Quote Originally Posted by westtexas View Post
I was just wondering from you guys - have you ever had others questions your food choices and you felt kind of defensive about it? Certainly ever is entitled to eat whatever they want to eat, no matter how good/bad it may be for you/them, but when people say things about your personal diet does it upset you?
Quote Originally Posted by Melalvai View Post
You thought you were just selecting different food, but everyone acts like you're making a statement, like you're trying to break away.
OK, so I'm just going to put this out there as something for folks to think about.... (Keep in mind that I follow a pretty restrictive diet too, so I understand how hard it is when someone questions your/my choices)... but hasn't anyone but me noticed that the word "garbage" has come up several times already in this thread?

"What I find is that people try to force me to eat garbage...."
"I'm very frustrated about people trying to force garbage down my throat..."

So, it seems to me that on one hand people are complaining that they don't like that people are being judgmental about their restrictive food choices, but at the same time are being quite judgmental about the food choice of other people.

You may not be *using* words like "garbage" when talking to other people about your/their food choices, but we speak with more than words.

Incidentally, this isn't directed at anyone in particular, so my apologies to those of you I've quoted here. Again, like I said, I have my own set of food restrictions that lots of people don't "get", so I'm sympathetic to the notion that people might be judging me for my choices as well.