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[pianomaps]

I'm a pretty new vegan and up until very recently I could not stop craving chicken and grilled cheese! But yesterday my roommates, who live almost solely on fried chicken, cheese, and pasta, were cooking dinner and the sight and smell of the meat completely disgusted me. It's kind of a relief to have gotten past that stage where my brain still

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[misledyouth00]

i still do sometimes but yeah, when i smell the REAL thing, i get kinda nausea too.
there are tons of good vegan replacements that help with the cravings too!

the weirdest is sometimes i have dreams where i'm eating some of those things. and even in the dream i feel guilty and horrible doing it and then for a split second when i first wake up and think the dream was real, i still feel horrible. kind of a vegan style nightmare, i guess?

[hobochan]

Me too! It seems my dreams always go for the worst offender - it's always meat as opposed to eggs or dairy. I keep dreaming about barbequed chicken and when I wake up I'm horrified, then wonder (in my state of sleepiness) if I really did eat it or not.

[misledyouth00]

really!
i honestly thought i was just a weirdo!

[orphe_]

meatmares... i hate those. *shivers*

[lovelychickadee]

It took a few tries to nail the veganism thing thanks to heavy reliance on & cravings for cheese, etc. Some days I still want nothing more than a cheese pizza, but I haven't touched the stuff in over 2 years now. And I don't feel tempted at all, when it's in the vicinity.

[misledyouth00]

ahahaha, http://veganbits.com/honey-im-a-vegan/ sez you can be a vegan and eat the occasional slice of cheese pizza still... rest assured!

[annomalley]

Great article, thanks for the link. Not something that will be popular with the purists, but I think it's a very well argued piece. I particularly like the statistics (people who think I'm not vegan because I ate a piece of meringue at one meal out of 1,095 last year can buzz off) and the last two paragraph about what purists think they're achieving exactly.

To answer the OP's question, I've never craved or knowingly eaten meat in 21 years of vegetarianism (but still find the smell of it cooking appetizing, go figure). I used to love cheese but found that in my early years of veganism it was eggs I missed most (I gave in to those cravings a couple years back when recovering from surgery). For me the hardest thing about veganism has always been saying no to free cake. Still is after 3 years.

No food I used to like viscerally disgusts me yet apart from meat (the sight/thought of, not the smell) and milk itself.

[laceyslostlove]

don't you think there's a difference in accidental ingestion versus lack of willpower though?

[iwillcomeagain]

Immediately.

[eneffigie]

I think chicken is one of the most disgusting smells. I'm not sure at what point it went from "not appealing" to "disgusting" but now I almost have to leave the room if someone is cooking/has recently cooked chicken or eggs. Bacon is almost as bad.

I don't remember it taking very long before meat became unappealing, but I do remember that it took longer with dairy and eggs. I don't really remember having any cravings for meat at all (except during a transitional/experimental phase before I went vegetarian, and was just trying it out a few days a week), it was very easy for me to give up meat once I decided to give it up entirely. However, most of the dairy/egg cravings hung around for awhile longer, maybe the first year? They became less frequent as time went on, though.

[dreatastespie]

I always ALWAYS crave pizza. Luckily my boyfriend makes me delicious vegan pizzas. But other than that I just imagine myself actually chewing things and get grossed out immediately.