HpprKM
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Not wishing to get over sentimental - but I would like to share my following thoughts for anyone who might care to read them.
First of all, congratulations to Bob, what an amazing example he is. He gives hope to all diabetics, I agree with his philosophy about 'eating to live, not living to eat'. Although, fortunately, I have never felt that I lived to eat I have to admit to my love of what, in my mind, are now 'forbidden fruits', or what I call the nice things - sweets, cakes and delicious desserts etc and never a big fan of things like crisps and, yes, I do miss these. For example, when out for the day with my husband yesterday we called into a coffee shop, where there was a wonderful array of cakes and biscuits on offer and the nice man behind the counter asking if I could be tempted by them,(oh, how I would love to be able to have a nice piece of carrot, or coffee cake), but I managed to resist laughing and saying 'I'm not allowed'
. Conversely, I seemed to find giving up the sweet things so much easier when first diagnosed, I merely told myself they were 'poison' to me :!: As time goes on I have to admit it is often a struggle.
But want I really want to say is this, when I was diagnosed with T2 I was devastated seeing my life span shrink - up until then having always a felt that a good chance of longevity was on my side, with both parents living well into their 80s. I have never really admitted this feeling to anyone before, and I for one am really pleased to hear a positive story such as Bob's.
Now I am trying (not always as successfully as I would like) to do all the right things to still increase my life expectancy and ward off the long term effects of living with diabetes, much of the support coming from this forum. This is my daily challenge - self improvement on combating diabetes. We all know that it is an ongoing, daily battle and not always an easy road, and quite frankly I would have felt so very different and less positive without so much support from so many people and so much advice afforded by the such places as this forum.
Thanks diabetes forum for printing this story of inspiration
Thanks to all the other diabetics who use this forum and support one another
First of all, congratulations to Bob, what an amazing example he is. He gives hope to all diabetics, I agree with his philosophy about 'eating to live, not living to eat'. Although, fortunately, I have never felt that I lived to eat I have to admit to my love of what, in my mind, are now 'forbidden fruits', or what I call the nice things - sweets, cakes and delicious desserts etc and never a big fan of things like crisps and, yes, I do miss these. For example, when out for the day with my husband yesterday we called into a coffee shop, where there was a wonderful array of cakes and biscuits on offer and the nice man behind the counter asking if I could be tempted by them,(oh, how I would love to be able to have a nice piece of carrot, or coffee cake), but I managed to resist laughing and saying 'I'm not allowed'
. Conversely, I seemed to find giving up the sweet things so much easier when first diagnosed, I merely told myself they were 'poison' to me :!: As time goes on I have to admit it is often a struggle.But want I really want to say is this, when I was diagnosed with T2 I was devastated seeing my life span shrink - up until then having always a felt that a good chance of longevity was on my side, with both parents living well into their 80s. I have never really admitted this feeling to anyone before, and I for one am really pleased to hear a positive story such as Bob's.
Now I am trying (not always as successfully as I would like) to do all the right things to still increase my life expectancy and ward off the long term effects of living with diabetes, much of the support coming from this forum. This is my daily challenge - self improvement on combating diabetes. We all know that it is an ongoing, daily battle and not always an easy road, and quite frankly I would have felt so very different and less positive without so much support from so many people and so much advice afforded by the such places as this forum.
Thanks diabetes forum for printing this story of inspiration
Thanks to all the other diabetics who use this forum and support one another 
