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who else finds that stress is a major factor in how their diabetes control works or fails?
anything from snide remarks to really bad situations can be so harmful - dont you agree
for example - people eat one piece of chicken and the chips and the gravy and the 3 types of veggie and the dressing on their salad and that is fine, but god forbid the carb counting diabetic who cannot have any of those additions to their meal and so resorts to having an extra piece of chicken or two instead - you are made to feel like you are a gluttonous pig, even when you explain it and show the calorie count of the food and it works out that the judgmental person is actually consuming more calories than the poor diabetic taking those extra 2 chicken drumsticks they still look on the poor diabetic judgmentally and it hurts emotionally for people to be so judgmental and it adds to stress load and so leads to worse diabetic control of blood glucose
I had this happen with the mother-in-law and ended up not eating at all during the day and then gorging myself in the middle of the night when she was asleep. the woman was counting even the droplets of water I drank or did not drink when she was a guest in my house and of course it was none of her business and I should not have fallen for creating a bad situation for my health because of her snide remarks, but I did and since then I have banned her from my life- too harmful for my health
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anything from snide remarks to really bad situations can be so harmful - dont you agree
for example - people eat one piece of chicken and the chips and the gravy and the 3 types of veggie and the dressing on their salad and that is fine, but god forbid the carb counting diabetic who cannot have any of those additions to their meal and so resorts to having an extra piece of chicken or two instead - you are made to feel like you are a gluttonous pig, even when you explain it and show the calorie count of the food and it works out that the judgmental person is actually consuming more calories than the poor diabetic taking those extra 2 chicken drumsticks they still look on the poor diabetic judgmentally and it hurts emotionally for people to be so judgmental and it adds to stress load and so leads to worse diabetic control of blood glucose
I had this happen with the mother-in-law and ended up not eating at all during the day and then gorging myself in the middle of the night when she was asleep. the woman was counting even the droplets of water I drank or did not drink when she was a guest in my house and of course it was none of her business and I should not have fallen for creating a bad situation for my health because of her snide remarks, but I did and since then I have banned her from my life- too harmful for my health
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