Nope, not an extremist.....just that there are certain responses required when one is talking to
@Revoltingest.
I am aware of the many different levels, I have been most of them over the years
Tried Vegan, it is to extreme and to hard for me
I have been a Vegetarian, vegetables, fruit, grains only and I felt great but I loved Milk so I then went for Lacto-ovo-vegetarians and had issues, mainly in arthritic ionflamation. Sadly dairy can be a cause of arthritic inflammation so I took out the dairy and went to an Ovo Vegetarian. But I drifted to a Pollotarian and that is not bad I like Chicken, but I was not feeling right for some reason...lethargic and tired much of the time...and then milk returned and I was feeling awful....switched to a Pescatarian or Pescetarian, which was a bit silly since I am not a big fan fish, salmon is great, shell fish I like but that is about it. However if I lived in Norway it would be easy, loved all the fish in Norway.
Have of late been a Semi-vegetarian without milk, but still some dairy. While on vacation I decided to just go back to a Vegetarian since that is when I felt best and had less issues with arthritis and was thinner and healthier. When I was a switched to a vegetarian the first time I was seeing a cardiologist due to family history and he kicked me out of his office because I was just to damn healthy, his words not mine.
I was a 100% vegetarian until this morning when I decided I wanted some egg white with veggies.... so I am somewhere between a full on vegetarian and an Ovo-vegetarian and I plan on staying there...just as long as I keep out of good Chinese restaurants...then all bets are off for that meal, I plan on staying a vegetarian, it is an adjustment and takes some willpower... my will power and atrophied a bit over the years, but it is returning....however I am not militant about it...that is unless Revoltingest is part of the conversation...then militantism is required