Claudius, I'll pass that on.

Oh I showered him with praise - he went to so much effort and it was all I could do not to just drink the damned daquiri. I mean, he cut & blended all that fruit by hand!!! It *killed* me to have to say no! But he knows how much I appreciated it. And he completely understood.

I wish I could get him to at least read a little bit of DANDR so he'd have a better understanding of why I have to avoid certain things - he gets the no bread, pasta, potatos etc. Very slowly however - when I kept falling off / on the wagon, he'd not make a comment at me chowing down on fries, but if I ate pasta, he ask, "I thought you couldn't have that?". So now he understands a little more, but I really threw him with the no corn & no fruits!

He's about 30 pounds underweight and never even thinks about what he eats (when he remembers to do so), so I guess this is really a completely alien concept to him.