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<blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 1091695" data-attributes="member: 93179"><p>Well, I don't actually consider diabetes either a blessing or a curse, but on a positive note, I can now happily eat all the healthy and full fat foods (cream, yoghurt, cheese...) that I've eaten all my life without people insisting for the last 40 odd years that I had an unhealthy diet and should be eating low fat **** instead. And I've finally escaped from feeling like a brain dead zombie for the previous 5-6 years pre-diagnosis, and have spent my 2 diabetic years feeling alert and human again. (I'm also thankful that suffering from chronic migraines all my adult life had already taught me that some foods could adversely affect my health so watching my diet and cutting right down on diabetic unfriendly carbs was not only logical but much easier than it might have otherwise been.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />)</p><p></p><p>On the negative side, it's expensive self funding glucose testing and buying extra low carb alternative foods on my pension, and I occasionally resent the fact that I should no longer eat some of the food (mainly fruit) that I used to enjoy - this last a minor inconvenience though.</p><p></p><p>Robbity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robbity, post: 1091695, member: 93179"] Well, I don't actually consider diabetes either a blessing or a curse, but on a positive note, I can now happily eat all the healthy and full fat foods (cream, yoghurt, cheese...) that I've eaten all my life without people insisting for the last 40 odd years that I had an unhealthy diet and should be eating low fat **** instead. And I've finally escaped from feeling like a brain dead zombie for the previous 5-6 years pre-diagnosis, and have spent my 2 diabetic years feeling alert and human again. (I'm also thankful that suffering from chronic migraines all my adult life had already taught me that some foods could adversely affect my health so watching my diet and cutting right down on diabetic unfriendly carbs was not only logical but much easier than it might have otherwise been.:D) On the negative side, it's expensive self funding glucose testing and buying extra low carb alternative foods on my pension, and I occasionally resent the fact that I should no longer eat some of the food (mainly fruit) that I used to enjoy - this last a minor inconvenience though. Robbity [/QUOTE]
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