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[serene]

The person who suggested I should leave the low-fat-vegan boards has apologized (a real apology, not some "sorry if you're so sensitive that you got your feelings hurt" thing) for equating fatness with being a bad example, etc. Yay!

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[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

It's kinda scary that it's perfectly reasonable to specify what kind of apology you received....

[glitterophelia.livejournal.com]

omg what ridiculousness. I was vegan for what, 2 years? and was more overweight then than I am now. Everyone expected me to be stick thin just because I was vegan or to lose all sorts of weight but i GAINED weight. I still felt okay, but vegan does not equal being thin, and being thin does not equal health.

I'm still overweight now, and I CONSTANTLY get harrassed by doctors about it. However, whenever they do all their blood tests and crap on me, I'm healthy I can be. And they are always surprised.

This subject just completely gets me so riled up. haha. I'm losing weight because of a side effect of one of one of the medications I'm on, which is fine, I don't mind either way, as long as I don't end up looking like a boy :p But I'll be damned if I'm going to torture and starve myself for it. I've done it in the past and it doesn't work. I've watched (and still do) my mother do it all my life, and it's no way to live. Just be healthy, enjoy life, and accept yourself, and other people should learn that lesson too instead of judging us purely by our size.