tree-peony
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MY concern is that they view this as some sort of failing and may get disheartened.
xyzzy said:Some see it as odd and maybe obsessive but to me its no more obsessive than say never eating grains or always choosing the low GI version of a food which I accept are equally powerful means of control.
mep73 said:Well one thing I've learnt is to go with the flow as things change. BGLs don't always give you what you expect either.... you just have to accept and move on. Stress is no good for diabetes and it's not a good idea to stress yourself out over it. Basically you're just aiming to not go too high or too low and keep a happy medium. How you do this is really up to what your body can tolerate... we're all different. I certainly wouldn't expect what works for me would work for someone else... and what I'm doing today may not stay the same. :lol: have fun on the rollercoaster.
borofergie said:xyzzy said:Some see it as odd and maybe obsessive but to me its no more obsessive than say never eating grains or always choosing the low GI version of a food which I accept are equally powerful means of control.
Don't know. I don't eat grains for the same reason I don't smoke.
didie said:Those who are posting with low levels will have probably started off with high levels themselves and will have been encouraged to see others with low levels posting - well I was anyway.
For me posting is part of my reinforcement for myself to remind myself every morning that I am a diabetic and I mustn't let my guard slip. Some days they are up a bit and some days they are really low - they are fickle. I also try to be encouraging to those who post and it is genuinely a pleasure to see the levels of other posters coming down. I'm now wondering if I should post my levels here. Maybe I'll put them on my Facebook instead.
borofergie said:When I first caught the T2 diabetes, all I needed to know was that it was possible to control it. Once I knew that (by reading the success stories of others), I knew that it wasn't going to ruin my life, and that with a bit of hard work I'd (probably) be able to do the same thing.
For me this forum is abot mutual support and celebration of achievement. It doesn't matter if you get 4mmol/l every morning before breakfast, or if you've struggled to get below 10mmol/l, almost all of us will recognize your progress and give you as much encouragement to take the next step as you need.
Each of us has a pancreas that is banged up to a different extent. You can only do what you can given the state of your endocrine system. By all means take inspiration from someone who apparently has better control than you, but don't compare yourself against them or you'll be on a hiding to nothing.
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