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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I have been trying to put weight on for about a year now after my weight dropped to 6 stone 10 before I was diagnosed with type 1 in November 2013.
Bit by bit it has been coming back and I'm now 7 stone 8 ... But I hate it I thought I wanted to put the weight on but when I look in the mirror I realise that I preferred my body as it was at 7 stone.
Everyone is telling me that I need to keep it up and get to about 8 stone so that I can afford to lose weight if I get ill (even a cold can come times cause me to lose about 4lbs in a matter of days). The problem is that I no longer want to put on any more weight. In fact I want to lose it.
I know that this is completely illogical and irrational and I don't plan in starving myself or stopping my insulin in order to lose weight. I know that my health is too fragile to risk any more problems.
I guess I just wanted to get it out there and admit to this because I'm fed up of telling everyone I agree with the fact that I need to gain weight when all I really want to do is scream at them "can you not see how fat I am now?!". Obviously they would believe me to be crazy so I keep my mouth shut
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Bit by bit it has been coming back and I'm now 7 stone 8 ... But I hate it I thought I wanted to put the weight on but when I look in the mirror I realise that I preferred my body as it was at 7 stone.
Everyone is telling me that I need to keep it up and get to about 8 stone so that I can afford to lose weight if I get ill (even a cold can come times cause me to lose about 4lbs in a matter of days). The problem is that I no longer want to put on any more weight. In fact I want to lose it.
I know that this is completely illogical and irrational and I don't plan in starving myself or stopping my insulin in order to lose weight. I know that my health is too fragile to risk any more problems.
I guess I just wanted to get it out there and admit to this because I'm fed up of telling everyone I agree with the fact that I need to gain weight when all I really want to do is scream at them "can you not see how fat I am now?!". Obviously they would believe me to be crazy so I keep my mouth shut
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