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<blockquote data-quote="suzie_girl" data-source="post: 337320" data-attributes="member: 38927"><p><strong>Re: I can`t believe the way some people abuse themselves !!!</strong></p><p></p><p>I agree the ad ice on the NHS may be to blame. That's about what I was told. My lovely bloke's granny is type 2, she's getting a little doddery now bless her. But they way she eats is RADICALLY different to me and shocks me. She was told to base her diet in carbs so she eats white toast for breakfast every day for example. I can't touch the stuff! She was never given a measuring meter until a recent short bout with one. She said she had pizza and measured and didn't underestand why it was through the roof! How do you say, because they gave you terrible advice and many of the things you do are wrong? So I tried to politely explain a bit but there's only so much you can do, and in all honesty she's got other issues and is in her late 80's so I really think, how to out this, I don't think there will be time for ill effects to really develop. (sadly but realistically as she's ace but no spring chicken). </p><p></p><p>I agree engage in conversation and talk about yourself, what you found works for you, how 'gosh I can't eat white bread'. But I have a type two friend who is registered blind and a type one who has lost a bunch of toes, and they drink heavily and monkey about. So with them I'm at the point I don't engage because clearly we have different thoughts in this. I think I don't want to wind up disabled for a doughnut, they think stuff it I'm going to die young eating doughnuts. And I love them both but I think that's stupid and I don't need to hear that so evade the subject and their food when I camp with them!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="suzie_girl, post: 337320, member: 38927"] [b]Re: I can`t believe the way some people abuse themselves !!![/b] I agree the ad ice on the NHS may be to blame. That's about what I was told. My lovely bloke's granny is type 2, she's getting a little doddery now bless her. But they way she eats is RADICALLY different to me and shocks me. She was told to base her diet in carbs so she eats white toast for breakfast every day for example. I can't touch the stuff! She was never given a measuring meter until a recent short bout with one. She said she had pizza and measured and didn't underestand why it was through the roof! How do you say, because they gave you terrible advice and many of the things you do are wrong? So I tried to politely explain a bit but there's only so much you can do, and in all honesty she's got other issues and is in her late 80's so I really think, how to out this, I don't think there will be time for ill effects to really develop. (sadly but realistically as she's ace but no spring chicken). I agree engage in conversation and talk about yourself, what you found works for you, how 'gosh I can't eat white bread'. But I have a type two friend who is registered blind and a type one who has lost a bunch of toes, and they drink heavily and monkey about. So with them I'm at the point I don't engage because clearly we have different thoughts in this. I think I don't want to wind up disabled for a doughnut, they think stuff it I'm going to die young eating doughnuts. And I love them both but I think that's stupid and I don't need to hear that so evade the subject and their food when I camp with them! [/QUOTE]
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