Our HR guy, who isn’t what you’d call the most perceptive person ever, asked me “have you lost weight?” “yep, which is why you’ll never see me at the cafeteria!” “OOOOOH” He’d been wondering, because the only people who go there are the admin team (which includes him) and my two closest coworkers (we work for the same client, but not in the same team, and frankly they’re not the nicest people to eat with).
Sometimes I call that same cafe for their takeaway, but what I do is eat one dish per meal, as the portions are “sized for truckers”.
Weight had been going up in the last month so I’ve tightened up the diet. Going back down nicely.
And, ok, this kind of doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but hey, thread about diets. My mother’s sister is… a very passionate person. She loves you or hates you, “like” isn’t in her vocabulary. She’s also not very good at the whole “logic” thing. In 2003 her husband was diagnosed with a type of cancer which would just a few decades before have been one of those countdown sentences; medication kept him alive, lucid and mobile until late spring of 2010, he died in August of that same year. She’s chosen to blame all the ills of the world on medication; if you hear her talk about it, ISIS is actually a pharmaceutical conspiracy. She’s now living in Grandma’s flat in Barcelona, Grandma in an old folks’ home nearby. Mom was there a couple of weeks ago and came back saying “I’d say your aunt is crazier every day but I can’t, she’s always been nuts. At least that new diet means we didn’t have our lunches together and gave me some ‘me’ time, may have kept me from strangling her”.
She’s trying to manage diabetes and several necrotic spots :eek: in her legs and chest :eek::eek: with diet. When she was diagnosed with diabetes (which was identified as the cause of the spots), she refused all medication because medication doesn’t do anything and I can do this and I will. The doctor said “ok, if that’s what you want that’s what you’ll have, and I have some forms you’ll need to fill up. Since you’re so keen on ‘no medication’, would you also like to fill up your ‘end of life care’ form and indicate ‘no meds’? Would saline be acceptable, or not?”
She’s eating less and less ingredients and has now gone completely vegan. There’s a vegetarian restaurant just one block away from the house; the first time she went there and started grilling the waitress on the exact list of ingredients for each dish, the waitress pointed out that they are all listed on the menu but if somebody wants a change, they can call in advance, make a reservation and ask for changes so their order is ready when they arrive, would you like to do that next time? She’s been eating most of her lunches there, made to order.
I strongly doubt diet can manage necrotic spots… but I guess she’s happy inasmuch as she’s ever been, because she feels In Charge.
Just… don’t do that. OK guys?
