#almostrawfullyvegan

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When you’ve been vegan for over 2 years and you realise your former fave treat was vegan the whole time… #almostrawfullyvegan #abundance #indulgence #chocolate #vegan

- Well, could you please think this over?

But it feels like as if it was yesterday that I went vegan and on the other hand, I don't even remember why and how I could eat animal foods. People claim that this lifestyle is extreme but I think this is the most obvious choice ever.

I went vegan on 25th May 2013. I remember my last non vegan meal, it was a veggie quesadilla with cheese, sour cream and cheese sauce. I used to be such a dairy queen. In the summer of 2013, I would eat two cantaloupes for breakfast, blueberries before lunch, 8-12 peaches for breakfast, about 2 pounds of apricots in the afternoon and humongous salads with avocados and sun dried tomatoes in the evening. I became a fruitarian and I enjoyed my life so much. That time, I didn't have a job and I had all the time in the world for munching on fruit, experimenting with vegan and even raw vegan recipes, exercising and sleeping to my heart's content. In January 2014, I got a full time job. First, I tried to stick to my raw till 4 fruitarian diet. I would exclude myself from socialising with colleagues because I didn't want to eat cooked food at lunch time. I made my diet an absolute priority over my social life. This had to change. Soon, I found myself in my vegan junk food era. I would eat anything that was vegan, such as vegan pizza, french fries, veggie burgers, crisps, oreos, vegan ice-cream, greasy stir-fried noodles, soy products, vegan cheese, etc. It took me quite a long time to create a balanced, healthy and yet maintainable and reasonable diet plan. These days I eat fruit and drink smoothies in the morning but oatmeals are OK, too, I eat soups, salads, pasta or sushi for lunch and hummus, avocados, veggies and some wholegrain bread for dinner. I still eat super healthy and I am quite conscious about my choices - compared to others living on standard diets - but my whole life is no longer around food. I'm aiming at keeping things this way.