Recently I switched to following a vegan lifestyle.  Prior to that I had made some major changes in my diet but I would have considered myself more of a flexitarian – pretty much vegetarian as long as it was convenient.  If I had not time to prep anything then it wasn’t vegetarian.  But I have some rare autoimmune disorders and I cannot sit by and rely just on modern medicine when there is so little known about my diseases.  I won’t say a vegan lifestyle has “cured” me – because there is not cure.  But I am feeling much more functional and able to get through my days and the…