I am in remission, and still successfully on low carb after 15 months. But I’ve been spending time with the diabetic wife of a friend - he died very suddenly and she is struggling to cope.
The main reasons she can’t live alone are all down to her uncontrolled diabetes - severely sight impaired, serious neuropathy, has already had a toe amputated and her feet are so bad that they don’t know if she can save them.
But she eats bread and cheap higher sugar jam for breakfast.
When it is my turn to visit, I provide low carb meals, ie the ones that I can eat but without foods she isn’t used to (she won’t even try chia and doesn’t eat eggs except in cakes, doesn’t eat fish, etc, etc.). She eats most of the meals I cook, but won’t adjust her diet the rest of the time.
It is so frustrating to watch a friend destroy what is left of their sight and mobility.
I am very tempted, to be very blunt about her diet=sight loss, etc. even though I know it won’t help. That would be to release my frustration not help her!
Any ideas?
The main reasons she can’t live alone are all down to her uncontrolled diabetes - severely sight impaired, serious neuropathy, has already had a toe amputated and her feet are so bad that they don’t know if she can save them.
But she eats bread and cheap higher sugar jam for breakfast.
When it is my turn to visit, I provide low carb meals, ie the ones that I can eat but without foods she isn’t used to (she won’t even try chia and doesn’t eat eggs except in cakes, doesn’t eat fish, etc, etc.). She eats most of the meals I cook, but won’t adjust her diet the rest of the time.
It is so frustrating to watch a friend destroy what is left of their sight and mobility.
I am very tempted, to be very blunt about her diet=sight loss, etc. even though I know it won’t help. That would be to release my frustration not help her!
Any ideas?