I have had some real battles to get where I am now, with family disbelief!
"What do you mean by not eating carbs, you have to eat spuds!"
"You can't have hypos your T2!"
You get my meaning, you just have talk them into your decisions and the reasoning behind it!
My answer these days are I am allergic to carbs and sugars. That seems to get their attention and their understanding!
Allergic to carbs and sugar - that's brilliant.
Last week a colleague bought me a pancake/dropped scone from the tea trolley at work saying 'I bought you this because I thought it had less calories than a (regular) scone.' I just felt like saying 'IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CALORIES'. I took it, ate it and felt awful for the rest of the morning. Lately, I've found if I eat anything like that it seems to make me want to eat more carbs and then it all goes sadly wrong.
I'm very much still at the 'experimenting' stage. Yesterday I went out for lunch and asked for salad instead of chips. Normally I LOVE chips but I'm coming round to the realisation that chips might taste nice but they come at a price. I still really enjoyed my lunch and felt fine after yet the others were still feeling full HOURS later.
With so many diabetics under the unfortunate illusion that provided they take their tablets and watch their sugar intake a bit, they can pretty much eat anything, why should we expect non diabetics to know any better!
The percentage of diabetics in the UK that currently achieve good control of their sugars (hba1c of 47) is only about 20 per cent, which is a truly shockingly small proportion.
Yep. My partners Mother is a prime example. She is Type 2 but needs insulin and metformin. When I told her that the nurse had told me to watch out for grapes as one of the things that people missed and that to limit them to only six - she told me that was rubbish and grapes were fine. And don't get me started on the day we visited and there was a box of celebrations chocs beside her and she told us she had had chocolate gateau for lunch.
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