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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1643951" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Last Xmas Eve (or the one before. Honestly, with old age these things have started to blur together), I rather stupidly made myself a low carb mug cake with some carby mincemeat in the middle.</p><p></p><p>Delicious. I had been craving mince pies and in my gaumlessness, I thought this was an acceptable compromise.</p><p>Silly me.</p><p>Ended up with an interesting hyper (around 15mmol/l) and then a quite spectacular hypo (went lower that the Libre reads, and I guesstimate approx 1.6 from prick testing slightly after the fact). I then felt grotty until the day after Boxing Day. The joys of reactive hypoglycaemia.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, yeah. You can put the violins away.</p><p>I didn't mention it for sympathy. I mentioned it as an example of how for some of us, bad food choices can really wreck a holiday.</p><p></p><p>So, whatever your guns are, stick by them.</p><p>I certainly intend to, because I am NOT making the same mistake again, even if it risks ruffling a few feathers on hosts.</p><p>Mind you, having said that, if I politely look someone in the eyes and say 'no thank you, it would mess up my blood glucose and stop me enjoying the day.' I can't see anyone actually force feeding me the item.</p><p></p><p>Of course, there is another alternative, and one that I use regularly with the dogs.</p><p>It is amazing how often people think they are entitled to feed my dogs. Yes, they are cute. Yes, they are friendly, and waggy and instantly your bestest bud ever. But would you go up to strange children and shove treats in their faces? I think not!</p><p></p><p>One of my two is the doggy equivalent of Coeliac. Anything with gluten and we get horrendous repercussions for days, and he is very ill. So now, when friendly people advance on him clutching some vile processed bit of cereal laced biscuit I say</p><p></p><p>'Nooooo! PLEASE don't!!! He has a problem with gluten! If you give him that, we will have projectile diarrhoea for a week!'</p><p></p><p>They always go pale and retreat rapidly. I am not lying. Last time it took him 3 weeks to recover fully.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1643951, member: 41816"] Last Xmas Eve (or the one before. Honestly, with old age these things have started to blur together), I rather stupidly made myself a low carb mug cake with some carby mincemeat in the middle. Delicious. I had been craving mince pies and in my gaumlessness, I thought this was an acceptable compromise. Silly me. Ended up with an interesting hyper (around 15mmol/l) and then a quite spectacular hypo (went lower that the Libre reads, and I guesstimate approx 1.6 from prick testing slightly after the fact). I then felt grotty until the day after Boxing Day. The joys of reactive hypoglycaemia. Yeah, yeah. You can put the violins away. I didn't mention it for sympathy. I mentioned it as an example of how for some of us, bad food choices can really wreck a holiday. So, whatever your guns are, stick by them. I certainly intend to, because I am NOT making the same mistake again, even if it risks ruffling a few feathers on hosts. Mind you, having said that, if I politely look someone in the eyes and say 'no thank you, it would mess up my blood glucose and stop me enjoying the day.' I can't see anyone actually force feeding me the item. Of course, there is another alternative, and one that I use regularly with the dogs. It is amazing how often people think they are entitled to feed my dogs. Yes, they are cute. Yes, they are friendly, and waggy and instantly your bestest bud ever. But would you go up to strange children and shove treats in their faces? I think not! One of my two is the doggy equivalent of Coeliac. Anything with gluten and we get horrendous repercussions for days, and he is very ill. So now, when friendly people advance on him clutching some vile processed bit of cereal laced biscuit I say 'Nooooo! PLEASE don't!!! He has a problem with gluten! If you give him that, we will have projectile diarrhoea for a week!' They always go pale and retreat rapidly. I am not lying. Last time it took him 3 weeks to recover fully. [/QUOTE]
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