New Year, New Resolutions?

It's 2012 and I am feeling better than ever. I've got a brand new job, and an awesome new trainer who has helped me get a new lease on life - I'm feeling amazing, guys!

At the beginning of every year after I fell off the vegan wagon, one of my main resolutions was to go vegan and stay vegan. I tried and tried, and I failed and failed. But failing never stopped me from picking myself back up and trying all over again. Kathy Freston, the vegan self-help author of the century, strongly recommends that people lean into the vegan lifestyle because diving-in head first is not a good idea. Freston says to lean in a little more each time your ready to, and to inform yourself at a pace suited for you.

And I agree. That's what I wanted this blog to be all about (well, maybe not all about). I created The Lazy Vegan to share helpful tips to my fellow vegans, vegetarians, and curious-itarians out there about how to live the lifestyle on a budget, share delicious recipes and maybe give you all some information that would enlighten you and encourage you to make healthier decisions for the rest of your lives.

When I went vegan some three or four years ago, I didn't know anyone else who was vegan, I didn't browse vegan blogs like Vegan YumYum, or subscribe to online vegan cooking classes like sporkonline.com. I wasn't very well-informed. I believe that's why I fell off the wagon so quickly - my lack of knowledge and vegan social connections were limited and non-existent.

Not anymore! Now, via Facebook and various vegan sites, I'm more connected and definitely more determined to make this lifestyle my own. I want to share it with you; I want to plead with you all once more to come with me on this journey into the new year with a new perspective on veganism, vegetarianism, and so on. I'll be your Yoda and you'll be my Young Skywalker.

Oh! I won't abandon you like before. I spent a few months forgetting about my lovely blog while I struggled with finding another job, paying bills, and eating horribly. No more. I'm done leaving stuff in the dust and unfinished (another one of my resolutions: finishing what I've started). And for that very reason, I'm posting three additional posts today. WooHoo!!!

So, give my advice a go and see what it does for you. I, like almost every vegan on the planet, can guarantee you won't be disaapointed.

Ciao!! Yours truly,