Since being diagnosed, lots of people have asked me what I'm doing to manage the diabetes. I tell them that I'm following a low carb diet, eating plenty of fibrous carbs in the form of green leaves, only using olive oil and butter to cook with, lots of chicken fish etc. They've all gone away away quite skeptical only to return a few days later, having spoken to a health care relative, friend or someone they know with diabetes, to tell me I'm doing it wrong and need lots of carbs. I then try to explain why I'm reducing carbs AGAIN and they seem compelled to defend the NHS position and start and arguement.
After a week of this, I apparently offended a colleague yesterday, whose girlfriend is a clinical pharmacist, when he pulled me to one side and said ,
"Apparently it's complex carbs that you need to be eating".
I wanted t scream, "Have you not been listening g to me all week! I know what complex carbs are ***"
I again, explained about this website and others' experiences and how my own morning figures had plummeted from 15.9 to 4.9 in a week, but he took the hump saying "I'll tell my girlfriend she's thick and useless cos she works for the NHS"
I don't want to fall out with anyone, as I'm not a stroppy person, but I need some strategies to fend this off. How can I say, "thank you, but no thank you" when advice is coming my way? I can't lie about what I'm doing it's not in my nature.
After a week of this, I apparently offended a colleague yesterday, whose girlfriend is a clinical pharmacist, when he pulled me to one side and said ,
"Apparently it's complex carbs that you need to be eating".
I wanted t scream, "Have you not been listening g to me all week! I know what complex carbs are ***"
I again, explained about this website and others' experiences and how my own morning figures had plummeted from 15.9 to 4.9 in a week, but he took the hump saying "I'll tell my girlfriend she's thick and useless cos she works for the NHS"
I don't want to fall out with anyone, as I'm not a stroppy person, but I need some strategies to fend this off. How can I say, "thank you, but no thank you" when advice is coming my way? I can't lie about what I'm doing it's not in my nature.