"No fruit at all? Cutting out an entire food group like that is dangerous!" - my Dad's current partner, who happens to be recovering from a heart attack.

Most people have been supportive though. Without necessarily meaning to, I seem to have inspired one or two others I know to re-evaluate their diet as well. These are people who have known me for most of my life, so they are recognising that if someone like me - who was forever resigned to always being fat - might one day no longer be fat, then it might be something worth looking at closely for themselves too.