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<blockquote data-quote="Doczoc" data-source="post: 44678" data-attributes="member: 12900"><p>Think I've got my responses honed now. I tell people that I'm following a diet with lots of fibrous carbs, protein and good fats. If they ask me what that means, I just say </p><p></p><p>"Oh lots of green veg and salad." </p><p></p><p>That seems to satisfy most. Some people ask what I mean by good fats (as if there could be such a thing!? LOL) so I just mention that I use extra virgin olive oil, cold pressed flax seed oil and virgin coconut oil, (I tend to forget to mention that I eat animal fat too :wink: )</p><p></p><p>Most go away fairly happy if somewhat bemused by the fact that I'm eating fat, I think the use of the terms 'extra virgin', 'virgin' and 'cold pressed' help allow them to feel ok about it LOL. </p><p></p><p>I tend to find it less hassley to extoll the 'good' things that I'm eating, rather than the 'bad' that I'm leaving out, ie, simple, refined and starchy carbs. I don't mention not eating these carbs unless really pushed.</p><p></p><p>Funily enough, last night I was chatting online to an old friend who has been diagnosed 8 months ago, I had no idea. She was chuffed that now the Metformin was kicking it (she's on twice the dosage as me) that her waking BG was now down to 7.5. I was understandabley alarmed by this and began to tell her about Bernstein et al, and my personal success in losing 2 stone since the end of November, reversing my fatty liver within one month, finally getting normal blog pressure after years of being on the verge of being medicated for it, reversal of sleep apnea, improved energy etcs. She was very interested in finding out what it was I was doing to achieve this and I told her in more detail what I felt was working for me. Then it dawned on her and she said, </p><p></p><p>"That sounds a bit like Atkins"</p><p></p><p>And then completely shut up shop! Came out with all the usual anti Atkins stuff LOL She then proceeded to tell me that she was going on Lipotim today but that she had to stop the Metforrmin because Lipotrim puts your body in ketosis. I replied, "What, like Atkins?" She failed to see the irony. I didn't go into the difference between diabetic ketoacidosis and ketosis either, seemed no point. Ah well...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doczoc, post: 44678, member: 12900"] Think I've got my responses honed now. I tell people that I'm following a diet with lots of fibrous carbs, protein and good fats. If they ask me what that means, I just say "Oh lots of green veg and salad." That seems to satisfy most. Some people ask what I mean by good fats (as if there could be such a thing!? LOL) so I just mention that I use extra virgin olive oil, cold pressed flax seed oil and virgin coconut oil, (I tend to forget to mention that I eat animal fat too :wink: ) Most go away fairly happy if somewhat bemused by the fact that I'm eating fat, I think the use of the terms 'extra virgin', 'virgin' and 'cold pressed' help allow them to feel ok about it LOL. I tend to find it less hassley to extoll the 'good' things that I'm eating, rather than the 'bad' that I'm leaving out, ie, simple, refined and starchy carbs. I don't mention not eating these carbs unless really pushed. Funily enough, last night I was chatting online to an old friend who has been diagnosed 8 months ago, I had no idea. She was chuffed that now the Metformin was kicking it (she's on twice the dosage as me) that her waking BG was now down to 7.5. I was understandabley alarmed by this and began to tell her about Bernstein et al, and my personal success in losing 2 stone since the end of November, reversing my fatty liver within one month, finally getting normal blog pressure after years of being on the verge of being medicated for it, reversal of sleep apnea, improved energy etcs. She was very interested in finding out what it was I was doing to achieve this and I told her in more detail what I felt was working for me. Then it dawned on her and she said, "That sounds a bit like Atkins" And then completely shut up shop! Came out with all the usual anti Atkins stuff LOL She then proceeded to tell me that she was going on Lipotim today but that she had to stop the Metforrmin because Lipotrim puts your body in ketosis. I replied, "What, like Atkins?" She failed to see the irony. I didn't go into the difference between diabetic ketoacidosis and ketosis either, seemed no point. Ah well... [/QUOTE]
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