I'm not vegan, but I applaud your decision and will power to go for it. I have been trying to veer "wholefood plant-based" for quite a while, though it can sometimes be a case of two steps forward and one back.

A couple of years ago I cut out all meat, dairy and eggs; my asthma symptoms and the stiffness and pain I'd begun to develop in hips and knees literally disappeared within a couple of months. I reintroduced dairy and eggs at a reduced level subsequently however.

Now my dairy intake is quite a lot lower than it once was, maybe once a week if that. Routinely I use non-dairy 'milk', 'butter' and 'cream' - and yoghurt too if I can get hold of the stuff I like. No eggs or cheese for me any more. I use ground flax seeds in baking instead of eggs, and I prefer scrambled tofu to scrambled eggs. I use Nutritional Yeast instead of parmesan on my pasta nowadays, it's very good stuff! No 'meat' as such either, though I do now eat fish about once a week as we frequently get given it via his extended family, some of whom are farmers and fishermen.

My long term goal is to go fully vegan. I feel like I'm gradually chipping away at it bit by bit and I'll get there in the end. While I understand the value of boycotting industries you don't support, I still have mixed feelings about free food/freeganism (eg: the fish we get given) and the potential waste that rejecting it could imply. So there are some complications, but vegan - or more specifically 'wholefood plant-based' - is where I see myself ultimately.