How do I handle food as a diabetic when the family LOVES to eat?!
Question: I am a type 2 diabetic, on Insulin, glucophage, and starlix. My sugars are only good when I strictly watch my diet and I really feel good then. But my husband, son, and two grown daughters all love food and I do too unfortunately! How can I convince my daughters specifically that feeding me isn't love, that it can kill me or worse make me a permanently handicapped person? How can I RESIST eating what makes everyone so, so happy? 'Just say no' isn't working--I need a technique that gives me strength in the heat of the moment not to 'indulge' when everyone is. Help.....................!
Answers: I am a type 2 diabetic, on Insulin, glucophage, and starlix. My sugars are only good when I strictly watch my diet and I really feel good then. But my husband, son, and two grown daughters all love food and I do too unfortunately! How can I convince my daughters specifically that feeding me isn't love, that it can kill me or worse make me a permanently handicapped person? How can I RESIST eating what makes everyone so, so happy? 'Just say no' isn't working--I need a technique that gives me strength in the heat of the moment not to 'indulge' when everyone is. Help.....................!
Which do you love more, your life or your taste buds?
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i am diabetic too i went and buy different kinds of foods and found alot i love try the flavored waters at wal mart i love them there is nestle strawberry, lemon, fruit one is my favorite. then they got no sugar ice cream it is great. look for foods with no sugar. or the other option is to meet Jesus early. it is up to you make a difference or die.
i never suffer anymore. it took me time but, i am making it fine now. don't miss sugar at all.
You should hang up pics on the fridge of people who had their limbs cut off from diabetes complications and point to that when your daughters try to give you something. Hopefully they will stop that day. If not, put up a picture of a gravestone and point to that. I know it is mean, but they will get permanent mental pictures from then on. To help yourself is much harder....try to find something with as little carbs as possible and chow on that. Like a giant platter of veggies you enjoy with some low-fat dressing so then you are still eating and involved. I know that veggies don't sound appealing at ALL when everyone around you is eating good, filling carb-filled foods, but maybe they could be kind and eat less around you or at a different time. Eating with others while being a diabetic can seem at times like you are a drug addict and everyone else around you is doing them. Or more like a smoker who caught a disease from smoking and everyone else is continuing to smoke. Life is not fair and we can only hope to have others understand where we are coming from and try to have them help us as we try as hard as we can to help ourselves. Also, you can talk to your doc about going on insulin, it is not as scary as it seems and then you can adjust your medicine to what you eat so you can eat a lot at times. Good luck!!
You need to tell them right to their faces, "If you want me around to enjoy my grandchildren QUIT encouraging me to eat things that will damage my health". You're an adult and you need to take responsibility for your own health. Anyone that won't support you in that needs to be told very directly to KNOCK IT OFF.
try new things healthy and good for you and they could have the things that you cant but tell them not infront of you like that you dont danger you health
Perhaps you could make an appointment with a nutrionist that would agree to see the whole family at once and they can support and back you up that you need to now eat a certain way. And they may also explain, if the family truly over eats, that others in the family may be putting themselves at future risk of developing diabetes.