This weekend there will be a family gathering to celebrate the birthday of one of my brother-in-laws. Usually this is accompanied with sitting around, talking, fun and a lot of good (healthy) grilled food, wine and (not so healthy) cake and ice cream. At this point I am not yet sure how I want to handle the situation. It’s going to be a veggie day but by the time we will be there it’s going to be too late to eat (usually after 6 pm). I am contemplating of finding an excuse, well, or to say that I am on a special food diet and that I want to avoid the temptation and leave it at that. I just don’t know if I am strong enough to go and say the same without having to go into more detail. Which I don’t really want to. Or do I send a link to this blog to the family members before hand and “pre-warn” them? I guess the problem is somewhat that compared to USA’s overweight woman I am not. It is not that people in general would not be supportive, but I never like having to explain myself. And I want to avoid the “but you don’t need it” reactions. Those I hate the most. Of course I don’t “need it” in the absolute sense. But I do need it, else I would not do it. And the smells of fresh grilled food IS hard to live with, those sensors definitely go off, even if I am not hungry…

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