 I'll thank you all too sweet. Okay, so I decided to do this on a live stream so more people can hear what I'm about to say. And I've got a question in my inbox. So I thought like questions, I might as well, you know, just advertise it to more people so more people get this message. But I've got this question from someone who's experiencing some problems with adhering to the vegan diet specifically. Not too sure if they understand the vegan philosophy. I think they do, but it's more adhering to the diet. So the heart's in the right place, but they're having some problems adhering to the foods. So we'll read out the question here. Hi there, Joey, I need some advice. I've been for a year. Ah, okay, I think maybe she left out vegan. Okay, so let's just, I'll fill in the gaps for this person here. So hi there, Joey, I need some advice. I've been vegan for a year and passed on the conversation to many people which ultimately led to a few becoming vegan and many more conscious of what they're eating. However, I've just come back from a two week holiday and I've been struggling. Example, having the occasional slice of margarita pizza at work, buying chocolate sometimes, that has led me to buying cheese products in the supermarkets. Every day I tell myself to stop, but I'm actually really struggling. Have you got any advice for people like me who know all the debate points and know exactly what I'm doing is wrong so I can go back to being the beautiful vegan I once was? Now, this is interesting. We're gonna tackle this a few ways, but firstly, I'm not sure you can go back to being vegan. So veganism is a belief that you hold. It's an ethical principle. So you hold that principle, but it seems that your actions aren't consistent with the principle that you believe in. So one of two things can happen here. It can be the people you're surrounding yourself with. You don't have a vegan support network. Maybe you're not exposed to the online community and reinforcing this as much as you could be. Two, you are not fully aware of the consequences of those actions. And the reason I say fully is in principle, you might understand it by hearing people talk about it, but actually seeing it hits you on a different level. So first thing I would do for an individual like this is I know it's tough, but it seems like you really wanna be consistent with your beliefs and your actions. What I would do first is watch Dominion. You can find it online, just YouTube Dominion. D-O-M-I-N-I-O-N. I always have problems spelling that when I'm under the pressure, but Dominion, watch it. I've seen it about 10 times and it highlights the victims and their stories and it goes into depth in every area of the animal exploitation industry. So I would watch that through to the end to remind yourself at what the animals are going through. That would be my first thing. And that's what I recommend for new vegans, for people who are doing a vegan challenge. Number one thing, watch Dominion. If you're in the UK, watch Land of Hope and Glory on YouTube, but Dominion covers every aspect of animal exploitation fairly well and it's pretty, you can apply it across the board for most countries. I mean, it's Australia. It does cover some other countries at the end, but Australia sort of prides itself on animal welfare and if Australia are treating animals like that, then you can just only guess what the other countries are doing. So watch Dominion first. Then I would try to find alternatives for the foods that you're craving. Okay, pretty simple too. Now if you want to margarita pizza, maybe you could wait till you get home and get some vegan cheese and cook one up. Or you could use an app called Happy Cow. Happy Cow app and it will show you where the vegan restaurants are near you. I don't know where you live, but pretty well sure there's vegan options in most parts of most developed countries. Or you could head on to the internet, head on to Amazon or one of these order sites and you could order these vegan products from one of these sites. So you can get your chocolate and amazing chocolate. Veggo bars are amazing. They taste like Nutella in a bar. You can find amazing vegan alternatives and cheeses. If you have access to the internet, then you have access to vegan cheese, I would say. It might be a little bit of work to find where they are at the start, but I'm sure you can find these alternatives in the supermarket and after watching Dominion, I'm sure you'll have the motivation to do that. So I think for this situation, this person here feels bad about purchasing the products that they know contribute to animal exploitation and harm. So I think support goes a long way in these situations. It's not like someone who's conscious of the animal abuse they're causing and doesn't care. This person obviously does care a lot. So don't kick yourself too much over these. Like don't make a mistake and then throw everything out and start going full carnival like some people do. I'm not suggesting that's what you're doing. You're just making, there's a few products that you've just fell into eating consuming. Stay on track. You can get back on track very easily. If you fall off the wagon, you can get back on track. And myself, I have the constant motivation of the suffering of the animals and I couldn't dream of consuming animal products. I just, I wouldn't consciously do that. Sometimes I have nightmares. Sometimes I have nightmares that I've actually gone back and eaten animal products, but I wouldn't in this reality do that. There's just no reason to. And I'm so fundamentally disgusted with the industries that harm innocent animals. It'd be like purchasing child porn or doing some other form of exploitation to humans. I just wouldn't do that. Like I just wouldn't knowingly contribute to that type of suffering. But that's because I'm heavily exposed to what happens to animals every day and I actually use my voice to fight for them. So I think what I would do personally is watch Dominion remind yourself of why you went vegan and start to align your actions with those beliefs again and make a commitment to do that in your mind. Make a commitment. So I'm gonna commit to doing what it takes to finding alternatives to these products and it really is easy once you find your feet with all this. So this might be unusual to a lot of long-term vegans who just couldn't dream of doing that, but I mean, we all haven't been vegan for our whole lives, have we? At the start when I first went vegan, I didn't even know about honey and I was like eating products and I didn't check the label properly and see I was making some mistakes at the start as well. And I was checking some of my clothes and realizing, oh my God, like there's animal products in my clothes. And then I realized that my quilt had was a goose down quilt and there was feathers in there. And I'm like, oh my God, what am I, I'm chucking this in the bin. So I even found out that my shoes that I was wearing, my Nike shoes I bought them when I got out of prison had leather trim, okay? And I found that after being a year into animal rights activism, you know, and I was disgusted and I threw them away. There's probably better ways of, you know, getting rid of shoes when they have leather on them. But I was just so disgusted that I had these shoes and I didn't know they had leather on them. So, you know, don't kick yourself when you're a new vegan and you're making mistakes, but just don't throw the baby out with the bathwater sort of get to speak. Like don't just, you had a bit of chocolate, you had a bit of pizza and now I'm throwing it all out the window. And I just don't think kicking yourself over it is the best way. I think just acknowledge the mistake and change it. But if you know you're making a mistake and you don't change it, that's a problem too. That's a problem too. So in conclusion, I'd watch Dominion remind yourself of the horrific suffering animals endure on a day-to-day basis. And then ask yourself is a piece of margarita pizza or a bit of, you know, full dairy chocolate worth that when I could be a little bit proactive and find these alternatives on the internet in my area with Happy Cow and then make choices that reflect my belief system towards animals. So, I hope that helped out. I hope that helped anyone else going through that. I don't think we, I think we need to be supportive of new vegans and I think you need to be supportive of yourself as well. So your inner voice matters a lot and you have an inner dialogue with yourself. It's like an internal audience and it tells you when you're doing the right thing or when you're not, it's like a conscious sort of thing. And every time you do something that is against your ethical beliefs, you're chipping away at your own conscience. You're like, I'm not doing something that's consistent. So that's not gonna put you, it's not gonna put everything in alignment. That's not gonna put you in the best emotional state. You're not gonna feel good about yourself. And who wants to live like that? You wanna do things that support good emotional health and that are consistent with a good human being, I'm sure you are, because you obviously are a good human being to reach out to me, a full-blown animal rights activist to tell me that you've been consuming animal products. So you obviously care about this a lot and you are searching for advice and you probably don't have a support network around you which I do, I have a support network and I'm, so from my perspective, I couldn't imagine doing that but from your perspective, it probably looks a lot different. So I just wanna say that you have our full support and we hope you get back on track and if you wanted another level of support, you could even try doing a vegan challenge again. So you can go to the link in my bio in my Instagram there or in my YouTube channel in the description is a link to challenge 22 and you could just do a vegan challenge to refresh yourself, you've got a community on there, support network, they've got plant-based doctors and dieticians in there and you just get back into it, do it as a challenge and then obviously veganism's not a challenge, it's an ethical principle you adhere to for life. So after the vegan challenge, you feel refreshed, you feel emotionally more consistent and there's no conflict going on and then you can go on and they probably will even help you find these vegan alternatives in your area too. So boom, problem solved, you've watched a minion, you've realized, wow, this is really serious and now I'm going to align my actions with my morals once again. So I hope that helped you all, I'll speak to you again soon. If you've got some type of question that you want me to answer in a live stream like this, I'll try to get to them, I can't promise you but you might be lucky and I might find it and be able to answer it just as I have with this individual and yeah, keep those love hearts flowing for her and I believe in you and let's all be a supportive group of vegans so you can help people make more ethical choices. All right, I'll see you all in the next video, peace.