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One won't hurt you......

Has anyone ever just told a lie just to get the point across? If you said you had coeliac disease and eating flour might put you in hospital for example. Would that get the idea across to them quicker?

At a barbecue I once said that I was more concerned about eating the bun than the burger and everyone laughed at the funny man. There just has to be a way.
 
What I want is this "diabetes " that everyone's dad grandad budgie aunt HAD the one where they never had a days problem with could eat anything they wanted except sugar never tested their blood or took tablets for
When asked how they died (cos none of them are still alive) it was nothing to do with diabetes they either had kidney failure heart failure or got a nasty infection in their foot and that was what killed them of course it was I now stop trying to convince people otherwise and just shrug my shoulders and say what a shame and continue testing and counting carbs
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Jan
 
Got my family trained - I'm using the Wild Diet principles

So I have a feast day once a week where I eat what I want (and coincide that with relatives etc., so it's less objectionable) Fesat means having a little bit of everything, including puddings.

We went to an all you can eat buffet place at the weekend, ate really well just by being careful what I chose and no one noticed.

I have a fast day too where I eat just enough to keep from starvation, and always drink plenty. Usually after a feast day.

Maybe that's a way of doing it? If you can help yourself you can choose the things that work better for you anyway

At Christmas I had plate of turkey and all the veg, some of the trimmings, missed the spuds and the yorkies and the stuffing out and none really noticed. (my mother is a fearsome nag!) Had pudding - that was all the berry fruit and cream hiding that I hadn't taken the meringue - works for me.
 
Jamesuk9 said:
If I had a £ for every time I've heard that I'd be rich by now....

At what stage do family and friends accept that you don't want it, aren't going to eat it, would rather stab yourself in the eye with a fork before eating their grubby cakes and pasties?

My Grandad who was my father figure and hero once said to me when I wouldn't eat my veg "you are what you eat son". Now I know what he meant and why he lived on produce he grew in his allotment.

Having brought myself close to the brink of full on type 2 with symptoms, I have absolutely no intention of making progression easy.... Not without a fight, not ever!

I have more energy, I'm sleeping better, I'm eating healthier and I have no intention of letting that slip for the rest of my life....

How do we get through to these people? Without resorting to "go F*** yourself" which is the stage I am reaching if they don't ease off with the encouragement to eat **** and constant criticism of the way I eat...
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Know it so well. People think that if I have more insulin, I can have the things they do. All that does is accumulate and push me into a huge hypo!
 
We have the "****" cupboard, which I avoid at all costs :D - Fortunately family respect me enough not to offer anymore through the darth vader death stare ;) = Sunk in eventually :)
 
I have no problem with having a cupboard at home full of goodies that the kids/grandkids have as treats, and, I have no problem with my partner eating exactly what she wants in front of me - reason being is I have a choice, I never tell myself I cant have something, I never tell people I cant eat certain things - I only state that I choose not to eat certain foods for health reasons - my mother in law constantly tells me I am mad for the things I choose not to eat( fruits are good for you, 5 a day, blah, blah, blah ) I now enjoy telling people the secret of my weight loss ( if they ask) is butter and pork scratchings, and how I have discovered how nice melted butter in coffee is - no one believes me anyway, and that saves trying to explain. I forgive people's ignorance, because I was as bad before becoming T2 myself.
 
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