Thanks, joanna_cooper for sharing your views. I do hope I can succeed in completely turning vegan like you have. For the moment, my diet has been completely vegan for the past two months and looking at you, I take pride in your achievements and inspire to transform myself and be like you.
motheronmission, I would suggest as a start, eat vegan as one meal of the day (preferably dinner) for a week. Have fruits and salads only for this particular meal. Now with only fruits and salads, I'm sure you will get hunger pangs in the night (if you eat vegan for dinner), for which I suggest you break your dinner into two small and light meals, probably salads first followed by fruits (Papaya definitely as it helps in cutting fat) after a couple of hours. If you are really hell bent and dedicated to losing weight, I suggest you also make it a habit to sleep early, that way you can avoid any urge or cravings for a midnight snack. Slowly and steadily (say after a week), start having vegan for your other meals as well and as rightly said by joanna_cooper, the vegan style shall imbibe within you. Give it a try and let me know if I can help out in any other way. Keep updating me on your status, it always helps to share.
Two months ago, I gathered all my courage to walk up to the weighing scale and stand up on it. The scale flashed 150 pounds. I was shocked and immediately swore to myself (for the third time in two months) that I would do all that it takes to get that number to at least 140. I resumed my regular workouts and went on a vegan diet as instructed by my nutritionist. Unfortunately, I could not regularize gymming due to my hectic work schedule. Nevertheless, I continued with my diet and to my surprise, I checked my weight yesterday and I had lost ten pounds. I am really excited that after eating only vegan food (no meat and dairy products) for two months, I managed to shed 10 pounds and that too without any workouts. I urge all the busy working women out there to convert to Vegan Food to make up for your hectic work schedule and absence of gymming.