When I was 16 years old, I was frustrated with going back-and-forth with so many diets and wanted to be healthy and slim in a sustainable way by adopting a lifestyle rather than diet and I really liked how you were able to eat more volume of food on a plant-based diet and how it helps prevent future diseases so I went vegan and did that for the next 5 years, but then I stopped not because I didn’t feel amazing but because I was just sick of all the stupid questions people ask, always having to defend why I wanted to eat vegan, and I really just felt like a weirdo because most others in my life weren’t vegan and didn’t believe in that way of eating, I also just missed trying new foods from other cultures and things like that since I wasn’t exposed to much of that before I was 16 and so I stopped being vegan (now age 21) for the next 5 years and have recently switched back at the beginning of this year (now age 26) because I felt so much better when I was vegan and I’ve gained a lot of unhealthy habits over the past few years as well as a lot of weight after having my daughter a couple years ago and I don’t wanna live in fear of getting cancer or some other debilitating disease. I wanna be healthy and have the greatest quality of life that I can. I also am happy to be helping the planet and animal lives as well because I don’t wanna bring harm to anyone or this beautiful earth we’re blessed to be on.