any vegetarians?

Who here is a vegetarian that can encourage me to go back to not eating meat. I jumped into being a vegetarian once and did it for a while but was heavily criticized for doing it. I want to go back to it but it's really hard for me. I want to do it for my new puppy knowing that all animals have a sweetness the way she does, and for my health because of how good it made me feel but culturally vegetarians are looked down on and it seemed like just about everyone I knew had something negative to say about it.