Ugh! What is it with people trying to force you to eat and drink things??!

Yesterday was the first day of my BIL's 4 day wedding celebrations. They had a small civil wedding ceremony followed by a champagne and cake buffet. Im 31 weeks pregnant and have stubborn gestational diabetes - I can only have a tiny amount of carbs per day (we are talking no bread at all, a max of 5 rasberries with a meal, a max of three new potatoes with each meal). I also need to combine these tiny amounts of carbohydrate with sufficient protein so it doesn't absorb too quickly. Cake, as you can imagine, was definitely out!

All through the reception, people kept approaching me with cake! Absolute strangers, often. Bring the pregnant lady cake! "Have some cake". "No thanks". "But baby needs cake". "Im sorry, I have diabetes..". "But you can have a *little bit* of cake..". "No, no I can't". The choices of drink were champagne (alcohol) or fruit juice (sugar). "Have some champagne, you can have a little bit" "No thanks". "Well have some juice then" "No thanks". I had to ask the staff to bring me some tap water from the kitchen - I felt like such a party pooper!

Then, having not eaten since breakfast, I was so hungry by the time the evening buffet came out at 8pm. Imagine my horror when it was sushi platters, a selection of lovely breads with dips and pastry covered savoury snacks. There were some vegetable sticks and some salad garnish, which I ate, and there were tiny bits of flaked cooked salmon around the raw fish.... But again, cue the comments: "Baby needs food" "Surely you can have bread?" "You could have a *little bit* of pastry...." "Do you want a coffee then?" "No thanks - caffiene". Cue eye roll from other person. Its a party, I don't want to bring up my health conditions, never mind give a full blown explanation but nothing less than that makes them stop!

People!! Stop worrying about me and worry about your own dinner! Agh!

I'm just grumpy because I have three more days of this! I am going to starve at this rate!! Tonight is a traditional Jewish sabbath dinner at new SIL's parents house - its gonna be low carb right?? Right?? I don't want to offend them by refusing to eat. Plus Im not a party pooper at all, I love eating and drinking and trying new things - but I can't risk messing this up because its my baby at risk - plus if I don't control my blood sugar they will make me inject myself with insulin and I am really scared of that.....

Rant over!!

Seriously though, how annoying is it when people get in your face about your food choices? Paleo people - how do you cope???