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<blockquote data-quote="dragongirl" data-source="post: 121528" data-attributes="member: 21244"><p>I have survived learning how to manage at my relations' houses when staying there (I <em>hate</em> being different or looking like I'm making a fuss) but at a recent day's committee meeting that I couldn't avoid, I rang and asked about low carb food and was then told it would be easier for me to take my own lunch - which I did, although previously I had been told this was not possible. I would have accepted any or all of the usual low carb stuff we low carbers eat, but it was clearly going to be too much bother for them to give me it.</p><p></p><p>This week, I even took my snack and ate it surreptitiously in a woollen mill (where notices said it was expressly forbidden!) while drinking their tea and waiting for my car to be serviced. Had I been challenged I would have simply told them that nothing on offer was okay for me. But oh, sometimes I would like to turn the clock back and fit in! </p><p></p><p>You see, unless you're inulin dependent type 1, everyone knows too many people who are just eating normal food - the silent comment being "why can't you? you're making a fuss about nothing, you're pretending you have something serious", because most people don't think type 2 is anything to take notice of. I find this the hardest bit about taking control of my own body.</p><p></p><p>Right now, I'm debating if I could in future ever survive a plane journey as I once used to. Not sure if you can any longer take your own food on board!</p><p>DG</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragongirl, post: 121528, member: 21244"] I have survived learning how to manage at my relations' houses when staying there (I [i]hate[/i] being different or looking like I'm making a fuss) but at a recent day's committee meeting that I couldn't avoid, I rang and asked about low carb food and was then told it would be easier for me to take my own lunch - which I did, although previously I had been told this was not possible. I would have accepted any or all of the usual low carb stuff we low carbers eat, but it was clearly going to be too much bother for them to give me it. This week, I even took my snack and ate it surreptitiously in a woollen mill (where notices said it was expressly forbidden!) while drinking their tea and waiting for my car to be serviced. Had I been challenged I would have simply told them that nothing on offer was okay for me. But oh, sometimes I would like to turn the clock back and fit in! You see, unless you're inulin dependent type 1, everyone knows too many people who are just eating normal food - the silent comment being "why can't you? you're making a fuss about nothing, you're pretending you have something serious", because most people don't think type 2 is anything to take notice of. I find this the hardest bit about taking control of my own body. Right now, I'm debating if I could in future ever survive a plane journey as I once used to. Not sure if you can any longer take your own food on board! DG [/QUOTE]
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