Effective ways to go vegan gradually?

Hello everyone I hope this finds you well! I have decided that after a life of living on animal products that I need to change my life style and go Vegan, I was just looking for some helpful tips to be successful. Hope everyone has the greatest day!
Welcome! Animal products are a concentrated source of several nutrients- notably protein, fat, iron (from red meat), calcium (from dairy), and B vitamins- but they're not the only sources of these. Protein is easy to come by, especially if you eat mostly whole foods.

You might need to supplement with Vitamin B-12 if your other foods, such as breakfast cereal, aren't fortified with it. One thing I've noticed is that B-12 tablets have a ridiculous amount of it: something like 90 times the RDA. I'm not sure if it's harmful to take a whole tablet daily... but I take a fragment of a tablet every other day or so.
 
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ou might need to supplement with Vitamin B-12 if your other foods, such as breakfast cereal, aren't fortified with it. One thing I've noticed is that B-12 tablets have a ridiculous amount of it: something like 90 times the RDA. I'm not sure if it's harmful to take a whole tablet daily... but I take a fragment of a tablet every other day or so.
The reason that B12 tablets have so much B-12 is because of how poorly our bodies absorb it. there are several article and videos that explain it better than I can - if I spot one I'll send you the link.

but in a nutshell, our bodies can only absorb about 1/4 or 1/3 of the RDA at one time. After that initial absorption the "gateway" for B12 absorption only allows for about 1%. I'm not good at math but just estimating - if you take something like 100 times the RDA once a day you can meet the RDA in one sitting.

The other thing is to get 33% or more of the RDA in 3 or 4 doses a day.

Ahhhh, here it is... perfect and just half a page.

 
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I would like to speak of what really works. If it does, it need not take long. Sure, I was vegetarian for years, before taking the steps to really be vegan. But, if I knew what I know now to do, I would have been vegan faster, earlier, and I really want that I would have been. I found delicious ways, that matters a lot for changing, but with finding those, including all the use of hummus that I made, it was still very important to find the healthy way, to go on with it, without wavering. And I found it a bit more than a couple of years of certainly being vegan, I just did not know if this was a healthy way for me. I wanted a healthy way, too. And I found it. I had been using hummus almost all along, before this, and what I found was using whole foods, avoiding modified things like white bread, or even wheat bread, but just having whole grain bread without added things that were not just natural, even preservatives, and still no animal products. It can be any vegetables (stalks, bulbs, tubers, leaves, flowers, and some of the fruits), fruits (the sweet ones are still called that rather than being called vegetables), grains nuts and seeds. Mushrooms are not plants, they are not real vegetables. You can eat them, but I don't.
 
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