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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lucylocket61" data-source="post: 1764773" data-attributes="member: 41885">However, and this is not aimed at you, many posters are advised, almost from their first post, to stop eating bread, before they even get chance to come to terms with this condition, recover from the shock of diagnosis, or have learned about self testing to find out if stopping bread completely is necessary in their case.To me, telling newbies they must stop all bread, pasta, potatoes, rice etc from the word go is also a hysterical and unhelpful response from seasoned posters. Its a HUGE thing to take on board. As we see from this thread, there are many who still struggle with having to discipline ourselves to cut out these staples.I am not surprised being told of having to ditch starches is something people find hard to accept and want to find ways round it or go into denial.And yes, I know this will be unpopular for me to say but I do think the 'All or Nothing' stance from several posters make more  new people go into denial and/or reject the rest of the excellent help on this site as they are frightened off.And yes, i know there will be poster who respond with the message that they would rather be told upfront, and thats all well and good, but they are still here and many new people post a few times and dont come back, so we will never know the proportion who get frightened off.IMHO.</blockquote>

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