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Summary: Does That Break My Norm

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Does that break my Norm? I hadn’t realized how much I had gained until the day we had dress fitting for my Filipino friend’s 18th birthday also known as a debut. I was shocked myself that I had never realized when I started to put on weight. I didn’t know what to do. I knew I didn’t like my body and it was time for me to make a change but I didn’t know where to start. I should’ve have done some research about what I was eating and how it was being made instead I watched lots of youtube videos which didn’t really help me at all. Then one day, I was so bored and I had nothing to do; I had caught up with all of my shows and movies on Netflix and the only option I had was to watch documentaries. I started to watch Supersize Me but I lost interest after a while and decided to watch something else and the documentary that helped me make a better decision about the food I intake was Food, Inc. Watching the animals treated inhumanely in the documentary really opened my eyes and made me question myself if I really need to kill animals to keep myself alive. I don’t live to …show more content…

I was 17 at the moment and living with my parents didn’t make it any easier for me to change the way I eat. We had meat in every meal from breakfast to dinner and slowly I started to eat whatever my parents cooked but in a smaller portion. I was still in my journey for a better healthier lifestyle. Once again I was on Youtube but this time, I learned about Vegan lifestyle. I didn’t understand much about the vegan lifestyle at first. I thought they were Vegetarians who called themselves Vegan to sound cool. After researching I found out I was wrong; Vegetarians just don 't eat meat but Vegans don 't eat anything that comes from an animal, for example honey, dairy products, meat and so on. They weren’t just following this lifestyle for themselves but also for a better world. Did you know Animal Agriculture is the number cause of climate

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