one vegan meal every day of the week.
The next step would be to choose one vegan day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently vegan, such as Monday. This way you always know which day it will be and you can be prepared instead of reaching the end of the week and realizing you have gone all week without a vegan day.
From here you can add another vegan day or two in the week. It might be best to stagger them throughout the week as it might be hard to do two or three vegan days in a row. For example, you can be vegan Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding vegan days until, before you realize it, you are fully vegan.
