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I had issues with blood sugar drops all of my life from when i was roughly 12 years old. Of course I did not know what it was but I showed signs that something was not right and my mother tested me for diabetes on a few occasions which was only a basic test, which says nothing. It took me to turn 30, seriously overweight and pregnant to finally get a proper diabetes test and the hounding down of my very bad eating "habits" began...It was all my fault according to every health care professional, if only I stopped eating so much.
I can now say that in hindsight, this eating habits thing and the "addicted to certain foods" is a load of [insert expletive]. At some point, about two years ago, I possibly got better meds or something changed in my body.. something "clicked" and I finally felt no need to over eat any longer. I stopped stuffing bars of chocolate and crisps into me every day and my body started to reject the insane amounts of carbs that I used to crave.
No, this is not because I lost weight, in fact I had gained weight because on recommendation on the doctors I had shed a huge amount of weight in my mid thirties and staved off the progress of diabetes for a while. I starved myself for it for over two years and yes, I felt healthier and I felt much better all around and I found it weird that people in the streets did not stare and laugh at me any longer but...
... when you tell your doctor that you starved yourself for two years, they expect you to carry right on with it until I asked my previous GP, have you ever been hungry every minute of your life for over a year? He obviously never thought of it that way.
He put me forward to having some weight loss surgery but with my social anxiety and the prospect of even more hanging skin, which was my constant reminder of the lost weight, I bottled out and did not go ahead with it. BTW I call weight loss surgery "prescribed anorexia" because it is exactly that, it is making no difference to the underlying issue and it is depriving the body of nutrients that it may need as opposed to just cutting down on the calories. Yes, you are supposed to change your lifestyle and go exercise like a maniac (try that when you got arthritis, a frozen shoulder and other issues). UNSUSTAINABLE you probably won't lose weight forever unless you remove, cut, staple or strangle the stomach and you get bullied into not eating what your body demands.
Personally, I decided that I will never let anyone restrict the amount of courgettes I eat but weight loss surgery will do that. Same with the choice of food or drink, I will not get my stomach to the size that I cannot drink as much as I need and this is another thing, I transformed my bad kidneys into seriously good ones by drinking, as much as I want, as often as I want ... but obviously it was camomile tea which I was crazy about for as long it took until my kidneys were great again.
Next lot of health care professionals "you need to lose weight" ... told them that I lost already 1/3 of my previous body weight .... it was as if I had not said anything. Told them that I would get very upset if they continued to patronise me and minimise my efforts to lose weight.... and then something clicked inside me.
Suddenly, I lose weight, I am not overly hungry any more, I have barely any cravings for sweets or crisps...
All I want now is somebody medical to take notice and for once maybe accept that there might be much more than "comfort eating", "habits", "addictions", "out of control" etc etc to it... WAKE UP medical profession and find the issue because nobody is born to eat themselves into an early grave (apart from people with Prader - Willy Syndrome of course). Nobody enjoys hauling around a body for what you are being laughed at, ridiculed, belittled and shamed for. So I lost 4 stone, naturally, no diet, no "regime" no gym etc.. naturally because my body changed somewhat.
Then I took a genetic test and lo and behold, I am allergic to wheat and milk... And that is what I changed, I have a little bit of milk in my tea in the morning, I eat a very reduced amount of wheat products... why was that not found out by doctors in 2 different countries over the space of 50 years?
No more blaming game, I push the blame right back to those who claim that their whole life is devoted to curing people but when it comes to fat then they are not willing to do anything put point the finger at the patient who then stands alone with a body that gives the wrong messages and is set to fail every single diet without anyone giving you an ounce of credibility.
I needed that rant, thank you for reading it.
D.
I had issues with blood sugar drops all of my life from when i was roughly 12 years old. Of course I did not know what it was but I showed signs that something was not right and my mother tested me for diabetes on a few occasions which was only a basic test, which says nothing. It took me to turn 30, seriously overweight and pregnant to finally get a proper diabetes test and the hounding down of my very bad eating "habits" began...It was all my fault according to every health care professional, if only I stopped eating so much.
I can now say that in hindsight, this eating habits thing and the "addicted to certain foods" is a load of [insert expletive]. At some point, about two years ago, I possibly got better meds or something changed in my body.. something "clicked" and I finally felt no need to over eat any longer. I stopped stuffing bars of chocolate and crisps into me every day and my body started to reject the insane amounts of carbs that I used to crave.
No, this is not because I lost weight, in fact I had gained weight because on recommendation on the doctors I had shed a huge amount of weight in my mid thirties and staved off the progress of diabetes for a while. I starved myself for it for over two years and yes, I felt healthier and I felt much better all around and I found it weird that people in the streets did not stare and laugh at me any longer but...
... when you tell your doctor that you starved yourself for two years, they expect you to carry right on with it until I asked my previous GP, have you ever been hungry every minute of your life for over a year? He obviously never thought of it that way.
He put me forward to having some weight loss surgery but with my social anxiety and the prospect of even more hanging skin, which was my constant reminder of the lost weight, I bottled out and did not go ahead with it. BTW I call weight loss surgery "prescribed anorexia" because it is exactly that, it is making no difference to the underlying issue and it is depriving the body of nutrients that it may need as opposed to just cutting down on the calories. Yes, you are supposed to change your lifestyle and go exercise like a maniac (try that when you got arthritis, a frozen shoulder and other issues). UNSUSTAINABLE you probably won't lose weight forever unless you remove, cut, staple or strangle the stomach and you get bullied into not eating what your body demands.
Personally, I decided that I will never let anyone restrict the amount of courgettes I eat but weight loss surgery will do that. Same with the choice of food or drink, I will not get my stomach to the size that I cannot drink as much as I need and this is another thing, I transformed my bad kidneys into seriously good ones by drinking, as much as I want, as often as I want ... but obviously it was camomile tea which I was crazy about for as long it took until my kidneys were great again.
Next lot of health care professionals "you need to lose weight" ... told them that I lost already 1/3 of my previous body weight .... it was as if I had not said anything. Told them that I would get very upset if they continued to patronise me and minimise my efforts to lose weight.... and then something clicked inside me.
Suddenly, I lose weight, I am not overly hungry any more, I have barely any cravings for sweets or crisps...
All I want now is somebody medical to take notice and for once maybe accept that there might be much more than "comfort eating", "habits", "addictions", "out of control" etc etc to it... WAKE UP medical profession and find the issue because nobody is born to eat themselves into an early grave (apart from people with Prader - Willy Syndrome of course). Nobody enjoys hauling around a body for what you are being laughed at, ridiculed, belittled and shamed for. So I lost 4 stone, naturally, no diet, no "regime" no gym etc.. naturally because my body changed somewhat.
Then I took a genetic test and lo and behold, I am allergic to wheat and milk... And that is what I changed, I have a little bit of milk in my tea in the morning, I eat a very reduced amount of wheat products... why was that not found out by doctors in 2 different countries over the space of 50 years?
No more blaming game, I push the blame right back to those who claim that their whole life is devoted to curing people but when it comes to fat then they are not willing to do anything put point the finger at the patient who then stands alone with a body that gives the wrong messages and is set to fail every single diet without anyone giving you an ounce of credibility.
I needed that rant, thank you for reading it.
D.