From a forum on South Beach: This really hits the spot on how I am going to have to think about my food decisions. It's not a diet, thats the weak way to think about what I'm doing for my body, it's a healthier choice. I need to lose weight but gain the strength to say no. I need to worry about what MY family is eating and not what someone else has - even though they may be well educated & in the medical field "Hello - I am responding to your question of telling friend/family that I am on a diet.. I have found that I try to never use the word diet - I don't know what psychologically happens when I say that word to family/friends, but it seems to put me in a deprived weak place. So I have been keeping my mouth shut and just moving forward with eating properly. It seems I have to put myself in a place of strength rather than deprivation. Of course they are always pushing those high carbs on me, so I just say that I have really decided that my health is very important to me - and that also puts me in a place of strength. It is amazing when people start looking up to you for caring about the way you eat - instead of "you poor thing I feel so bad that you can't eat this or that feeling". When I say diet and I lose my place of strength that makes them look like the lucky one - and I sit there knowing they are stuffing their bodies full of things that will end up harming them in the end. Sometimes it appears they are getting by with it - but it usually catches up someday. That is why also it is important for me to set an example to my family if I can, and some day they will follow. I have told them I have been looking at SB and think it has some extremely good recipes/ideas and suggestions that I like and just don't keep talking unless they ask more, and they amazingly usually don't. Seems like everyone has to hit bottom on their own before reaching out. for help.
I also am in post menopause and that is when I really started gaining the extra pounds and I think I have used that for an excuse the last 3 years;however, I feel that if I think of this as a "forever "way of eating as best I can- as I know we fall off the wagon some days- .then not only will I regain my health but eventually my body has to follow. I feel there are so many emotions attached to this change and I have been on many "diet" programs in the past and they were just temporary changes. This SB is a new life for me.Hope it will be for you- I think each day you get stronger and stronger - some day I plan for it to be very easy. I am on day 6 - hope to hear some responses. I will probably be on this online support the rest of my life! Isn't it strange that I can usually get more support from a stranger than I can my own family and friends. .Some day I will be promoting the SB to all my friends/family when they stat asking why I feel and look better - but I'm not going to sabotage myself now. by talking "diet"diet". Bye now - hope this helps and I hope I don't get kicked off for talking too much."
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