'It's made from plants!': Confused Kevin misunderstands diet advice about vegan food

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 27, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

You've got to be cautious about trusting random people online. This person shared their experience with a well-intended "Kevin" and his cautionary tale about his dietary journey. 

In r/StoriesAboutKevin, u/LulamoonJelly writes that her BFF's brother took it upon himself to get in shape as a New Year's resolution, just like many people do each year. It's great to decide to improve your health, but it's much harder to know where to start. There's so much advice out there, where should you even start?

Instead of checking out well-researched websites or books, this Kevin decided to talk to an internet rando and do as they said. On a weight loss forum, someone misinformed Kevin, getting him started on an unintentionally high-cal diet. Poor Kevin — hopefully he learned a little something about dieting through this ordeal. 

Scroll down to read this story of the goofy Kevin. Then, try not to cringe while reading this story of a dad who tried to get his son to act like they were a happy family — only for it to backfire badly. 

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    Purple - 'This same online person ...convinced Kevin that this "cancel out" rule applied to diet soda as well'
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    Font - r/StoriesAbout Kevin Posted by u/LulamoonJelly 10 hours ago Kevin believes vegan desserts cancel out non- vegan desserts because "it's made from plants." L I discovered this subreddit recently. And I have a story about my best friend Chrissy's brother that fits perfectly.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - Kevin was an average weight last year. But he started talking about wanting to get in shape for his New Year's resolution and was announcing it regularly on his Twitter.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - Kevin started gaining significantly more weight since announcing his weight loss goal. Chrissy and her parents were concerned about Kevin since he was gaining at such a high rate and they worried that he had possibly developed a medical condition.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - It turns out, somebody Kevin was talking to on an online weight loss forum told Kevin that if he eats something unhealthy, he can eat a vegan version of the food, and it somehow cancels out all the sugar and calories from the non-vegan meal.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - Kevin was eating a serving of vegan mac and cheese, chili cheeseburgers, peanut butter cookies, or another unhealthy food, on top of almost each of his regular daily meals.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - This same online person (who I'm hoping was just a troll-Otherwise they're another equally Kevin person) convinced Kevin that this "cancel out" rule applied to diet soda as well.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - Kevin had been putting on significant amounts of weight and had constant stomachaches for months. Yet still fully believed that the vegan foods were canceling out the sugar and calories from his regular meals because "it's made from plants!"
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - It took Chrissy, her parents, and their uncle (who is a GP) to convince Kevin that eating twice the amount of daily meals, even if half were vegan, was not helping him lose weight.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Font - Kevin has stopped doubling his meals, and his weight has mostly gone back to normal. But, according to Chrissy, Kevin has been sneaking vegan doughnuts from a particular store while claiming that they are an exception to the rule about vegan foods still having sugar and calories.
    via u/LulamoonJelly
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    Rectangle - Frazzledragon - 3 hr. ago Somebody tell him that sugar is made from plants.
    via u/Frazzledragon
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    Font - StaceyPfan 2 hr. ago "Our mum told us when we were younger that you ate a sugar, you drink diet soda afterwards and it'll cancel out the sugar."
    via u/StaceyPfan
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    Organism - kyledwray 1 hr. ago Maybe someone told him to replace his unhealthy foods with vegan versions, and he Kevined it up?
    via u/kyledwray
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    Human body - Knever 4 hr. ago . I don't even have words for this one.
    via u/Knever
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    Gesture - Spicyboi313 3 hr. ago Come on Kevin, everyone knows you need diet sodies to cancel out the sugar!
    via u/Spicyboi313
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    Font - _AlreadyTaken__. 58 min. ago This is the logic I use as a joke. "These vegetables cancel out my dessert. Har har"
    via u/_AlreadyTaken_

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