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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 425486" data-attributes="member: 16982">Re: Need help with breaking a food addiction!I have been a comfort/compulsive eater most of my life and diabetic for half of it too. Now, I tend to veer between dieting and feasting still but ALWAYS take my insulin/ test my sugars since developing advanced retinopathy so whilst my weight may still fluctuate my hba1c does not (has been under 7 the past three years).My approach only works if you are on insulin though so can match insulin exactly to carbs, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It's just the only thing that works for me. I'll always be a feast/famine kind of eater (although my feasts are no where near as bad as they were in the bad old days). I just don't seem able to do moderate. But at least it is not affecting my bgs now.It took the real fear of complications setting in to get me to stop though. Before then I was always aware I could develop complications but it didn't really stop me, until those complications began to happen. The sad thing with diabetes is that you cant just switch the compliactions off the  minute they start, I've been in control of my diabetes/eating 3 years now and still having problems with retinopathy.</blockquote>

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