On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 08:02  AM, Theola Walden Baker wrote:

>> This leads to compromises, which I am
>> sometimes willing to make for the sake of harmonious family and social
>> relationships.
>
> Harmonious to whom--others or the inner you?   Sounds like you've
> created a
> no-win (damned if you eat, damned if you don't) emotional state for
> yourself
> for how you perceive yourself and how you think others perceive you.
> But,
> horrors, if your family/friends really do give you hell about what you
> eat/don't eat, then you're surrounded by a pack of control freaks.

Nah, just mother-in-law. I eat most of what she cooks when I visit her
house, if that isn't common politeness I don't know what is. And she
for her part keeps a few big pieces of meat in the fridge to feed me
when I come.