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Lifestyle alterations are the hardest ones to make and one of the toughest lifestyle alterations that anyone can make voluntarily is to become a vegetarian. Frequently individuals find it easier to become part of a support group when attempting lifestyle changes; think of Alcoholics Anonymous, Weight Watchers or giving up smoking. Joining a support group can help the novice vegetarian too.

The advantages of being a member of such a support group are manifold, but some of them are encouragement, advice and friendship. You may not require the friendship, yet you might like to socialize with other vegetarians so that you can see how they cope with eating out and basically just fitting into a society designed by and for meat-eaters.

However, whether you intend giving up your old friends or not, you might find yourself gravitating away from them after a time quite naturally. Remember the old expression: ‘Birds of a feather flock together’? This is quite normal.

You will have concerns substituting something else for meat; you will be worried that your diet is lacking in some nutrient; you will start asking yourself which restaurants serve truly vegetarian food and lots more.

Your newly discovered support group friends will be a immense source of encouragement and advice in this sphere. You might not like the concept of a ‘vegetarian support group’, but you could just as easily join a vegetarian dining club or vegetarian cookery class, the effect will work out the same – you will learn and you will make new friends.

If you have difficulty locating such a group by the normal methods of your local Yellow Pages and an Internet search, try going to the local community centre, where there may be yoga classes – a few of the attendees will be vegetarians that you can ask. Or go to you local health food shop and ask there Likewise you could ask at a martial arts club or a Hindu Indian restaurant. If all else fails, you could begin your own club.

If you organize your own club, find a sympathetic bar or restaurant that will prepare your meal suggestions for that night at a reasonable price. After a time, I am sure you could build up a lovely little club of twenty people and the landlord might let you have your own room to dine in once a month like the Masons.

If you think that this is too much in the early days, you could simply set up a blog. A blog is an interactive website, where you and others can post relevant knowledge. If you keep the name of the blog relevant to your town and vegetarianism, you should find that other people looking as you once did will find you, whereas you found no one. Once you have built up a circle of local, on line vegetarian sympathizers, you could suggest meeting once a month in the flesh and take the dining idea from there. An advert in the local paper would help too.

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