Transitioning to Vegetarianism
While the end goal may be the same for everyone interested in a vegetarian 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 or months make small changes. It is important to strive for progress, not perfection and there is no need to beat yourself up over a regression during your transition.
If your goal is to become vegetarian and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one meat free meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more meat free meal a week or even have one meat free meal every day of the week.
The next step would be to choose one meat free day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently meat free, such as Meat Free Monday (1). 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 meat free day.
From here you can add another meat free 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 meat free days in a row. For example, you can be meat free Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding meat free days until, before you realize it, you are fully vegetarian.
1) http://www.meatfreemondays.com/
If your goal is to become vegetarian and you want to take a gradual approach, you have a few options. The most gradual approach would be to choose one meat free meal a week. If you are looking for more than this, you could either add one more meat free meal a week or even have one meat free meal every day of the week.
The next step would be to choose one meat free day a week. For this step, many people find it easiest to choose one day of the week to be permanently meat free, such as Meat Free Monday (1). 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 meat free day.
From here you can add another meat free 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 meat free days in a row. For example, you can be meat free Monday and Thursday or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. At this point, whenever you are ready, keep adding meat free days until, before you realize it, you are fully vegetarian.
1) http://www.meatfreemondays.com/
