Obsessed with food and numbers.

Hi fairylights

I'm type 2 on diet only and can say for certain for me YES it got easier.

Once you know for sure how different foods affect you, you can and will start to relax and only test new foods, even then you will have a good idea what the reading will be. With you being LADA you may not relax as much as I have been able to.

It's understandable to want to absorb as much info about your condition as you can,

Mary x

fairylights said:

Does this get any easier - do you become less obsessed as you get more used to living with diabetes?

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Yes it does get easier!

Maybe already now you can keep a list of safe foods?

If that is so, have a day or two a week where you eat only those and call that your days off from experimenting, reading and investigating apart from the bits you have to do. (Testing around meals and if something is off, but not like it was a religion, y'knowhatImean...)

Should take the pressure off it a bit and you have the other 5 days to 'work' in.

You can always react to any off readings you're getting even on an 'off' day, but if all is well, don't fuss - just stick to what you know already is good for you.

It's a bit of to and fro to learn, implement, learn some more, implement...

Above method should be relatively safe, if you know your safe foods... And then don't go all google-mania on those days. Brain needs a bit of time to adjust also

Hi, your post heading caught my eye!! I have been dx for 18m now, type 1. I was and still am obsessed with food and numbers, it seems my whole life revolves around food. I am on MDI and lantus and have to inject for every mouthful I eat. It seems sometimes I just want to run away from it all and stuff my face with whatever! but I know I can't, so I plod on, thankful, really , that they found out what was wrong with me and that I am still able to lead a relatively good style of living, barring all that I love in the form of cakes and sweets, but! hey! I'm not blind, disabled, deaf or any of those really sad things that some poor souls have to endure. so I think myself lucky in some respects and just eat sensibly, cut down on carbs whenever I can and want to, keep my numbers withing range if at all possible and get all the tests I am offered and bear in mind that everyone is different, and what goes for one doesn't always suit another. find your best level and experiment with different foods, and try not to (says the pot calling the kettle black!) worry. and good luck to you on your journey through it all. X