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Originally Posted by stellabeam  This I know is very sensible, and obvious, but the casual "no thanks" does not roll easily off my tongue.
2 of my close friends are quite confronted by my refusal of sugar and think I am being extremist. It is just ignorance on their part, but they go out of their way to make it difficult, even though i have tried to tell them how important it is. |
If those were my friends, I'd confront them in a non-threatening way the next time it happens, in a very neutral tone of voice: "Why are you trying to get me to eat something that has no health benefits for me, and which I've told you I'm not eating? Why is it important or necessary to you that I eat sugar?"
It's a natural human tendency to attempt to defend our own bad habits by dragging others into them with us; the rationale is "Really, what I'm doing isn't so bad. Here, have some!" It's a psychological relief when companions validate our bad habits by joining in. Heck, the attempt to drag people away from the commitment to not eating sugar has even happened here in this thread, which is pretty fascinating.