marjies transition to a kind diet

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Kind Lifer Marjie has been vegan for a month and recently shared how she has maintained her diet. Check it out:
 
"Since I'm fresh off my first month as a Vegan...with family...in a small town in the Midwest...I've learned a few things. First everyone has a lot of questions! I am continually surprised by how much all of the people I love and work with sincerely want to know. So I answer all of their questions as best I can. Usually it goes something like this. Yes I did it for health reasons. Well it just seemed like a good time. No it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. You'd be surprised how fast meat started to look distasteful to me. Yes I have considered animal rights and social justice issues and this just seems to make more sense to me. No I don't really crave anything as long as I keep really good food around. My answers have all sort of landed in the gentle and kind category and I never let them stray into the "you should" category no matter how messed up someone's health or eating is. Becoming vegan turned out to be not such a big deal but it's still a completely personal decision.

As for coping with friends and family I've eaten at a bunch of restaurants with a bunch of friends and family and usually end up with a green salad and a plain potato or beans. Not great but it works and I don't have to feel like a pariah.

As for family including my husband and children they can eat what they want. There's not much meat in the house because I don't feel like buying or cooking it but they've been known to go out when I have a class. And at family gatherings I take good food with me. I decided that the food-pushers' issues belong to them not me. A quiet reminder that I'm fine usually works. I may have some moral high ground here that helps. I've lost 135 pounds only 5 of them as a Vegan.

The really funny part is that everyone keeps digging into my food. My kids my husband my niece and even my friends keep stealing my chow. I was going to declare some items off-limits but then thought I should just make more."
 
Congratulations Marjie! Does anyone else have a story like this?