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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spiral" data-source="post: 78796" data-attributes="member: 19371">I started a similar thread in another section of the forum, these were the kind of answers/discussion I'd hoped for... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> it is such a public condition, isn't it? :?   What you eat, when you eat, why you can't/shouldn't eat etc...Like Trinkwasser I tend to blether on to anyone about most things :roll:  so people I know, know...  This includes work and friends, and some members of my family, but not my mother.  My 12 year old son is becoming very knowledgable <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> I know it isn't anything to be ashamed of, but there is a culture of blame out there.  My mum (with whom I usually have good relationship except when it comes to talking about my weight) has spent the last 20+ years nagging me about my weight, telling me it is for my own good and that if I don't do something about it I will get diabetes, especially as I had gestational diabetes, and I will have to have my leg amputated like my grandmother....  She then offers me cake, and if I say no, she offers me different kind of cake (all home made)... it is sometimes easier just to accept...  So I have not told her... yet it isn't a secret.</blockquote>

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