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There's no disputing that the main objective of everyone with diabetes is to achieve good bg levels in the hope that it may well prevent or delay the onset of complications, however what is often overlooked and equally as hard to achieve is accepting that you have a life-long condition that will never go away, the initial stages of shock and anger often can lead to denial or partial denial where a person lives with the condition but struggles to come to terms with it. Over the years I have been in and out of both stages of denial and partial denial but believe that the last few years I may have overcome this hurdle and finally accepted my diabetes.
My reasons for believing this may be the case is due to the fact that I no longer deny or hide the fact that I have diabetes, I talk about it openly with family and friends and have even volunteered to take part in Q & A sessions with trainee doctors at the request of my consultant, also joining this forum has played a big part as I have asked for advice in the past and more than happy to pass on my own experiences living with diabetes.
Life is good at the moment and I am thankful that I have a supportive family and my diabetes control is fine, I class myself fortunate that after living with diabetes for 30 years I have no complications apart from previous episodes with diabetic retinopathy which has not troubled me for a good few years now...... how long this continues is any one's guess but I'll do my **** hardest to ensure that this continues.
You may well ask or question why I should write the above, well I thought it was fitting that I should at this time given what I have observed over the last few weeks on this forum which I will now lead onto.
To me if you are happy and content with your control and diet then you are less inclined to jump on others who may do things somewhat differently, over the last week or two I have seen a growing band of people who seem to think that it is fitting to attack those who include carbohydrates as part of a healthy well balanced diet, derogatory terms such as ''Carboholics'' has been used more than once to refer to members who choose to eat some form of carbs in their diet.
Demonising carbs and dictating what members should and shouldn't eat has no place on a forum such as this which attracts a wide diversity of people controlling their diabetes by various methods, thankfully these members who use words like ''Carboholics'' are very few and far between and the majority of members here are more than happy and content to follow a low carb/reduced carb/moderate carb diet without needing to resort to insults or scare tactics concerning carbohydrates.
It is and never has been anyone's business how members control their diabetes, we as members are only here to advise and offer support......nothing more and nothing less, so with this in mind I do hope that the Admin and the Forum Moderators will keep an eye on such tactics and take appropriate action where necessary.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to explain the above and make a few things clear!
Nigel
My reasons for believing this may be the case is due to the fact that I no longer deny or hide the fact that I have diabetes, I talk about it openly with family and friends and have even volunteered to take part in Q & A sessions with trainee doctors at the request of my consultant, also joining this forum has played a big part as I have asked for advice in the past and more than happy to pass on my own experiences living with diabetes.
Life is good at the moment and I am thankful that I have a supportive family and my diabetes control is fine, I class myself fortunate that after living with diabetes for 30 years I have no complications apart from previous episodes with diabetic retinopathy which has not troubled me for a good few years now...... how long this continues is any one's guess but I'll do my **** hardest to ensure that this continues.
You may well ask or question why I should write the above, well I thought it was fitting that I should at this time given what I have observed over the last few weeks on this forum which I will now lead onto.
To me if you are happy and content with your control and diet then you are less inclined to jump on others who may do things somewhat differently, over the last week or two I have seen a growing band of people who seem to think that it is fitting to attack those who include carbohydrates as part of a healthy well balanced diet, derogatory terms such as ''Carboholics'' has been used more than once to refer to members who choose to eat some form of carbs in their diet.
Demonising carbs and dictating what members should and shouldn't eat has no place on a forum such as this which attracts a wide diversity of people controlling their diabetes by various methods, thankfully these members who use words like ''Carboholics'' are very few and far between and the majority of members here are more than happy and content to follow a low carb/reduced carb/moderate carb diet without needing to resort to insults or scare tactics concerning carbohydrates.
It is and never has been anyone's business how members control their diabetes, we as members are only here to advise and offer support......nothing more and nothing less, so with this in mind I do hope that the Admin and the Forum Moderators will keep an eye on such tactics and take appropriate action where necessary.
Sorry for the long post but I needed to explain the above and make a few things clear!
Nigel