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Don't you just love it .......

pavlosn

pavlosn

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..... when you are offered something you should not be eating because of the diabetes that you actually don't enjoy eating in the first place! You can turn it down and feel all virtuous without it costing you anything!

A good example with me is chocolate cake. Unlike almost everybody else I know, I do not like chocolate cake, which is strange as I do enjoy chocolate itself. Any good/unusual examples of you own of such easy wins?

Things get harder when having to decline "inappropriate" food that I actually enjoy?

I find that the trick is to convince myself that the food is not actually forbidden and that I can have it on rare occasions and that it is up to me to decide when these occasions should be. I can then turn the food down or not, feeling that it was my own choice to do so and not a choice forced onto me. Just a trick of the brain but it helps me feel a little less frustrated.


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Yes it is good to decide if and when you want to eat something. I don't know about others but it doesn't bother me one little bit when I see other people indulge in a slice of cake or dessert of their choice, if eating out I just opt for cheese 'n' crackers or I'm just as happy having a cup of coffee :)
 
I also do not mind/envy other people if they are able to enjoy the desert of their choice.

In fact, if I am with other people, especially people that are aware of my condition, making they right/healthy choice is easy. It is when we are alone and noone but ourselves and our meter will know if we have kept our discipline or not that things get harder.

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I cope quite well with people offering me cakes and biscuits but a box of Pringles:hungry::hungry:
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I often get offered sweets and chocolates whilst working sometimes I do eat it however tend to say no.
 
When I was a teenager, I convinced myself that the reason most foods existed was solely to make me fat, so I have always had a love/hate relationship with food. I have known what self-starvation is like. I have still to learn a normal attitude towards foods.

I would say though, in general, that being ''deprived" of pasta is much more difficult than being deprived of chocolate cake. At least, though, pasta is considered part of a food group, so maybe I'm not too off track.

Interesting thread.
 
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