My coworkers are making fun of my healthy eating habits

Yeah, I get the same thing at my work. haha. I'm definitely the "weird" one. I'm vegan and I eat extremely healthy like 80% of the time and people even think my stir-fry with tofu is weird, or meals with a large variety of veggies in it. Little do they know, I eat WAY weirder at home... like green smoothies with swiss chard, spinach, spirulina, flax, and fruit blended together. Dates, raw seeds, nutritional yeast, maca powder, hemp protein powder, etc. Now that's the kind of stuff I keep within my home so people don't make fun of me. I really shouldn't care, since everyone knows I eat healthy and have lost a large amount of weight.. but I still feel embarrassed when people talk about it as if I'm crazy.

Just keep doing your thing! You're better off with your healthy habits!

@Herbivore- Have you always been vegetarian or did you switch to a vegetarian lifestyle to get healthy?

...but I'm not too bent out of shape about it.
I've taken to eating whole raw tomatoes and green peppers for snacks. Because they're healthy, delicious, and I'm too lazy to cut them up in the morning.
So, what's so weird about that?
My co-worker eats dried orange peels, so she has no room to talk.

lool dried orange peels, thats pretty bizarre, its like the rubbish part of a fruit.

I'd have to say if I saw someone bite into a tomato/green pepper like its an apple I would probably be like lol wtf.

maybe take a knife, so you can cut up your tomato, or its there when you finally snap and need something to decapitate people with.

stay strong. :P

haha.. I eat peppers and tomatoes like they are apples. LOL too funny. lol

Vampire! (That reminds me of the Bunnicula books when I was a kid.)

I LOVED those books!!! I probably still have them at moms! I think it was a cartoon too.. and what was that vegetarian vampire duck cartoon?? oh gosh.. that cartoon was soo funny too! Count Duckula right?? LOLOL

LOVED Bunnicula!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha

People need to mind their own business. What you do is YOUR business and not theirs. I hate that. Honestly, knowing myself, I would say JUST THAT! It's MY BUSINESS what I eat, you pay attention to YOU. That should really get them to be quiet. People ARE jealous -it's only the unhealthy ppl who will find the way you eat as weird.

What I have always found as odd is when someone is healthy they are called a "health nut" - why does the word, "nut" have to be there for that. And when they workout, they are referred to as "workout freaks". And when they have a clean and in order home or office desk they are referred to as, "clean freak". Why are they, "freaks"? What's odd is when people do what they are suppose to do, they are called, "nuts or freaks". When people are lazy, sloppy, eat badly and don't work out, no one says anything. It seems the "the way you SHOULDN'T be", is now the norm with people today. Here is what i get a lot, I smile often (I don't know why, habit I guess) and sometimes when I talk I smile out loud, meaning I throw in a laugh with it (like when I say hi to people). People always have to comment on "why are you so happy?" or "What's so funny?". I say, nothing, I'm just happy. I mean aren't we suppose to be happy, do I need an excuse to be happy? It is just that I am HAPPY! But when I am sad, or not smiling, no one asks why I am not smiling.

We need to regroup on what is good and stop thinking of it as, "weird".

I get the peppers. I like them, too. But wouldn't the tomatoes be....squishy? Like, how do you bite into that without getting tomato all over your chin?

I buy cherry tomatoes - gorgeous and sweet - and one bite at a time ;-)

i love cherry tomatoes... I can eat the whole box in one afternoon

I used to get this all the time.

"What is that!?!?!?!"

"Pea soup for breakfast again"


"it looks like baby vomit/shyte"


I kept at it. Each day someone would ask me what was in it, and i would patiently explain over and over what was in it and exactly how to make it taste good.

Pineapple
Mango
Banana
And leafy greens
Blend

now half my office are making them.


Take that btchz. Drink my green gold.

It's not weird at all. It's them who have the problem, not you. Keep it up and just laugh at them, don't let them wind you up.
Not nice people :-(

Dont let it get to you at all. Who cares what others think. I know its easier said than done. But, just remember you are fueling your body with healthy foods. It doesn't matter how you eat them. Keep up the great work!!

People make fun of me too! I spend a lot of time preparing my food so I usually have a HUGE bag with all kinds of tupperware and baggies in it, haha. I eat small meals too, so I'm always running to the kitchen every 2-3 hrs and my boss always makes some snarky comment when I walk by his office. It's interesting that he's making fun of me though, since he's around 350 lbs. He saw me lose 25 lbs by doing this so you'd think he wouldn't make fun of me, but to each their own.

My coworkers chug I don't know how many protein shakes and vitamin packs and drink mixes that are supposed to boost your metabolism... but think its sooooooooooooooo strange that I put veggies in my morning smoothie, or that I eat left over chicken with my breakfast.

Uhhhhhhhhh... you ingest protein all day long, and so do I. I just prefer food.

When they complain of headaches all day, of feeling lethargic and getting sick all the time, I just shrug my shoulders. Eating healthy food is not weird!