Veganism Part 2…but really 1
Okay, let me clarify. It’s really fucking hard to continuously avoid dairy because everything delicious has it sneakily tucked in. Like cookies from Panera. I mean, you could totally plan all your meals for the week and cook everything the Sunday before and bring your own food to work for once instead of wasting money, you lazy piece of shit.
But since you won’t, you may find yourself casually going out to lunch with your coworkers to escape the oppressive feeling of being in the corporate office for the only 40 mins you’re allowed to not be sitting in your sad corner JUST IN CASE someone needs you. And when that happens you may have tried super hard to build a beautiful, not lame, totally vegan Panera salad. And you start to feel proud of yourself, like, “maybe I can actually do this for two weeks”. And then you get a pop-up asking if you want a free cookie. And you say, “yes, of course”, because who doesn’t like free shit.
You honestly forget that baked goods typically need dairy to be delicious. You have your salad. You have your cookie. You go about your entire day thinking, “Day 1 of being vegan, not so bad!”. You’re looking forward to the cooking the vegan dinner you planned for yourself that night. You get home, you cook said dinner, you’re feeling good. You make some delicious pumpkin-chocolate-chip cookies that are totally vegan.
Then, your roommate gets back and asks you how Day 1 went. It suddenly dawns on you. You’ve already fucked up. You didn’t even make it 12 hours. You didn’t even make it 4 hours. You and your roommate start to hatch up excuses like, “oh well, you can just be vegan at HOME but be vegetarian when you’re eating out”. But you know it’s a lost cause. You’ve already failed. You give up for the rest of week 1 (although you *do* continue to be vegan for the one meal you eat at home). You have pizza (twice), a caprese sandwich, and gnocchi with tomato sauce, basil and mozzarella (which you could totally have gotten without mozz but you didn’t because you’re a quitter).
It’s fine. You’ll try again. It’s all about the process. It’s a lifestyle change not a diet. You got this, I promise.