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When I was a teen I wasn't vegetarian but like I still do, I only eat a small portion of meat if any. I was into healthy eating. I didn't really care about no/low fat and counting carbs but basically not living off of candy, sodas, and meat. I did not eat juck food at all. My grandmother who lived across the street from me (I lived with one gma who raised me and one who lived across from me) was concerned and thought I was anorexic. I have never been skinny or boney. I have always been full and I have decent muscles in my arms, legs and stomach. I don't know what signs I was showing that I may be anorexic but I ate like a cow. She always had weight problems and was at least 250 lbs. I remember watching her put slabs of butter in her chilli before she ate it. UGH! For some reason if a teen wants to change their diet adults jump to the conclusion that you are being unhealthy. I don't know why...

Well for eating out I just eat sides or at Mc. I eat that fruit thing...
Anyway...Yeah it is hard.
I get weird looks and things,but it is worth it I want to do what I am doing so I am doing it.

As far as staying away from meat- so far it's not that difficult for me. I just keep thinking of the fact that i'm eating someones child or mother. I also keep in mind how cute my cat is and how i don't want to eat his species.
My friends so far are supportave of my choice, but as far as knowledge goes -they can be ignorant. I mean, one of my friends thought that being vegan meant only eating cabbage sweatdrop
Just do your best to inform them and never forget that you always have the right to debate intensly and disagree with your friends.

I'd go with just the water. Mickey D's fries their fries in pork fat... or something like that. They're not vegetarian, that much I know.

I've never encountered any situation like that, really. I only have one friend that I go out to eat with and she eats very little meat so there's never a problem.

For the record: the ingredients of McDonald's fries, taken from their website.
Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (beef, wheat and dairy sources), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to preserve natural color).
The fry them in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Still doen't mean they're vegetarian gonk

nobody supports me with my stupid vegetarianism....it gets really depressing...everyone makes fun of me and makes fake-a** jokes bout it... *sigh* it is hard when you're a teenager... especially when with hormones everything makes you tick!

I've always had, I don't know how to say it, like, little spurts of trouble. If my friends were cool with it, my parents were nuts, and then the other way, too. Plus the whole cafeteria food thing. It got so expensive that I've been packing my own lunch every day for four years now, and the two times since I started when I DID eat caf food reminded me why I pack. It's actually great because I can make stuff that's SO much better than any sort of caf food. Odwalla much? heart And I'm always picking up cool new lunch boxes. My favorite for a while was like a Chinese takeout box made of that foam-and-plastic lunchbox material. whee (Total benefit of packing is the fashion/political-statement lunchbox. Just remember not to use the disposable kind, 'cause that's really bad for the planet)