I live with my parents (same property different building, mother cooks) and since I went keto , despite my mother not being keto, the whole family’s eating habits have changed.
In the first few months she would still make potatoes and rice and I would just refuse it no matter what, she was complaining to me that she dose so much starch and I do not eat it, that some rice will not make me fat and that she is forced to eat it all herself. She is diabetic (not insulin depended, well managed but still high blood sugar). I told her that I do not care at all about wasting starches, and that if that is the case I would take to starches with me to work and throw them, so she should better stop doing so much rice and potatoes. In the end she ended doing starch only on Sundays.
After I lost the weight despite I once promised to her I would eat starch again I did not, and dose we do not eat rice and potatoes anymore for almost a year. I attempted to convince my mother to go keto for her diabetics, she can not eat as fat as I do, she has a mental barrier for eating lard tablets and butter like me, I do not eat lard and butter like a lion with them around because I make them sick…
Overall I have being pushing my mother to go more and more low carb; She was partialy forced due to my eating habbits in the family.
A few days ago she went to the diabetics doctor for her regular check; And her Hba1c went from 7.6 to 6.6 (3 months interval ) her fasting blood sugars are 120 and her blood sugar just 2 hours after eating is barelly 130. Her doctor lowered her blood sugar drug dose and told her : “After 20 years you finally do what I prescribed to you, but strangely you gained weight.” I a bit mad at her doctor but happy that I finally see progress twords better in my mother despite her reluctance after 20 years of normal dieting.
Her lipid profile is better than mine: hdl 74, ldl114, trigs only 84… I told her she is in no major heart problem risk and to not listen to the doctor if she gives her statins
In the end I admit that some rice and high carb legumes are ok for people with ok metabolism and hormonal balance; but for diabetics they are not; for my mother the results are from eating less starches as she dose not eat sugars and dose not drink sugar beverages at all (never liked them… ) . Yet her doctor seems to not get this point … she constantly belived that my mother was eating cake and chocolate and lying to her, but she did not for 20 years; she was more of a potato, fruit and rice person.
