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<blockquote data-quote="Arab Horse" data-source="post: 911242" data-attributes="member: 136328"><p>[USER=196373]@andysuperblue[/USER] says "Thanks all for the info, yeah hopefully it will turn out for the best. One major issue I have is wife and daughter are still tucking into all the good /bad stuff that I need to cut back on...going to need strong will power in this house..lol"</p><p></p><p>I came to diabetes late in life and had been having my healthy (or so I thought) breakfast cereal for the last twenty odd years; a grapefruit followed by bran flakes with seed sprinkle, chopped up fresh fruit and half a pint of low fat milk and a large, strong black coffee. Apart from the coffee the rest had to go. I did occasionally at weekends have a boiled egg and a couple of slices of granary toast and butter but don't like the egg without my toast. I now have an omelette with mushroom, tomato, onion etc and I do now like it although it was a struggle to eat it at first.</p><p></p><p>I know how hard it is to see the rest of the family eating things you can't. My husband won't eat anything that I eat so I too have to watch him tuck into the things I used to be able to eat; his diet has always been appalling; bag of 5 donuts or large cookies from Sainsbury's every day (I used to pinch one quite often); two sports drinks laden with sugar, something I never touch; very little fruit although I have always loved fruit and ate quite a lot of it but most of that is now forbidden or restricted; far too much wine, I used to have a medium to large glass but now only occasionally have a small glass; loved potato wedges, chips, baked etc but now can't have those although I still cook them for my son and his family when they come here.</p><p></p><p>I try to be very good but do have the odd bad day. My husband now shops and cooks for himself , he likes cooking so did most of the cooking and refuses to change the high carb commercial sauces he likes for home made or low carb so I can't eat anything he cooks. If your wife cooks low carb meals you can still enjoy her cooking and just cut out the potatoes etc.</p><p></p><p>The pain is worth it to avoid the awful complications of diabetes.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arab Horse, post: 911242, member: 136328"] [USER=196373]@andysuperblue[/USER] says "Thanks all for the info, yeah hopefully it will turn out for the best. One major issue I have is wife and daughter are still tucking into all the good /bad stuff that I need to cut back on...going to need strong will power in this house..lol" I came to diabetes late in life and had been having my healthy (or so I thought) breakfast cereal for the last twenty odd years; a grapefruit followed by bran flakes with seed sprinkle, chopped up fresh fruit and half a pint of low fat milk and a large, strong black coffee. Apart from the coffee the rest had to go. I did occasionally at weekends have a boiled egg and a couple of slices of granary toast and butter but don't like the egg without my toast. I now have an omelette with mushroom, tomato, onion etc and I do now like it although it was a struggle to eat it at first. I know how hard it is to see the rest of the family eating things you can't. My husband won't eat anything that I eat so I too have to watch him tuck into the things I used to be able to eat; his diet has always been appalling; bag of 5 donuts or large cookies from Sainsbury's every day (I used to pinch one quite often); two sports drinks laden with sugar, something I never touch; very little fruit although I have always loved fruit and ate quite a lot of it but most of that is now forbidden or restricted; far too much wine, I used to have a medium to large glass but now only occasionally have a small glass; loved potato wedges, chips, baked etc but now can't have those although I still cook them for my son and his family when they come here. I try to be very good but do have the odd bad day. My husband now shops and cooks for himself , he likes cooking so did most of the cooking and refuses to change the high carb commercial sauces he likes for home made or low carb so I can't eat anything he cooks. If your wife cooks low carb meals you can still enjoy her cooking and just cut out the potatoes etc. The pain is worth it to avoid the awful complications of diabetes. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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