Chocolate Rant!

I miss chocolate!! No, not the teeny one square a day thing but the whole block! The whole packet of choccy biccies, in fact the whole truckload of stuff I used to enjoy that has dumped me in this situation! I know, I know, this is an absolutely useless post, not helpful to man nor beast and particularly not to those of us who are suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of carb and chocolate deprivation (Sorry Mr Shakespeare :wink: ) but oh dear oh dear……

There are those of us on here who, through no fault of their own, are afflicted with this diabetes misfortune. Those people who aren't overweight, who haven’t practiced the wholesale destruction of their bodies by over-indulging at every opportunity ever since they could crawl to the biscuit barrel and prise open the lid with their chubby fingers, who are fit and active and always have been. Me? Nah…that’s not me. The blame, and it probably is blame, lays solely at my door. There was no known diabetes in my family, both my parents were thin as rails, my siblings are normally weighted but me? well there you have it.

Now I am aware of my situation, I do the right things almost all the time. I eat as many carbs as is necessary to allow me lose weight efficiently but to not hypo. I feel much fitter having lost almost 30kgs, I can move easier, my clothes are fitting me, even the ones I never thought I would fit into. My blood results are spot on and all in all, I am doing okay but………I STILL MISS CHOCOLATE!

Rant over

Daibell said:

Erm. You said you are not overweight and didn't indulge yet you say you have lost 30Kg?? Some conflict there?

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Ah yes, I see where I went wrong there. I meant, even if I sounded a tad confused at the time, that I WAS overweight unlike all those people who did everything right. Anyway, deleted that bit

I know about dark chocolate and we have some lovely ones here right up to 90% cocoa but having it anywhere near me, even dark stuff that I don't really like, is dangerous! It's better for me to go on missing it really, sad though that is.

skipbifferty said:

You're falling into the trap that diabetics cant eat chocolate.

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Thanks for the post skipbifferty. I am a T2 and know just what a bar of chocolate will do to my levels, it sends them sky high. I know that a wee piece now and again probably doesn't do much damage but really it's more about missing the freedom of having just what I want and not thinking about it.

I was thinking the other day though, that this diabetes trauma may be a weird blessing in disguise. It's given me the kick up the behind I needed to get on track and take care of my health, to be more aware of what does and doesn't keep me well and I think that the more self-awareness I have the better!

elizabethenaj said:

Oh Popsy,

a soulmate at last!. I was diagnosed last month with Type 2 and miss chocolate, biscuits, cakes, desserts.........I think you get the picture. I too take full responsibility for my health but feel totally cheated.

I love salads, vegetables and other healthy foods but I miss the being able to have an unplanned snack when I want one, I miss diving into a packet of biscuits in the car after visiting the supermarket and I also feel as if this is all a temporary situation which will 'get better and allow me to eat normally again'. It won't!

I do have good control of sugar levels though so must be doing something right........how on earth will we manage at Christmas?

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You've only been diagnosed a month, that's doing the hard yards. It's a shock but a challenge and you sound like you are up for that!

But that's it, the unplanned bit, the standing next to the check out and fancying a wee something but having to stop ourselves. I don't find it difficult mostly just sometimes it gets a bit much, but it's that kind of uncontrolled behaviour that got me in this fix in the first place! Christmas has been bothering me too but WhitbyJet suggested this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23840&hilit=chocolate+paradise

Maybe we can take some of those and still have some treats

julifriend said:

I buy the six square small blocks of Cadburys Whole Nut chocolate. Whilst it has quite a few calories, it does nothing at all to my BG levels. I've adopted the same scheme we used for giving our children sweets when they were younger. We only let them have sweets when there was a T in the day, so Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays. It gives me something to look forward to.

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Now that is a stonking good idea, I love the T in the day thing, something I could maybe manage. I might try this, perhaps my BG's could deal with this! Something to look forward to too.

Thank you!