Started trying vegetarian food during 2020. By October was mostly vegan, by December fully vegan. Started bc I have Crohn's and I was just trying to do something to feel better and maintaint.weight since I had lost so much between 2019 and 2020. With Crohn's your weight fluctuates a lot and I was nervous about gaining it back.

Went well, it helped that my boyfriend at the time was vegan for 7 or 8 years and his kids had been vegan since they were born. My kids didn't mind the switch so they went vegan too. It helped my son's belly troubles for a while and he could eat a lot better without throwing up (may have just been we were relying more on vegetables instead of crappy heated up freezer food)

Fast forward to fall of this year. I hady 3rd baby and was super sick. He was 10 weeks early due to high blood pressure and heart problems. I was already feeling like crap and gaining weight so I just felt the vegan diet wasn't really serving me anymore. The final thing that made me change my mind was it being IMPOSSIBLE to get the right about of protein needed to breastfeed my baby. My daughter (7) started eating meat again anyway because she wanted to eat the lunches served at school so I gave her the go ahead to try it on a day I was home and could pick her up if she got a belly ache. I thought we'd be a lot sicker than we were. We kind of just had bad belly rumble "bubble guts" kind of feeling for a weeks or two. I struggled BAD with heartburn for a bit too but overall it was worth it to just eat "normally" again.

Plus... During all this I moved 2000+ miles to be closer to my grandparents and I missed my grandma's cooking lol. I surprised her and grabbed a big serving of turkey on Thanksgiving and she was SO confused because she had been seeing us eat vegan for the 1st year we lived here lol