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Did it just sort of happen or was it a conscious decision by you? It is no coincidence that eating rules are common in many religions, adhering to a special die

• mnm1 10y ago
  Oh, it was very conscious. I think the decision had been building up for some time, however, probably subconsciously. I first went back to eating fish for half a year (I was a pescatarian for five years before being a vegetarian) and when that seemed ok, I decided to eat any meat. This latter decision was even more deliberate as I had just moved out and no longer lived with someone who cooked delicious vegetarian stuff every day. I try to limit sugar these days, at least keeping it to one dessert a day. That was, I think, the main motivating factor. I'm in no way low-carb, but cutting out as much sugar, especially from non-dessert foods, has definitely been a huge win. Morally, my views have not changed at all. In my moral framework, my own needs always must come first. So nothing has changed morally and therefore, it hasn't been an actual problem. I'm not saying it was totally easy and that I didn't think a lot about it both before and after, but it has been quite beneficial to both my mind set and waistline so accepting it has been easy.