When did you switch to a vegan diet?

[vj]

I've been vegan for almost 5 months now. I started October 1st (unfortunately for me, the weekend before Thanksgiving here in Canada) and I've really enjoyed it so far (minus the first week when I was a cranky mess). I went cold-turkey, not vegetarian in between. How many people have done the same thing? After a few months, and the realisation that it wasn't exactly a temporary 'fad' in my life, I decided to start up a blog into my adventures in cooking and eating vegan at www.veganjulia.com (http://www.veganjulia.com) if anyone's interested in checking it out.

[MotherEarth07]

I've been vegan for 20 years ~ vegetarian for 35.

[Risker]

Coming up to 10 years now! :D

[Robinwomb]

Awesome Risker! It's now been four years for me!

[harpy]

21! I might start claiming that's my age, online at least.

[Stig]

It's really lovely to read people's responses to this. Ten years for me (only realised when I checked my profile join date on here), and 16 years veggie beforehand. Interesting to see that most became vegan after being veggie for a while first..

[Thales]

I stopped eating cows about 40 years ago. Over the course of a few years after that I stopped eating chickens, then fish, then eggs, then milk. I stopped eating cheese and using other animal products about 10 years ago.