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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anniep" data-source="post: 196327" data-attributes="member: 27533">I don't hide it and will say why when refusing cakes etc. But I often get the comment - just one won't hurt, or a little of what you fancy and so on. And so often I am told 'well my freind/relative/neighbour eats these, so they are ok'.I find it easier now, as I have discovered that I am wheat intolerant and can now say I can't eat the wheat - which bizarely they accept without question..Those around me, know that I keep tight control by not often eating sweets, chocolate, high carby things. But I was at a function yesterday, when a friend offering sugary goodies around offered them to me and realised what she had done, and said 'oh I'm sorry you can't eat these can you?'A nearby aquaintance looked up and questioned it, so I just said 'i'm diabetic' her reply was 'OF COURSE YOU CAN' and 'I'm speaking as a dietician'. I tried to explain what they did to my bg levels and how it wasn't so easy to stop the spikes on metformin only, but she wouldn't listen and just insisted I could eat them. In an I'm a professional tone of voice.Of course I know I can eat them occasionally, and the world won't end, but I also know that if I eat them too often - as often as I am offered them. Then my hba1c will be 7.4 again and not 6.00 which I work hard to maintain. It is easier to 'train' people not to give them to me.I work hard and do have, at the  moment stable BG, cholesterol etc but what sort of message is it giving to hear that sort of thing said with such great authority from a profesional?</blockquote>

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