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I was talking to a neighbor about her up coming hysterectomy. She said she is getting it because her mother has cancer. She is afraid she might get cancer. She was telling me I MUST get a colonoscopy as she lit another cigarette.

Just a few nights ago at a party of a friend...
(I was offered a piece of quiche and politely refused, but my friend announced to everyone that I don't eat meat.)

Friend's friend: What!!? You don't eat meat!!!?? (greatly shocked)
Me: No
Friend's friend: How about chicken and fish?
Me: No
Friend's friend (getting aggressive now): So... what do you tell your children when you see a lion kill in a game reserve?
Me (getting confused): Well, those are carnivores - they eat meat!
Friend's friend: Well so are we! We were meant to eat meat!!!

I gave up!

Ok, guys...I'm off on my daily hunt!!!....Can you picture me running through the African bush....hunting down a juicy zebra, pulling it to the ground with my bare hands...and ripping the flesh off it's body with my teeth?!!!
After all, that's why canines are named that. Our teeth look sooooo like the teeth of carnivores...haven't you noticed! Just perfect for ripping through tough hides and crunching through raw bones!

I've probably had another half dozen of these conversations. It just cracks me up. Even when I ate SAD, I was still pretty sure that chicken and fish were made out of meat.

I think everybody should eat all the animals than can, providing that catch them in the wild on foot and kill them with their bare hands. I'll be over here stalking a potato.

-- Jason Dunn

For some odd reason, some just think of beef as meat. I've never seen chickens or fish taking root in my vegetable garden.

I just tell people that I don't eat anything that moves by its own volition. That narrows it down.

Becoming a vegetarian/vegan means being involved in a lot of dumb conversations.

I've thought of printing out cards titled: "Where I get my protein from" and sticking them in my wallet.

those conversations sure made me chuckle this morning - so funny!

Last weekend, I joined several members of my family at a local Chinese restaurant. One of them had not seen me in 2-3 months, and I had been wearing heavy winter clothes at that time so he had no idea how much weight I had lost since last summer (maybe 20 pounds of my total loss so far of 60 pounds). I walked into the restaurant and he looked stunned. They he asked (loudly) if I was dieing of cancer! (I am still 10 pounds from my first goal, so I had a good laugh and took it as a compliment.)

But then for the remainder of the meal I had to endure his nutritional "advice" about getting enough protein, and calcium, and "good fats". He heard absolutely nothing I said to him. He then regailed me with his problems with cholesterol and diabetes and his liver issues, and continued to ignore any suggestions that I tried to give him.

His meal was a huge plate of some sort of oily meat, and a scorpion bowl...mine was steamed veggies over rice. I gave up even trying to have ANY sort of conversation with him after he went outside in the middle of the meal to have a cigarette.

Wait till he sees me in a bathing suit this summer...

That was so funny!!! I love your responses, especially how you asked questions that turned around the proof to them rather than fight with the facts we know to be true, but they never listen to.

You put them on the defensive rather than yourself and this WOE. I salute you.

I especially loved the milk comment and will use it in the future.

Too funny Dis but so true!
I usually tell people I don't eat anything with a face! Would a head of lettuce have a face?? Dlee

LOL at, "stop talking to me"! Haha!

I went to the doctor on Wednesday, asked for a cholesterol test, which was fine I'm going for one after my hols then:

me: could I have my Vit D levels tested too, I've been a vegan for about 17 months but I do take Vit D tablets occasionally, I'd like to make sure the level is OK.

doctor: no need you'll be getting Vit D from your diet.

!!!??? The mind boggles, they definitely do not teach nutrition at medical school. This doctor is a young man.

Sue

"Your mom raises bison?"

I've had some new conversations to add.

I was speaking with a friend of mine, who thought my diet was cool, until I dropped below him in weight. I guess he doesn't like his turn at being the "fat friend". He's on a calorie restriction diet, where he logs all of his food.

Friend: You should try my diet, it's much better.
Me: Really?
Friend: Yeah, I had room last night and I ate three ice cream bars.
Me: Diary doesn't really appeal to me anymore.
Friend: It's good stuff!
Me: Oh I know, I used to like it. So how much have you lost this week?
Friend: Well...I've put on a couple of pounds, but I'm still down for the month.
Me: ...

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My wife made these comments in the same conversation.

"You're crazy."

"It's like a religion to you."

"You've joined a cult."

"I'd rather die than give up butter."

"I gave up smoking, you should give up broccoli."

Disolution....is that really what your wife said??

I'll assume you're asking specifically about the broccoli statement. Yes she did. A year and a half ago when I had my second heart attack, she promised to quit smoking, after the whole ordeal was over with. She never tried, so I called her on it a couple of months ago. She made a deal with me, that she would quit, if I would repaint the house. No problem.

We were having another food-based argument the other night and she proposed that since her smoking was offensive to me, that I should be required to give something up. That's when she said, "I gave up smoking, you should give up broccoli." My reply was that I would just replace broccoli with a different vegetable that she didn't like. So she went further in suggesting that I only prepare vegetables from her approved list, which consists of; green beans, peas, carrots and corn. I am of course ignoring her irrational demands.