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)
Dean__Winchester 16
Don't take it seriously if they said it with a turkey leg in each hand.
MiaTheMartian 21
Ignore them, and be proud of yourself! Maybe they should compare blood test results with you, hopefully it'll be a wake up call for them to start taking better care of themselves.
R_L_Jack 11
Yeah when I told my Mom and one Sister way back in 1984 that I was going to become vegetarian, they both blurted out that I could not do it because I would die. Now another sister is more vegetarian than me. I have become a little more flexitarian and like another commenter prefer fresh meat.
claudiajean 24
Looked at the comments expecting to see a lot of vegan hating and 'bacon tho', but I've been pleasantly surprised. Vegan loveeeee
ribx 16
Hey guys, only just noticed this got accepted. It's great to see so many positive comments on here :) I'm in no way a health guru, but I make sure to get what I need while still allowing treats, and I'm definitely way better off than I was a year ago eating animal products. For anyone considering changing their diet for health or ethical reasons but don't think they can go full on vegan, I'd recommend cutting out dairy products for a week or two and see how you feel, after a week of no cheese I no longer had cravings and felt so much more energetic. (This could just be me lol) I saw a few comments further down worrying about iron, to put people's minds at rest I should mention that I've donated blood three times since going vegan, my iron levels were the same each time and well within the healthy range, so I'm obviously doing something right :) and I get my b12 from energy drinks (not the greatest, but I drank them before I went vegan and was glad to hear my favourite ones were still suitable)
iSleep 5
Well Im not fat, meaning I changed my diet some years ago, I pretty much always get perfect blood results... and yet im not healthy. People will always tell you something isnt healthy. Its quite important that your argument about health isnt 1- your vegan diet ( make it more specific - like reduction of high fat meat, or reduction or animal based sweets) 2- you are not fat ( Fat people can be healthier then you. )
millsjoshua949 12
So what? If you feel good then what does it matter what anyone else thinks?