Hi everyone. I had posting problems earlier. Maybe it's the site's way of saying I was too longwinded. This message will definitely be shorter. 2round - kudos for losing those two pounds!
Maybe you can explain to your mil that you're being picky about what you eat because you have an illness that can affect the quality of your life and the length of your life and that it's not anything personal against her yummy food. Maybe you can convince hubby of this too and get him to join you in healthy snacks. Thanks, paperdoll and Love 2 for the snack suggestions. That soda suggestion sounds intriguing. But I don't trust myself around whipping cream -- or a jar of peanut butter. I do keep individual containers of sugar free jello with fruit bits around. I also like to eat cherry tomatoes -- it's like eating popcorn and I don't worry if I eat the whole basket. Another thing I do is cut up bell peppers in strips and put fat-free cottage cheese in them -- like h'ordeourves. I also like Laughing Cow lite cheese wedges with Ak-Mak whole wheat crackers.
I picked up a flyer at my doctor's office the other day and found a flyer for a website called DiabetesWATCH.com. It's run by a drug company but it does have a lot of useful information.
Well, hope this posts. Have a nice evening.
Great Support
After a nice long post that didn't make it you get the readers digest version. 
I'm sure some of you have learned how to deal with these kind of situations. In 2 weeks we'er going to the Dallas area for a family reunion. That will be a food feast from ****. So I'm feeling the stress already. How do I eat right and not look like I'm not part of the family.
Hmmm.
Your job sounds scary. No wonder you're stressed. I work in the legal field and sometimes I get stressed out because I have to meet a bunch of deadlines at once. But I have a lot of boring slow times, too, and that's when I have time to think about what I want for lunch (and it usually isn't lo-cal). Yes, things were so much easier when I was young -- also much easier when I was thin. I can't change the former but I can do something about the latter. And that's what were here for. I've been off the wagon for a couple of weeks and feeling the effects. I need to get back in gear so I have something good to report at my next doc appt which is in October. Hope things ease up at work for you. Have a nice evening. 
Hi, Deb, I don't know where everyone else went, except 9216 who went to Texas for a month. I've posted on several threads, but they've subsequently petered out. There are threads that are more active and regular but I hesitate to butt in since they've obviously been around a long time. Maybe you should start a thread and see where it goes. In the meantime, we can continue our dialogue. I don't post on the weekends because I don't have a computer at home. I use the boss' computer after hours. 
Been a little hung out to dry out here. I'm really needing to form some kind of plan, but things have been so hecktic here lately that it's hard to know where I'm eating my next meal. And it's off to Dallas this weekend. Hoping to slow things down a bit after that. Good idea about starting a new thread. I'll have to think on it a bit. Something to keep the girls interrested that have dibetes. Maybe we could call ourself the glucose busters. 
Hang in there and have a great day.
