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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1718817" data-attributes="member: 150927">Yeah, for quite a while after diagnosis, I just couldn't bear the idea that I would be living in a world without eating tropical fruit. I have come to accept this more, but I do it with caveats. I eat a tiny bit when in season, as my way of continuing to live in my new, ah, culinary environment, ahem without wanting to kill myself. So, I will be eating a few grapes from my vine, and a peach, sliced to maximise the joy, off my tree. Ditto when the feijoas come out soon. And this is an annual thing.  (For me that is now.) I have a sliced kiwifruit once a year at Xmas with our trad pavlova with strawberries and kiwi fruit sliced on the top, when I have a couple of days (ahhhh in theory) off of LCHF at Xmas. And that is it. That way I don't feel too deprived. I portion control pineapple (from a can, I live in the subtropics, not the tropics!). Have a few wee rectangles with veg and meat quite often. Yum. Tiny tastes, for me, of fruit, is the only kind of "portion control" I practice.Fermented grapes is another thing though! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy    :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" />.How I deal with it psychologically is I remember how much I enjoyed fruit off trees as a child, and pre diagnosis, and how many I got to eat! (The same way I deal with chocolate eclairs. I remember, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy    :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" />.) I don't miss the generally tasteless imported unripe versions of that lovely fruit I could get at the supermarket. Or in cans.I want to keep living as long as I can now, so with my very stubborn insulin resistance, that means not taxing poor ol liver and pancreas with high glucose forming fruit. Sigh. </blockquote>

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