The willingness to make sober judgments of current symptoms is perpetually displaced into the future. Those who are successful are partners in reinforcing the tendency not to see failures as real failures. Self-restriction becomes its own virtue as absolute purity recedes. Successful vegetarian diets require more than simple dietary purity More attention to robust nutritional intake and other health factors. Stress and vegetarian diets.
Stress creates less margin for error for nutrition's contribution to physiological maintenance.
Special nutritional practices added by some individuals. Rationalizing dietary failures with circular thinking and untestable excuses Pat answers and mantras. Unfalsifiable excuses impervious to testability. You're too addicted. Other meaningless, unhelpful, or unfalsifiable excuses.