This is exactly the type of video that I wish I had seen when I first went vegan because it would have saved me
a lot of time and effort
and I've been vegan for three years now, and I have a lot of wisdom to bestow upon you.
So brace yourselves for that because the vegan tips are coming. Disclaimer here. I definitely don't know everything about veganism
I'm not a vegan expert
I am not
the Vegan Police
But in the span of more than three years I
have learned a lot of things about veganism and a lot of tricks and tips and life hacks
so I'm very excited to share all these with you guys and help make your life a lot easier.
First tip is download "Foursquare" on your phone.
Now there is another app called "Happy Cow" which is specifically for vegan and vegetarian
restaurants, but
here's the thing:
Every time that I've used Foursquare
and I'm with someone else that is using Happy Cow, Happy Cow has been a little bit of a letdown.
And like I don't want to start beef with Happy Cow okay?
I'm sure it's a great app but Foursquare's a little better and also Foursquare is free
You don't have to pay to download it,  it's a great app and I definitely recommend it especially for newbie vegans.
It's so useful to discover all the amazing vegan and vegetarian restaurants in your area and just
pig out
whenever you know you have money to do that. The next tip is
make sure to get a B12 supplement.
40 percent, I think 40 or 30 percent of the American population is
B12 deficient and obviously all those people are not vegan since only
one or two percent of the American population is vegetarian.
It seems like humans are not getting their B12 anymore from the environment.
We're not getting it from our vegetables because we wash them
which is a good thing. Another natural source of B12 is also natural spring water
which is another thing that we no longer have access to because our basic human rights like clean air clean water and clean
food are completely stripped of us and now we just have to pay for everything that is polluted and dirty
but I'm not gonna get into that rant right now. The B12 supplement that I use is this one. It's from Pure Vegan
and I bought it on iHerb. Oh boy. I need one now
mmm, so good
So good! The bottle lasts for about half a year
So you just really need two of these per year. The total cost is going to be like something like
20 something euros. If you do have an issue with supplements,
here's a thing. All the B12 that you are receiving through eating animal products was not actually from the animals but from the
supplements that were fed to the animals, so you're basically eating secondhand supplements
through an animal. It doesn't make any sense. My third tip now isn't a product, it's more of a philosophy.
So when you're newly vegan,
congratulations on that, by the way, you start developing certain feelings about humanity and about other people and
I can totally relate to that and I understand that. When I first went vegan I had tremendous
hate and anger towards humans for doing the
horrible things that they do to animals, and to each other, and to the planet. It's just like an
overwhelming amount of negative emotion towards our species, that, I need to be honest, are pretty justified
But here's the thing, you can't let those negative emotions take over you,
because then that's going to lead to you not being very
approachable not being a very likable person. Nobody wants to be yelled at and be called a hypocrite and
pretentious and an evil person
even though you know as a
collective humans are that
occasionally,
it's not a very effective way to
change people's minds and hearts. The biggest tip that I have about this is that it will pass.
It's a cluster of emotions that you just have to ride out.
It's going to get easier by time if you just let it get easier
and if you kind of try to not let all the negative stuff get to you.
Tip number four is about
clothes and how I first felt about it.
So when I realized that leather and animal-made materials kind of disgusted me
I just really wanted to get rid of all my leather stuff.
Thankfully I didn't because I personally don't have the money to replace it with other things
but you know if you do have the money to throw them away and buy
new vegan products I would recommend you to not do that.
You can just take all your leather stuff
and maybe store it somewhere until all that
disgust kind of fades away. If you want you can sell it, if you have the option to do that of course,
but do not throw that stuff away, I think that's the biggest
disrespect towards the animal that
lost its life to create that product to just be thrown in the trash.
In some cases there might be people that are going to
challenge you for wearing leather products.
And in a lot of cases those people are not even going to be vegan
I personally say just ignore the haters and do you.
They're just trying to call you out and try to make you look like a hypocrite
when at the same time they're not really doing anything themselves,
so those people aren't really worth you
dressing to please them. That's my opinion about this, I don't know.
And speaking about clothes, my fifth tip is
heading over to avag.co which is a platform that has a ton of
vegan makeup and clothes, lifestyle products, food.
So it's a huge search platform, basically
Anything that you want to buy, anything that you want to replace. If you have
leather shoes that are now worn out, and you want a new pair of shoes you can find them there.
If you want vegan clothes
you can find them there, food, just a ton of stuff and again this isn't sponsored by them.
But I love this platform, and it's so useful for new vegans so you can find that in the description box.
Another site that I think is incredibly useful for new vegans is iHerb,
which is where I got the B12 supplement
iHerb has a lot of vegan makeup and a lot of vegan supplements if you're interested in
slowly replacing your non cruelty-free brands with vegan ones
iHerb has a ton of options and the mascara that I'm wearing is from there,
it's from the brand Pacifica, and I love this mascara,
I highly recommend it and I have a link in the description box.
My tip number six is
You don't have to go and buy all the expensive
fancy video food that you see a lot of rich kids eating on YouTube, okay.
That food is great, and I've tried some of it, but you really don't have to live off of that
and that's not what a vegan diet is about and a vegan diet is actually
very affordable.
The best thing you can do is just eat
the way you'd like to and eat the way that you know is going to help you be vegan for the longest.
If you're trying
diets that are
restrictive then you might not have a great experience on the vegan diet
and you might end up switching back to an
omnivorous diet or vegetarian diet simply because you just restricted too much
and you cut out a lot of food groups that was
unnecessary for you to cut out.
When I first started out I did the whole high carb, low fat thing
although I never
really committed to it because I am Greek and I love my olive oil, damn it,
and I'm going to keep adding it to all my food until the day I die.
I could never cut out virgin olive oil,
virgin olive oil is life, okay
I personally eat a whole foods vegan diet and that means I eat a ton of
vegetables I eat potatoes, I eat rice.
Unfortunately, I recently became gluten intolerant which is something that could happen to you apparently.
So I'm not able to eat any grains and bread. God, it is hard.
Anyway
it's moving past my personal struggles to the
tip number
seven which is
be wary of
articles that you read online because both
vegan and anti vegan groups sometimes promote a lot of
"propaganda" and a lot of articles that are not very
scientifically backed
that make a lot of claims that are incorrect, you're going to very often see someone on Facebook sharing videos of how
the Vegan diet is actually bad for the planet or how plants have feelings, and that's just all
backed by
Pseudo science.
These are just articles written by people that are trying to create a very
controversial title and want to get more clicks, or, you know, scientists that are backed by the meat and dairy
industry releasing research that is false and
biased. So it's good to be wary of those articles and also be wary of
articles that are shared by some vegans the claim like
miraculous things done by the Vegan diet.
The Vegan diet is not going to help you grow a missing limb.
It's not going to help you change your eye color. It's not going to help you open your third eye,
okay, I think it's common sense that veganism does offer a tremendous amount of benefit, but it's not like
magic.
So just be woke and when you're reading articles shared on Facebook
take all of it with a grain of salt because a lot of it is just
bullshit. I'm sorry.
My final little bonus tip is check out Eluxe magazine
which is a vegan ethical fashion magazine. I'm friends with Chere that is the editor of Eluxe and I've also been
featured
in a little interview on the magazine where I talk about what I eat in a day and my favorite foods and a lot of
vegan yumminess so definitely check that out in the description box below.
These were my life hacks for new vegans. I hope you found them useful
I'm sure you're going to find them useful because I just I'm a very confident person.
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