Cartoon by Bitstrips I often have difficulty in how to label myself, that is, how do I describe my "diet"? For a start I don't like to even call it a "diet" since my decision to go "plant-based" was nothing to do with losing weight, but the word diet" often refers to just that of course. I actually prefer to call it a "lifestyle" since the fact is so much changed that I in fact live a life that is very different than what it was before. Of course if you read any of my posts you are likely to come across the expression "whole-food plant-based". I'm not sure who first coined that expression, but it was probably someone like Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of "The China Study". It says it all - our diet (nutrition) should be nothing but whole-foods, that is, nothing processed; and plant-based, that is, no animal products. So stringing it all together you come up with "whole-food plant-based lifestyle"