Don't tell people what you eat OP.
Honestly, nobody cares!
Eat what you like!
Thing is, you often do have to tell people. Food is a social activity and meals out, works do’s, lunch at peoples houses, you have to say you’re veggie/vegan/gluten free etc. Or you’ll go round and be offered pepperoni pizza.
If you say you’re part time, reducing, whatever, chances are you’ll still be offered the pepperoni pizza as you do eat meat....
When i first started going “part time”
Veggie i only ate high welfare meat and eggs. Which meant i had to know the source. Which in reality meant i only ate meat dishes i had prepared myself. Over the years i have become completely veggie as if I requested veggie options when eating socially, very much like on here the replies were a judgy “but you’re not vegetarian”. It meant on quite a few occasions i was ovveruled for restaurant choices and the meal would be at a steak place.
Like people who choose not to drink alcohol, people do care. You spend the night fending off “jokey” comments about you should have one glass to loosen up? Or why don’t you have a nice juicy steak like normal people.
If someone said to me they wanted to eat veggie because they only eat meat on fridays/eat high welfare meat or whatever reason, i don’t see an issue.
You wouldn’t tell an observant catholic that there’s no reason they can’t eat the sausage sarnie you’ve made them on friday because they eat it on tuesdays.
If people were more accepting of people’s choices and less judgy there’s be no need to go completely vegan, veggie, or teetotal. Just accept it if they say they want a vegan choice - it’s not unusual and not a big deal these days.