GonzWernerITF Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 i been vegetarian since i born , never ate fish meat or bird, but now at 18 i decided going vegan cuz i want to be a healthy person and stop animal murders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcina Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Wow that's cool! I became vegetarian when I was 15, and didn't do it right and got sick.. Decided to go full vegan at 21. Haven't looked back since. I'm 23 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Vegetarian from about age 5, vegan at age 18, because I had been thinking more about animal cruelty and what it means to keep an animal in captivity. Since then I've found out more and more about farming practice and it makes me sick. Now 27. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryStella Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Went vegetarian in high school - just found meat ing - didn't do the vegan thing them because i loved eating cheese. Got sick in college because I didn't do the veg thing right at all. Didn't understand what my errors were at the time. Went vegan at 28? I think. I'm thirty two now and have been doing it for about 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAINRA Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Never was a vegetarian switched over night. Went vegan a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjs Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 I don't remember when I switched, I think it was during my second year of high school. Went lacto-ovo for about a week and realized it was stupid so I went vegan right away. Sure there were some slip-ups with accidentally eating non-vegan things in the beginning but I think that's expected. I'm 28 now. I did it solely because I didn't believe in the use of animals for our own purposes. I think the current industry is definitely extra horrible, but I have more of an abolitionist mindset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryStella Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 oops forget to give my why. - for health reasons initially. Now for all reasons including animals rights, environment, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawaiiDolphin Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Funny story for me:I went vegan when I was 15, one week after winning my second state-level BBQ rib eating competition. I WOKE UP! I was ingly fat, unhealthy, and realized I was a hypocrite for saying I love animals but still contributing to their suffering. I still have my "little miss piggy" crown and trophy to show people who go on about how they could "never give up meat or dairy", and explained that my "training" involved eating 3+lbs of meat a day. That was almost 6 years ago, and my waistline and blood pressure are still recovering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odidnetne Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I went veg in 10/04, and vegan 5/28/05 (My 4 year mark is less than a month away!), Veg at 19, Vegan at 20, it was primarily for health and environmental reasons, but I've come to encompass the other reasons also over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasha Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) I ate really bad when I was a child. Was really into sports and very active. But my parents fed me garbage. I looked up to my younger cousin she had a very slim healthy looking physique. She was a vegetarian. So at 15 I became a Vegetarian and wanted to see how long I go for. It was working at the beginning, But by 5 yrs later of eating more dairy and breads I ended feeling irrigable and crappy. My parents made me switch back. So by 20 I was eating meat again. Three years ago I switched to a raw vegan diet. With the inspiration of friend Brendan Brazier in 2005. He showed me the things he eat, his favorite foods/snacks (mostly Vega, and bananas) and then I took it from there. So in over amount of time of not eating any animals I found I have more compassion and respect for animals. And mentally less guilty feeling of not consuming any animals products. Edited May 1, 2009 by Tasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I went vegetarian when I was 14 for ethical reasons...ate a lot of processed carbs and cheese and got pretty big. Started eating healthier, lost some weight, eventually would up going vegan at 24 for a combination of health and ethical issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsorlando Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Been vegetarian since birth! When I was 18 I tried to go vegan, but knew nothing about nutrition, so it didn't last long. But 3 years ago I went to a viewing of a video, Peaceable kingdom, which a local animal rights organization put on. Then I went to another event where they showed the same video and that did it for me. I just asked myself how could I contribute anymore to the horrors of factory farms, and the other stuff that they showed. My answer of course was that i could not, so ever since i've been vegan. At first I did it all for the animals, but soon after I joined veganbodybuilding I started learning about all the health benefits too.I might also add, (sorry i know this is a bit longwinded), that I also had all the misconceptions about protein in a vegan diet, and lack of energy. But not once did I have less strength, or less energy, in fact I had tons more. I also lost weight! Go Vegan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegan Joe Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Almost 2 month over 3 years as a cold turkey vegan. I am now 55 1/2 years old. I was just going to go on a diet to get away from my doctor who wanted me to try some cholesterol pills and then retest my cholestreol after 30 days of pills. My doctor never gave me any advice about lifestrlye of diet change. So after deciding, I serached the internet and came accross veganism and vegan diets. Well after 30 days my cholesterol went from 246 to 167 in 31 days on the diet. In that month I studied and found out so much about veganism and the total positive effect it has on many things, and it became illogical(didn't make any sense) for me to go back.Here are my blood test results from a month ago. after I stopped working out or taking any powders or suppliments fo over a month or more.http://i43.tinypic.com/1jvle9.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2rw1duh.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/34i4i1i.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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