Today, despite feeling healthier than ever, losing fat, gaining muscle and having perfect blood results, my morbidly obese relatives keep telling me that my new vegan diet is "unhealthy". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my morbidly obese mother gave me an angry lecture at dinner, saying without any trace of irony that my vegetarian diet is "unhealthy and utterly unacceptable". FML
Today, the unhealthiest person I know, weighing in at around 350 pounds told me she was now a vegan. I then told her the Cheese-Itz, as well as the leather boots she was wearing wasn't vegan. She said I was wrong. I'm a nutritionist. FML
Today, my friend went on a lengthy rant about how people are "healthy at any size" and I need to embrace fat pride, after I said I intend to lose weight to alleviate my digestive and breathing troubles. Apparently her activist forum knows more about my health than my own doctor. FML
Today, after months of exercise and diets and finally reaching my ideal weight, I told my morbidly obese cousin about my success, hoping to motivate him to do the same. He replied, "Why would it matter, you're still ugly." FML
Today, I actually overheard the sentence, “People who can’t go vegan for medical reasons should die gracefully rather than eat an animal.” FML
Today, despite being the fittest member of my family, with a good exercise routine and a decent diet, I'm the only one who was just diagnosed with diabetes. Meanwhile, the rest of my family are fat, lazy slobs who eat like shit, but are otherwise healthy as horses. FML
Today, my fat brother has nothing wrong with him. His blood pressure, cholesterol, and absolutely everything are perfectly normal, despite him being 10 stone overweight. I'm 12 stone and exercise regularly, yet I have 4 separate serious medical conditions, one of which might one day kill me. FML
Today, an old man started telling me about the high price of meat. I told him I wouldn't know, since I'm a vegetarian. His reply was, "Oh, most vegetarians are slimmer." FML
Today, I've been a vegan for a year. It's also the day that I met my dad's new best friend, who happens to be a retired butcher. They tried to pull an intervention on me for not "being sensible" by eating meat. FML
Today, despite begging my parents to get food other than diet and weight loss stuff, they refused. I'm bullied for being skinny on a daily basis. FML
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Top comments
kirasant 19
I'm about as far from vegan as is possible, and I'm 100% on your side. If it works for you, it works for you. End of discussion. Ignore them, eat your soy, and enjoy your health.
Bogrbon 27
It's their lives that suck. Way to be healthy!
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Comments (57)
crimsonwish 3
I had my in laws make constant comments about how I looked too skinny, among other anorexic comments every time I saw them. All that because I had a baby, and lost the weight quickly. Being a active duty Marine who ran 3-6 miles a day, and being a healthy eater does wonders, who knew... and I was so "unhealthy" at 5'5" 145lbs... People say whatever they can to make themselves feel better about themselves. Fit shaming is a very real thing.
LyricaSilvan 30
Why are you listening to them, though? If you know what you're doing is right for you and you feel good about it, **** what anyone else says.
Alpha741 5
They are just jealous
mdiv2000 12
Congratulations! Don't let them get to you, but remember that they love you.
poorkitten 15
unhealthy for their self esteem
ImGoth 15
You get to enjoy the benefits of a possibility longer life healthy blood pressure and a healthy cholesterol
Spify23 3
I'm no nutrionalist but the most important thing is eating a healthy balanced diet. I know vegans who are constantly trying to force their diet on others but have anaemia and other nutritional deficiencies and one of which is so underweight the doctors have diagnosed her anorexic but she never stops eating. I also know vegans who are fit and perfectly healthy.
Rabite 28
It seems that you are their doctor or you're just guessing your friend's bloodwork.
Dat_Class_Tho 26
#45, you don't need to be their doctor or guess at their blood work. Most anemics will just tell you. There's really no stigma around having the condition and it's prudent to warn the people in your life so they know what is going on if you pass out. 2 of my friends are very open about having the condition. Although neither of them got it from being vegan, it just runs in their family.
domolovesyoshi 33
Those vegans are not eating the right food, you're right they're not balancing their diet right
Rabite 28
"Hi, my name is John and I am anemic. Go vegan!"
writergirl1029 17
Anorexic is also a medical term for being severely underweight. Anorexia nervosa is the eating disorder where the sufferer constantly monitors what they eat and is terrified of being overweight, but being skinny is not a prerequisite for diagnosis.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Just keep their life insurance policies up to date and keep smiling.
shinikageWolf 15
"SO unhealthy I'll keep BOTH of my feet."
mememaster69 5
it's possibly faggy, but definitely not unhealthy. you go!