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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
In popular culture the term junk food junkie is casually employed by many looking to invert their undeserved guilt over a sugary snack with the same ease at which many identify as being OCD when thinking of how they want to keep their work space tidy. However, in my particular case, I cover the pathology to genuinely qualify for the pair of labels at an Olympic level, which made a diabetes diagnosis seemingly inevitable given my obsessive pursuit of starch, sugar and salt in nearly every conceivable taste combination over four decades until it all came to a halt last month. I have been stalwartly committed to a low carbohydrate high healthy fat diet since diagnosis, but with each passing day the weight of abandoning control for the delicious chaotic over-indulgence of damaging foods feels like it would be a welcome act of self destructive liberation from the perpetuity of this management regime.
It is so very hard to shut down that negative yearning, which is why I find it an invaluable service to actively connect to a network of others with diabetes for support, inspiration and hope in this trying time.
Thank you for reading this.
It is so very hard to shut down that negative yearning, which is why I find it an invaluable service to actively connect to a network of others with diabetes for support, inspiration and hope in this trying time.
Thank you for reading this.