I love being vegan. I know I’ve said it before, but I do love it. I love that I am finally living in sync with my values. I love eating and feeling healthy.
Sometimes I don’t understand why veganism gets such a bad rap. I mean, I know there must be angry and uneducated vegans out there, but there are also plenty of angry and uneducated non-vegans out there too. When people say that I can’t possibly be healthy with a vegan diet, I explain that it’s highly possible to be unhealthy with a vegan diet, and it’s almost highly possible to be unhealthy with a non-vegan diet. How many people do you know that eat fast food for most of their meals? Seriously. To me, it’s about being educated and knowing what you need to consume in order to stay healthy.
Right now I am embarking on a mission to get 100% of each and every vitamin and mineral each day. I got all of the vitamins easily, the proteins pretty easily, and the major minerals. It’s the silly trace minerals that get me.
I’ll bet I spend more time worrying about my intake of vitamin k and molybdenum than any non-vegan I know.
The next time someone interrogates me on my “unhealthy” diet… I’ll just whip out my handy dandy daily dietary assessment.
