Your family needs to know it is your body and your choice. If you chose to feed it those yummy peanut butter cups - lucky you - be sure to share so that everyone who "can't have that - it's fattening" can feel deprived or guilty - depending on what they do with them. Don't try to explain - they don't want to know, cause if they find out the truth they will have to change. In a corner of their mind, they know. Do they listen to Dr. Merkin at all. That is what saved me with my DH. Dr. Merkin says its good, it must be good. Whew! Now I don't get any flack from him at all. In fact he is sometimes the food police! Hee hee.