Regarding willpower: If you maintain a vegan diet for a few months, it will probably stop requiring willpower since you will stop thinking of animal products as an option that you have available. This has been my experience and the experience of lots of other vegans, although it’s probably not universal.
Yeah, my experience previously has been that the willpower required mostly decreases over time—there was definitely a time a while ago when the thought of buying and eating eggs was kind of absurd to me. This was slightly counterbalanced by sometimes getting odd cravings for animal products, though. I think that if I put conscious effort into developing negative associations around animal products, though, I could probably end up in a situation where it took zero willpower. That would obviously take effort though.
Does it take willpower for you to be vegetarian? If not, then it probably won’t take willpower for you to be vegan either once you get used to it.
No, being vegetarian takes zero willpower for me, but I was raised vegetarian, so I have hardly eaten any meat in my entire life, so I have very little desire to eat it—and even an aversive reaction to a lot of meat. (Which I’m very grateful to my parents for!)
Yeah, my experience previously has been that the willpower required mostly decreases over time—there was definitely a time a while ago when the thought of buying and eating eggs was kind of absurd to me. This was slightly counterbalanced by sometimes getting odd cravings for animal products, though. I think that if I put conscious effort into developing negative associations around animal products, though, I could probably end up in a situation where it took zero willpower. That would obviously take effort though.
No, being vegetarian takes zero willpower for me, but I was raised vegetarian, so I have hardly eaten any meat in my entire life, so I have very little desire to eat it—and even an aversive reaction to a lot of meat. (Which I’m very grateful to my parents for!)