Thank you. She tried lower carb but found it restrictive. I will mention what you wrote. Thanks again
It's not for everyone... I've made the choice to follow the diet I do (Carnivore: Talk about restrictive! Just meat, fish, poultry, eggs and certain dairy products. And that's it.), and I didn't feel I had options... Once I found out how badly I actually responded to plants of any kind, which explained a lifetime of issues, well.. Don't think I haven't shed a tear here and there for foods and drinks I've lost along the way. I'd kill for a salad! I adore good food, and within keto there was so much more I could pick and choose from than I do now. But the alternative was over all, just too painful. So I stick with it, even if it did/does cause me some grief. But that's the price I am willing to pay for feeling better than I did.
I also know my grandmother would
not have given up her daily pastries for anyone or anything, no matter how much she feared dying. Very high blood sugars ruined her aorta and cause her death. Many nights spent with chest pains came before the eventual end. And a friend's mother loved her chocolate more than life, as with high blood sugars she developed such severe neuropathy she just walked from her bed to her corner of the couch and wasn't able to do more than that. Chocolate (Cote d'Or) was her only comfort as her days seemed to stretch on forever, in pain. Until her heart ruptured, which I quietly think was a relief to her. It was a vicious circle with both of them, that which gave them joy or comfort was also the thing making them
need said comfort... And nothing anyone could've said would've changed a thing.
So yeah. A change in diet isn't for everyone, even if it seems the absolute logical thing to do. If she can't, she can't, for whatever reason. It doesn't have to be a lack of dicipline or spine thing, not at all. Feeling trapped in a diet can make one baulk against it, and she just might be experiencing legitimate grief over her diagnosis, going through stages like anger and such, which can mess up priorities and willingness to do certain things. And I do think she probably knows what the consequences may be. I just hope she'll find a way that works for her, together with her doc.
