Impact on social life...

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Fleming on April 18, 2012 at 2:57am

Take a fruit salad! Just say you found a great fruit recipie you wanted to try like Kristina's mango salsa from rawfully organic.

Permalink Reply by glettkau on April 18, 2012 at 3:02am

yeah, that sounds like a good idea :) but then i would only eat what i brought which may be rude again..

Permalink Reply by Rachel Fleming on April 18, 2012 at 3:07am

If there are a lot of people then no one will notice.

If all else fails, just explain that you became a raw vegan and be very casual about it. Also, you are going to have to go through this stage eventually. You might as well just be open and honest about it, otherwise you are going to continue to be worried about going out in social situations.

Permalink Reply by dandelion on April 18, 2012 at 12:26pm

I can sympathise with your worry over what people will think.  But, you know, just relax.  I've found that saying very little works best.  What you do with your body is your business, not theirs.  Take the fruit platter - that sounds like a lovely idea.  But don't even explain what you choose to eat there.  If offered, just say 'no thanks, not right now" and they won't even notice that you don't ever have any.  Don't focus your attention on it and other people won't either.  Instead engage people in conversations about their lives and their cats.  People are much more interested in talking about themselves than you.

You might feel stronger to brooch the topic of diet/food some other time when you have some runs on the board with this diet.

Have fun at the party :)

Permalink Reply by glettkau on April 19, 2012 at 12:11am

true, cat stories are the best distraction ! 

Permalink Reply by Chris on April 18, 2012 at 2:28pm

Im sure there will be salad but will definitely contain some sort of dressing or ham or something.

If I tell them Im eating only raw they will think I went mad...

Any suggestions? How to survive this? ;)

Don't succumb to peer pressure. If "friends" impose social sanctions against you for abstaining from using meat, find some new friends.

Permalink Reply by glettkau on April 19, 2012 at 12:10am

it wouldn't be much about the meat, more about 'oh sure you're on a diet but you dont have to, you look ok, here's some.. quasedilla?' kinda thing. i dont think they would actually understand this as a lifestyle change. you see.. polish people are always negative ;)