Sometimes, Michele, family and close friends just will not *get it*. That's when you have to let go of their approval being important to you and walk the path that you feel is best for you and your own health. What works for one will not work for another.
Humor is the prelude to faith and Laughter is the beginning of prayer. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I want to be an "outrageous" old woman who never gets called an old lady. I want to be wiser, resonate love & peace and be earth-colored, till I fade away from pure joy!
Michele, My FIL messes with the doctors all the time. He will loads of Ice Cream a week or so before the fast for the test and his numbers will be sky high, the next he'll eat salads and lots of veggies before the fast and the numbers will be really low. He has decided it's a new fad that keeps you buy drugs, and if you eat and exercise right it shouldn't be a problem (he's 85 and in better shape than most of us, rides a Air Dyne each day for 20 to 30 minutes) KarenP