You know, living with type 2 diabetes is certainly a change of life, but it doesn’t have to be a bad change. There are no two ways about it, diabetes is a serious disease and can be a deadly disease. But, actually, the change is more in lifestyle than it is in life. Look at it this way. Are you still going to sleep at night? Are you still going to go to work and earn a living? Are you still going to eat? I’m just taking three things here that you do every day. Will you stop doing these things after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? I think the answer is “no”. You will continue doing these things. So let’s move on.
Before I go any further, I’m not giving you a do as I say, not as I do pep talk. I am a diabetic. I became a diabetic at the age of 59. Talk about set in your ways, boy, was I. Worst of all, I was a lover of sweets, particularly cakes and donuts. And, I wasn’t the most active person either. So as you might imagine, I was really changing life with diabetes, or should I say going into a lifestyle change and I am just communicating my personal outlooks to you. It may help.
Living well with diabetes is not a reach. In fact, I found it much easier than I first thought. For me, there were immediate changes in my diet. There were immediate changes in the timing of my meals and or snacks. So, yes, this did take some getting used to, but the thing is, it really wasn’t that difficult. Where I use to skip breakfast, I made sure I ate breakfast every day. Where I may have skipped lunch in the past, I now ate lunch each and every day. And, of course I ate dinner. Now, the really new thing about my living with diabetes was eating snacks. Can you imagine, three meals every day and snacks too. It seemed I was eating all the time. But here’s the thing, I was doing all this eating at approximately the same time every day. This is another important factor in living well with diabetes. When I say living well, I mean living in a way that keeps your diabetic condition under control so you can do all the things you always did. I ate three meals and three snacks every single day. But unless you are already knowledgeable about diet and diabetes, they are things you are going to need to learn about diabetic food. Are you ‘ok’ to this point? You still eating, still sleeping, still going to work and earning a living and you’re eating six times a day. Life is good.
If you are active, that is a plus for you. Exercise is good for a diabetic. You are in a good position to continue living well with type 2 diabetes. You may have to consider some other factors of your exercise program though. This is because diabetes can cause so many complications for you if you do not handle the disease correctly. So, some reading may be in order so you can learn about the do’s and don’ts. Get some information about extended size diabetic socks as well as diabetic shoes. So there, now you have added another item to living with diabetes. Life is good, isn’t it?
Look, if you don’t know much about the diabetic condition, talk to your doctor and read. The more you read about it, the more you are going to learn and the better you are going to do with this disease. I’m sure you will find, as I did, that although life has dealt you a cruel blow, it is not the end. Living with type 2 diabetes and living well, is possible.
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