thanks for all the input.

tsayonah <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Plus I am a child of the typical
> American culture and was taught to invest a lot of emotion
> into my food.  I suspect your parents are either very like
> me or either of my parents or a combination of us.

Yes, emotional eating plays a big part in this.

> Here's what I would suggest:  Find out exactly what diet
> they are being given.  No doubt it will be the typical
> "diabetic" or "weightloss" diet that restricts everything
> :)  A few weeks more or less of this diet isn't going to do
> any more harm than they have already got going on, so spend
> some time seeing how they do with it.  LISTEN to what they
> say, especially their complaints.  Don't try to teach now;
> simply establish rapport.  Now, take the things they are
> griping about most and try to come up with something close
> that is also nearly paleo.  Make up the food yourself and
> take it as a gift.  Do they miss ice cream?  Make them some
> frozen fruit smoothie.  That kind of thing.  Just remember
> that these folk are like the rest of us were - ADDICTED to
> the foods that are hurting them.


I found this really really useful, thanks!
Also thanks to those who recommended the Shwartzbein Principle, I
haven't seen this book yet and will go check it out.

Jana