I was inspired to post this question because of some of the discussion in another post that talked about food anxiety as a diabetic.
I'd love to hear discussions of issues you have experienced or not experienced related to food anxiety and eating with others.
I'll be honest here, I was fascinated by the intersection of T1 vs T2 food anxiety raised in that other discussion. I fully believe that they are very different diseases. I fully believe the experiences and treatments are also very different. Nonetheless, diabetes is defined as a symptom: high blood glucose. And, the comorbidities come about from that symptom not the cause. Thus, I believe there's a lot we have in common.
One more honest confession. I'm pretty thick-skinned. I don't care that much what others think.
Nonetheless, I had (have?) food anxieties.
Mine weren't "oh, God, they're judging me for the horrible way I eat" but were more "oh, God, how can I eat with them when there's nothing I can eat."
For me, I quickly figured it it that low carb had to be. The required lunch meetings with pizza were hell for a while. I'd either eat a piece and go to high (and be hungry) or eat nothing, get strange looks and be hungry.
Or the anxiety I'd feel when my wife and son felt guilty cooking a pasta meal because they were tired of eating with me. I didn't mid them doing it and was fine on my own, but I hated that they felt bad about it.
I'm mostly past all that. Pizza lunches mean I eat just the toppings and toss the crust and don't care what anyone thinks. The wife and son have become comfortable with planning a meal I can't participate in.
But, there are still issues like the wedding this weekend where the only thing I could eat was the salad, or the time the new boss offered to buy the first round at the new microbrew pub in town that only served beer. At the wedding, I just ate salad, felt bad explaining why at the table, and regretted I hadn't brought an emergency food stash in the car. At the microbrew, I went with just one 8oz, high alcohol content beer that I nursed and saw the highest reading in a year when I got home.
What are your social earring experiences? How do you deal with it?
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