Can People Stop Saying, "oh So You're On The Atkins Diet."

[jkmunchkin]

This is a mini-rant. Usually peoples assanine comments don't really bother me to much but today I was chatting with the lady who waxes my eyebrows and we were talking about what we were doing for Thanksgiving. She was telling me everything she was making for all her guests and after each thing was asking if I liked that. (we are both Russian - although she was actually born there. A lot of the stuff is ethnic that people not familiar with the cuisine might not know but she knew I would know it). A good majority of it was stuff I can't eat the way she was making it, so I eventually said, oh I can't eat a lot of that and briefly said I'm allergic to wheat. Apparently white flour is not wheat, or atleast so she thought until I corrected her and her expression turned to a look of horror. LOL!!

So ofcourse her next response is oh well so it's like your on the Atkins diet.

I just wanted to scream!!! It's not the friggin' Atkins diet; and you tell me the last time someone on the Atkins diet accidentally had a crumb of bread and spent the night on the bathroom floor and several days thereafter cursing the crumb!

Ok I'm done ranting. I know I can share this here because you'll all understand.

[CarlaB]

I just wanted to scream!!! It's not the friggin' Atkins diet; and you tell me the last time someone on the Atkins diet accidentally had a crumb of bread and spent the night on the bathroom floor and several days thereafter cursing the crumb!

You could just say that it's similar except that you can eat as many carbs as you want as long as they're gluten-free, and if you make a mistake you're sick for a week.

[jkmunchkin]

You could just say that it's similar except that you can eat as many carbs as you want as long as they're gluten-free, and if you make a mistake you're sick for a week.

Yeah I actually did kinda say that. That is how I came to tell her I could have any carbs that didn't have flour - such as pasta.

[tarnalberry]

I respond with something like "heck no, I eat rice and grains all the time, and fruit... oh I eat lots and lots of fruit."

[debmidge]

You could just say that it's similar except that you can eat as many carbs as you want as long as they're gluten-free, and if you make a mistake you're sick for a week.

That appears to be a nice way to handle it. This way you can disagree but not let the person feel you are insulting them in some way for trying to match your diet up with Atkins.