The hardest part is sticking to the vegan regimen. I went vegan from Jan 2006 to Sept 2006 and felt the fittest I'd ever been in years. However, living in NY where you're invited for dinner every other day to another Nep's house, it gets a lil tough. For most Neps, meat dishes are what you offer to guests to make the meal more enjoyable (even back home, meat and alcohol are what makes a "bhoj")..I was forced to eat dal-bhat with the curry aroma in the air (that just made me more pissed). And also, going out to Indian wasn't an option either. The damn Indian restaurants put milk products in everything (including veggies!!), so it really got annoying. Finally, like how I quit smoking for a year, hunger, rage and temptation got the better of me and here I am eating more meat than I ever did before! hahaha