Has anyone been successful in fending off chronic saboteurs?
I contemplated getting back on MRC for several months and deliberately started this plan AFTER all my friends and frequent lunch dates had left town for the summer, and left to my own devices I did a great job of staying on plan and being content. Over the course of the last couple of weeks, however, some of these folks have started drifting back into town. One in particular is giving me a world of grief over my diet.
I have repeatedly stated that I am making a conscientious choice to improve my health so that I do not develop Type 2 diabetes and do not have to have foot surgery. This person has the desk directly behind me in our little grad student office, and we spend several hours a day together. She is constantly offering me candy, potato chips, and tuna fish salads, all of which I normally wouldn't eat anyway. I have thus far successfully declined all such offers, but she is constantly telling me that my diet is too restrictive and that I really need more sugar and more salt and that what I'm doing looks too much like Atkins and that isn't healthy. I've tried to make it clear that my doctor is monitoring me and isn't going to let me do anything that would make me sick, but it sure would help my case if I hadn't been such a rag doll the entire time she's been back. I think the most frustrating thing is that she is constantly badgering me to go to various greasy spoons for lunch or join her for dinner for things that are off plan, and she doesn't seem willing to acknowledge or accomodate my new eating preferences. I'm finding that I'm starting to really resent her, and I'm angry with myself for not having been able to nip it in the bud. This girl just had a baby and her husband is in Iraq, so I can see where she might be lonely and in need of some social time, but I'm afraid that social time is teetering on being at my expense.
In other news, I have a fatigue/weakness update. My doctor got my blood work back today. It was inconclusive, but he wants me to start a low dose of a thyroid supplement and give it a shot for the next two months to see if I start feeling better. I hope it works! I'm not crazy about the thought of having to take that kind of medicine forever, but I'm even less crazy about being completely worn out. At least I might have come up with a fashionable ailment, though. Isn't Oprah on a thyroid supplement, too?