cherries - hope things improve for you. I can totally understand why you're so upset, there's nothing to be ashamed about as far as your reaction goes.
C4 - gorgeous baby! Hope you manage to get on the flight and all goes well. Do you need any of us to come and cause a distraction at the airport whilst you smuggle yourself onboard?
Does anyone know how cholesterol reacts to this woe? My mother has just been diagnosed as diabetic and I know this would help, but she has high cholesterol and I know that she'll use that as her main argument against it. That, and the fact she has strong feeling re diet, all against this woe. I know that, when I next see her, she'll complain long and hard that I'm not eating bread, pasta and potatoes, and will argue that I 'need' them to survive. Plus, she's spent the last 30+ years on a low fat diet, and is firmly of the opinion that oils and fats will send you to an early grave. I've had a tiny bottle of olive oil at her house for years which I use when I'm there, but she never touches it as it's 'evil'! So chenging her mindset to accept LCHF will be tricky enough as it is, even more so if she thinks she has a medical reason not to try it.
I'm doing ok. The weekend wasn't entirely carb free (sorry Clear!) but yesterday was much better. DP was, once again, taken by surprise that I wouldn't be eating any roast tatties, carrots or parsnips on Sunday. You'd think he'd understand what LCHF consists of by now, but apparently not!
I'm bracing myself for next week. A friend of ours is visiting, and I'm not really looking forward to it. He's a lovely, generous chap (paid for me to take a long-haul flight to visit him and his family many years ago) but his personality is a tad abrasive. Last time he was here he asked me the same question three times in 15 minutes, each time turning back to DP to ask him something just when I'd started replying to him. And his wife runs around after him all the time, and he expects me to do the same. Plus all this is a lot worse when he's drunk, which he will be, and DP will play up to him when he's had a drink too, so I'll get it from both of them. I only hope DP doesn't bring his other friend back to the house as well. If he wants him round for dinner too I'm tempted to jump on a bus and leave them to it. This other friend mentioned cooking for me over a year ago, and I'm still waiting!!!!!
It will be good for DP to have this friend here, though, so I'm not complaining too much. He saw a mental health nurse yesterday, and was, apparently, completely honest with her, which is a huge step for him. He told me he'd even admitted stuff concerning me, which is totally unlike him to mention to others. [Don't worry, it's nothing bad, though she did start questioning whether he's violent to me, but he's not. It's just unlike him to mention me to people full stop.]