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10-26-2006, 01:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Diego
Posts: 13
| | | Can you eat that?
I must get that question once a week, and to be honest it both makes me laugh and annoys the **** out of me. Most of the time I shrug and say stick around and lets see, it could be fun for everyone.
Does everyone else get some silly questions like that and how do you normally respond?
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10-26-2006, 01:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 770
| | | I get it alot. I stole this line from someone's sig... but I always say
"I can eat anything except plastic and brussel sprouts"
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T1 18 years
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10-26-2006, 02:41 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portsmouth UK
Posts: 1,608
| | | I get it sometimes, not a lot though... mostly people at work offering me sweets and jam filled sugar coated doughnuts... THAT annoys me.
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13/10/2006 - 7.2%  | 15/12/2006 - 6.0%  | 29/06/2007 - 7.1% | 02/11/2007 - 7.8% | 29/02/2008 - 6.5%  | 07/08/2008 - 6.8
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10-26-2006, 02:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somerset, Pa
Posts: 696
| | | I get that from my own family even to the point of trying to take food items away from me.
Yep, annoying as all well you get it
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10-26-2006, 03:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,500
| | | Well, it isn't a question, but so far my favorite was going hypo at the dentist's and having the techie offer me some table sugar! |
10-26-2006, 03:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: BC Canada
Posts: 80
| | | grace girl - haha, sometimes if I'm low at a restaurant and waiting for my order I'll sit and eat the sugar packets. Mmm sugar.
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Formerly on NPH;
as of December 26, 2006, using Levemir and Humalog |
10-26-2006, 03:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,299
| | Quote:
grace girl
Well, it isn't a question, but so far my favorite was going hypo at the dentist's and having the techie offer me some table sugar!
| So then they said to you," Just paw the carpet once for each sugar cube you want."
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10-26-2006, 04:52 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,948
| | | Yes I get it! For future reference, let them always be referred to as FOOD NAZIS.
I had a great one just a few weeks ago!
I love to bake, and my friend had just had a little girl, so, at Molly's welcome supper I baked a white chocolate and raspberry swirl cake. As I was placing it and a knife on the table, I was asked by a rather large (I'm talking 4 times my size) guy I know "should you be eating that?". I looked him up and down, explained that I was serving it, not gobbling, and as he cut himself a huge chunk said "and anyway... should YOU be eating that?!".
I wasn't popular with him for it, but i say whats good for the goose, is good for the gander..
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10-26-2006, 06:53 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Mateo County, CA
Posts: 52
| | | I just say "I can eat anything as long as I take the dose to match it." And that's pretty easy for people to understand.
Haven't faced the question in a while though. |
10-26-2006, 07:10 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,469
| | I have friends that want to send me healthy recipes, usually something that I can't eat, like with rice. Then when I tell them I can't have rice much (seldom ever), they are always so surprised "because Chinese people are so healthy, and they eat it all the time." Then they will ask me if I am sure I can't have "this or that". Duh, I have only been dealing with this for a lifetime, I am so glad you decided to educate me. Of course I don't say that, I just say Thanks for the recipe and let it go...well, until someone asks me how I liked the recipe I didn't try. 
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8/26/08 A1C 6.4
Cholesterol below 100
BP 114/64
Still anemic
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10-26-2006, 08:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 615
| | | I just say
well no i mean yes i can can...i mean i can have whatever i want in moderation jsut like everyone else
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10-26-2006, 08:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 31
| | | haha i get it all the time, i tell usually tell people i cant eat it but eat it anyways right in their face. I love the looks. |
10-27-2006, 01:44 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,059
| | | Depends on the person. If it's someone I like, I'll be surprised they brought it up but I'll elaborate and remind them I'm on a regime that lets me eat and do what I like. If it's someone I don't like, I simply say, "I've had diabetes for 8 years. Do you really think you know what I can and can't do better than I do? Are you a doctor? No, you f***ing aren't." |
10-27-2006, 01:46 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 2,948
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Originally Posted by DeusXM  Depends on the person. If it's someone I like, I'll be surprised they brought it up but I'll elaborate and remind them I'm on a regime that lets me eat and do what I like. If it's someone I don't like, I simply say, "I've had diabetes for 8 years. Do you really think you know what I can and can't do better than I do? Are you a doctor? No, you f***ing aren't." |
Oh! Deus! I'm shocked! You wouldn't swear at an innocent food nazi would you?!
It's much more satisfying to punch them...Lol
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10-27-2006, 04:50 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Delaware, USA
Posts: 706
| | | The running joke at my office seems to be "Becky, crank that thing up to stun- we're having donuts at today's meeting!" My co-workers all know that I use a pump and have gotten over most of their food nazi ways. When they don't, I remind them that they sound like my grandmother and that usually puts an end to it. Truthfully, I think the T2 ones are jealous that I can have have a donut and still have a normal BG 2-3 hours later.
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