And what did your parents say?

It would be difficult if I went vegetarian. My parents always eats meat, and my mom cooks and whatever she cooks we eat. No deciding.

I was severely anemic before I became vegetarian so my dad got really mad and was all You need meat!! You're so yellow!! LOOK AT YOU!! (but believe it or not, becoming a vegetarian helped me! )

I don't renember what my mom said..

but my dad was worried I wouldn't have enough food to eat and stuff so both my parents would cook a separate dish for me in a special pot everyday , lol.

I became a vegetarian due to 2 reasons:
1) bad experience at in n out
2) meeting this vegetarian at a volunteer thing i did, and he told me about his reasons for being a vegetarian which inspired me. I went and did my own research about animal cruelty and stuff which further fueled me to change my diet to strict vegetarianism (altho I did still consume eggs & milk products. i'm giving up eggs now tho~)

If you want to become a vegetarian for losing weight purposes, it's not actually that easy unless you are very conscious on what you eat. I admit when I first became a vegetarian, i GAINED weight because all i ate were things that had lots of carbs (pasta, bread..) ..and the food my parents made me had SOO much sodium in it cause they would literally douse my veggies in soysauce and then stir fry it.

i guess i had it easy cause altho my parents didn't necessarily support it (its been 3 years and they're still trying to make me eat meat again..), they still were kind enough to make an extra vegetarian dish for me so i wouldn't starve to death

I disagreed with the treatment in the errrr... slaughterhouses.
[I don't like using the word slaughterhouse! I can't think of the word atm...]

My mom disliked it. She still does. Probably because I was in 6th grade [I'm in 9th gr now] at the time, and I was still growing and stuff.
I know she's only worried...

My dad thought it was a joke. He laughed at me, and started say s*** like "psh, we'll see how long she lasts."
But whatever. -.-

I don't think that it'd be difficult to become a vegetarian. [You'll be surprised at how easy it is]
I was in the same situation.
My mom would occasionally cook for my sisters and I, and it was always stuff that contained meat.
I would refuse to eat, so then she'd have to cook like.. zucchini and broccoli or something else.
Or just cook for yourself, or pig out on some salad or bread.
But then again, my mom is pretty easy going.

Oh! Your parents might make an excuse of some sort like "you need to take vitamins since you don't eat meat", but you just need to eat your greens.

LOL!! yeah! thats what BOTH of my parents said when i first told them about considering being vegetarian. XD "YOU NEED YOUR PROTEIN. NO PROTEIN IS BAD FOR YOU." and im like "um.. you can get enough protein from soy milk, tofu, and vegetables.." because you dont need meat to get enough protein. meat is ONLY good for a lot of protein and taste but psshh.. >.>; its not THAT amazing once you find out where it comes from T.T

but yeah. i tried being vegetarian. then my dad one day made me fried rice at school. and he always puts little pieces of scrambled eggs.. and then one time, i was eating and (i dont pick or stare at my fried rice before eating, because i just EAT IT LOL) and as im chewing my food.. i noticed a different texture.. and it was a little chunk of chicken. and i was like WHAT?! then i look at my food and pick around and i see he threw in a few small pieces of chicken. and then i was soo angry and sad and lost my determination in becoming vegetarian because its soo hard when your parents always cook meat. and yeah. -.-" i lasted like.. almost a whole month too.. lately, i have just eaten less meat. when meat is optional, i wont eat it. if its the ONLY food i can eat (such as, if it is in fried rice) i will eat a little bit.

When I was 12 I swore to myself, and everyone else willing to listen, that I would become vegetarian at the age of 14 (Why 14? Because 13 was a bad number me ) So yeah, when I hit 14...epic fail on my part. On the first day I forgot that I went vegetarian and opened up a can of sausages and just started basically pigging out. I didn't realize until after I was done consuming the can that I ate meat...

Then I forced my cousin to do it with me...fail again, her mother forced us to start eating meat again because apparently we're "killing our body with the lack of good proteins in meat!"

Blargh, so I gave up trying to go vegetarian until last summer that is...5 months without meat! Woot woot~ This time I'm going vegan! It's been 4 days now...Temptations! >_<

Sigh, the very first days of becoming vegetarian (again and again...and again) were hard. I got laughed and scoffed at by my mother and cousins (No support whatsoever!) Tricked to eat meat because my mother put bits of meat in freaking EVERYthing. So I had to cook for myself or risk accidentally eating meat by my...caring mother.

The reason I actually became vegetarian was because I wanted to see if I could really give up eating meat and because I got inspired (more like competitive) by my (used-to-be) vegetarian older cousin.

Oh, and because of a bet I made with my uncle! Lose 20 pounds for 20 dollars in 6 months...became vegetarian in order to win the bet (Which I did~)

Yeah, those were my reasons. Now I just can't force myself to stop. It's like...Must. Keep. Doing. It. @__@

i tried...
for one week then i got too hungry > <

my mum didnt care
she said if i wanted to do it then fine
but it was like rice and vegetables...
and everyone would be eating meat and it looked/smelled so dahm good =[

Spiritual growth, karma, love of animals, extensive compassion, evolution.

My mum didn't care, she tried to go with me. I went Vegan she was good with it and still cooks me vegan meals. I also live in a very veg friendly area. The local temple have started a restaurant and I frequent that place everyday. Life is good talking about buddhism, karma, human brutality and vegetarianism.