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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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)
gear4 29
A vegan diet is unhealthy
Rainbow_Rhinos 23
I'm honestly surprised by the amount of positive/neutral posts regarding veganism and a plant-based diet. Usually there's just a bunch of "hurr durr protein" whenever veganism is mentioned. Congratulations on improving your lifestyle and health, I wish you the best OP. However it's a good idea to get a blood test done every 6-12 months just to make sure everything's good (B12 and iron specifically). The best representation of veganism is a happy, healthy vegan :)
writergirl1029 17
The mistake most meat eaters (myself included) make is eating too much and neglecting other nutrients.
bretzeller 13
Meat eaters don't typically have any deficiencies.
neurodognvr 1
What exactly would they know about being healthy?
Cerebral_Origami 5
Congratulations! Ignore them! Enjoy all that you can do being healthy!
middlenamefrank 8
All that's great, and as many others have said, if it works for you, let it roll! Just be sure you're balancing your proteins. It's difficult to be sure you get all the essential amino acids on a vegan diet. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read up on it!
Bekkah_Kathryn_ 15
Sounds like a bit of jealousy to me~
writergirl1029 17
They most likely just feel self conscious about their own diet choices and are trying to make themselves feel better. I eat meat, but I admire you for abstaining. Being vegan/vegetarian, or omnivorous, it doesn't matter. We all have to balance our nutrients, and if you've found a lifestyle that makes you feel happy and healthy then you've won a huge battle that most people will spend their lives fighting.
bretzeller 13
Vegan is a risky diet. You must carefully practice supplementation. Until the 1960's, every vegan community died out due to b12 deficiency, because it wasn't yet possible to acquire it from non-animal sources. Additionally, most vegans don't use the strictly engineered diet that is necessary, so they have seriously compromised immune systems, and often, anemia in many cases. Countries like India where people are traditionally vegetarian due to religious beliefs, have anemia rates higher than 50% for women. Veganism is much more dangerous still, due to the scientific efficiency required to survive. I had a professor in molecular biology, who stated that no one under the age of 25 should even try veganism, due to potential side effects during critical neuromuscular development.
blacklightening 11
eat what you want. it isn't unhealthy it just kind of lacks what makes being fat ok. meat.
Urpoppy 21
I guess they are just ignorant. Don't forget to bring them flowers to all of their open heart surgeries.