How People Treat You Because Of Your Diet

[MysticTree]

people at work know I'm fasting in a general way. It's a small firm and we are all quite fond of each other. They might think I'm odd but they respect my oddness :)

[Rawzula]

I told my mother that I was raw vegan and she said I should eat chicken and fish because I'm not eating "properly."

[Supa]

For the most part I just do my thing and answer the occasional question of why my cup of juice is some bright color covered in flecks of other colors. But I do give tastings of my green juice, fruit juices, and ginger lemon water kefir to anyone brave enough to try them. I enjoy the seeing the diversity of reactions and from a junk food addicts aversion to green nutrition to someone with culinarily adventurous tastes that say "hey this is good stuff! how do you make it?". Most like the zingy fruit carrot fennel ginger juice only but some like green juice too. Some are germaphobes that cringe at the thought of probiotics in the water kefir and some already have brewed their own beer or wine and familiar with fermentation.

One of my office mates really likes the juice regime but does not have time or the special equipment to make it everyday so gives me money every week to fund the produce buys and recieve daily glasses of green juice, fruit juice, and water kefir. I would like to believe we are perceived as some of the healthiest people in our office. Everyone knows our secret of eating allot of fruit and veggies, getting lots of exercise, and thus we rarely get sick. You can't make other people change their lifestyle to get healthier, but you can offer them a taste of yours and lead by example. For most people, like me, it takes a health crisis to get serious about change. My role model for change was my wife and I would like to think we are both stronger now we reinforce each others good habits.

[January Noir]

Most of the people who know I'm a Raw Foodist are more intrigued if anything. I've never had any negative attacks or remarks (a few eye rolls here and there), but I wouldn't care what they thought anyway. I'll care when they start paying my bills and feeding me. LOL!