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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
itslaelae 17
ignore them op! congrats on getting healthier and I hope you achieve your goal and adjust well to this new lifestyle
vegantreegirl 26
I'd like to tell you they'll get used to it, but... nope. You'll probably get rude comments forever.
quantumkumquat 1
Keep it up, OP! Ignore the clueless haters. You're saving your health, the animals, and the environment at the same time.
ALonelyStranger 12
Just ignore them, not like there words are going to affect your workout
my2centsworth 15
Please don't let your relatives discourage you from continuing on your path to good health.
chaosmagnet 9
You're getting the results you want, right? Don't let the judgement of someone who's not in the best situation get to you. If it's working and you're healthy, do it. Do you.
Rabite 28
"But where do you get your protein????"
eknock 9
Where do cows get their protein from? Since you like eating em. Plants of course.
DanielleinDC 34
To which I respond: "Food."
One_In_Three 24
"Where do you get your vitamins????"
eknock 9
People fear change. I've been asked to cease partaking honey cause it comes from animals ?. Honestly being able to wake up feeling energized daily is way more better than feeling like a truck ran over you due to consistent consumption of meat & meat products.
Wormgod 10
Well, it is. We're omnivores, so we need a certain amount of protein that meat gives us. They're not allowed to say that, though, cause they're morbidly obese and clearly need to eat less sugar and fat. A vegan diet gives you the proper amount of sugar and the correct fat content, if you carefully monitor your intake and supplement with iron as needed.
Rabite 28
Nope.
TheMathMajor 26
You really don't need that much protein, the amount of protein in beans, nuts, and veggies is more than enough. And there have been studies on iron too. Turns out that vegans and vegetarians do have lower stores of iron, but their bodies have adapted and they are able to live healthily this way. Just like with any diet, if you pay attention to what you're eating, you'll be fine.
Attacksloth 33
We need a complete protein profile - it doesn't matter where that comes from. Vegans can get that through legumes and brown rice, and a number of other combinations.
domolovesyoshi 33
Do you not know that certain plants contain protein right and if you balance your diet correctly you can get the right amount you need, also I've got the same iron content I had before I was vegan now months after I started so also not sure where you got that we'd have a lower count?
bretzeller 13
You can't get B12 without getting into synthetic supplementation. Veganism is impossible in nature, only synthetic chemicals keep you alive.
Rainbow_Rhinos 23
#78 vitamin B12 is a bacterium found in dirt. It used to linger on the plants that grew in the dirt, which is how humans got it. However, our levels of hygiene are so high that this can't happen anymore. Farmed animals are given B12 supplements nowadays - so why don't we just eat the supplement straight up?
jbivens1992 17
Honestly you just have to ignore them. You should be very proud of yourself for making the choice to get healthy. You have to do what's best for you not them!