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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Bogrbon 27
It's their lives that suck. Way to be healthy!
CalculatedRisk 19
You ought to ignore them an deep doing what you are.
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.
BudgieLord 5
I misread that as "eat your son". Whoops.
cootiequeen4444 11
come on now. they're vegan. so they can't do that.
Fmlreadermostly 20
Well said! Me too.
dukemisery 18
Joke's on them OP
kakabalo 18
Ignore them OP. You good!
InfiniteSunshine 32
Your relatives are being pretty hypocritical, they have no leg to stand on with criticizing you. Tell them you're healthier than ever, and unless they're your doctor, they don't get to comment or pass judgement on your habits or health.
Mauskau 36
My family are the same, my parents are morbidly obese and my siblings are obese, and they all judge me and sabotage my diet when I'm trying to eat better and go to the gym more. And then it's "you spend so much time at the gym why are you not stick thin yet?" as if I can lose a dress size in a week, if it was that easy then why aren't they doing it too >.>
Straya_chick 8
I'd say Fyl too #33 it's one thing to judge, but another entirely to sabotage! I'm sorry your family treats you so poorly even though you're just trying to be happy and healthy.
domolovesyoshi 33
How do they sabotage your diet? I'm sorry they're such pains.
billiejoeinabox 7
If they try to tell you this again, just say "At least I won't need to order an XXXXL coffin in 10 years".
SleepyPharma 21
Savage...
Baron_Kaz 15
It is unhealthy to be vegan. Humans are omnivorous. Meat and animal parts provide nutrients that can't be found in a vegan diet. Period!
chosha_fml 27
Being omnivores means we evolved to have a lot of flexibility in what we can eat. That's not the same as saying we HAVE to eat meat or other animal products to be healthy. I'm not even vegetarian, let alone vegan, but as far as I've seen, many vegans thrive.
SmDestroyer 8
Haha careful, you're going to rally the vegans against you. (Though, I agree that vegan diets are not adequate for us omnivores).
vegantreegirl 26
You're so right! That's why I'm wasting away after being veg for 16 years. I'm practically dying! (Sarcasm)
DanielleinDC 34
I've been vegan for well over 14 years, and I'm still alive. I could be healthier (there's just way too much vegan junk food out there, ha ha), but I'm working on it.
Goatfister 2
The only nutrient found in meat not *typically* found in a vegan diet is Vitamin B12. I personally supplement this, as do you, because modern factory-farmed cows are also supplemented with it.
Goatfister 2
Besides, humans aren't biological omnivores, and there's nothing that demonstrates that we are, we're slow and bipedal, we have flat, dull claws, flat, dull teeth, we have awful night vision, we have very long intestines, we chew our food thoroughly, our mouth opening is smaller than our head, need I go on?
Mightytall 35
Having to take supplements to be able to sustain such a diet, should be a pointer to you, that it may not be the best decision to go vegan. It's ok to eat animal products and meat, but in measure and with conscience. And to protect your health I recommend you stay away from soy products unless certified organic. No other plant on earth is produced using more pesticides and in larger monoculture. Not even corn.
chosha_fml 27
For some people, "with conscience" can't include any animal products, because of the way animals are treated or killed (taking calves from cows so we can have the milk or killing day old male chicks because we only need the egg layers). If taking a few supplements, or taking the time and effort to plan their vegan diet very carefully to get as many nutrients as possible, let's them eat in good conscience, then so be it. Many vegans do very well.
anonymuse_fml 31
#9, I hate to point it out to you (though not really), but there are many people with omnivorous diets that should be, or already are, taking supplements. Basing the nutritional value of a diet based on the need of a supplement isn't really a valid form of criticism.
domolovesyoshi 33
I've never had to take any supplements as a vegan I get all my nutrients vitamins from what I eat and drink so I'm not exactly sure what the **** you're talking about
Mightytall 35
Well, if y'all aren't going to listen to the conscious meat consumption part, at least listen to the soy part! I'm actually working on not buying meat products from the supermarket at all any more. I want to reduce it, to eat only what I kill myself or if I know the person who's doing the raising and slaughtering personally. Because I also do not want the animals to be raised in minimal space with huge amounts of antibiotics and then transported for several hours, only to be killed in a factory under high stress.
SmDestroyer 8
Well, maybe the rate at which you loss weight was unhealthy??? Maybe? If you lost weight at a healthy rate, then they just need to have their brains checked.