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My in-laws are just about the same way. Its not that they don't care, but they don't know much about diabetes and no one in their family (besides me and my wife's great-grandfather) has it. Honestly though, it's the diabetic's responsibility to take care of him/her self. When I eat way too much and run almost 300, I don't blame the all u can eat where I went for lunch, I blame myself for eating way too much and not counting my carbs correctly.
A previous post is right, you'll never change his mother. But if she cooks for 10 when you are only 2 people, nothing says you or he has to eat like you are 10 people!
The reality is with diabetes, the blood sugars will never be perfect. Since going on the pump, I haven't been any higher than 160, which is great for me. Except for the one lunch buffet where I obviously underestimated and was 270 a few hours later!
I don't know your BF's insulin regiment either, but it sounds like learning to count the carbs and bolus for what he's eating would help his control in this situation.
With today's treatment methodologies, a diabetic can truly eat just about anything they want. As long as we can account for what we are eating and balance it out with the correct bolus. In fact, with good basal control, we can even skip meals now with not many worries of lows!
If you look around, one of the published side effects of going to a bolus & basal regiment is weight gain. This is simply because we start to eat the less healthy foods just because we now can. And I can attest that its true!
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