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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1518485" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">One of my own lines re non-diabetics commenting on my food choices, amongst friends and family who ask me "Are you allowed to eat this?" is, "I'm allowed to eat anything I want, I choose not to eat this so I don't die too early." It gets a good response, I find. Understanding, at least, as to what it's all about. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Another one is, to people who don't understand treating T2D (the insulin resistant kind) with food and activity - rather than medication - is: "You know how they say 'diet and exercise'? when they talk about preventing diabetes, heart disease, strokes and so on? That's what they mean - the actual food you eat, and how fit you are. That's what I am doing."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I know it's a lot for just not accepting a piece of cake! But with longterm relationships, in my experience in any case, if you have a longterm illness/dysfunction, and they do comment on what you are or are not eating - it's worth coming up with pithy or pertinent comments to make to them to gently get them to understand, and lay off of you, in the nicest possible way. It has worked with my nearest and dearest.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Now, what Brunneria says about mass boredom response to a zealot-like intensity - ha! yes. I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Too true.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1518485, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]One of my own lines re non-diabetics commenting on my food choices, amongst friends and family who ask me "Are you allowed to eat this?" is, "I'm allowed to eat anything I want, I choose not to eat this so I don't die too early." It gets a good response, I find. Understanding, at least, as to what it's all about. Another one is, to people who don't understand treating T2D (the insulin resistant kind) with food and activity - rather than medication - is: "You know how they say 'diet and exercise'? when they talk about preventing diabetes, heart disease, strokes and so on? That's what they mean - the actual food you eat, and how fit you are. That's what I am doing." I know it's a lot for just not accepting a piece of cake! But with longterm relationships, in my experience in any case, if you have a longterm illness/dysfunction, and they do comment on what you are or are not eating - it's worth coming up with pithy or pertinent comments to make to them to gently get them to understand, and lay off of you, in the nicest possible way. It has worked with my nearest and dearest. Now, what Brunneria says about mass boredom response to a zealot-like intensity - ha! yes. I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Too true.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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