The positive points about diabetes

Hi there,

Just wanted to state that today and yesterday I have been a lot more positive with regards to my diabetes :mrgreen: I am not sure what has pulled me through, but I have this forum to thank for to begin with :!: Everyone here has helped me loads just by listening and giving me some advice.

Ok so one positive point about it for me is that when I was young I used to eat loads of sugar as mum was always cooking puddings and buying mars bars and swiss rolls for us kids. The fact I got diabetes meant - not only did she get a flea in her ear from my dietician at the time and was forced to change our diet as a family but - I would have been fat and unhealthy now for sure :!: The fact I had diabetes meant I had to pay great attention to my diet and concentrate on exercise. Giving up all that sugar was hard going... but if I hadn't well I would have been a whale :lol: So diabetes can be a positive thing because it forces you to concentrate on eating healthily and exercising healthily so that we can live healthy lives. My family and I ended up eating a better diet due to the fact that they were warned about all the health implications of the diet we were on at the time of my diagnosis. So they ended up healthy and I ended up with a great figure I sometimes think "what would my life have been like without diabetes" and I honestly think I would have become seriously addicted to sugar, seriously fat and seriously lethargic. So that is one positive aspect of having diabetes.

Thanks Hazey. Hopefully I can keep on the positive side of things as it helps with my willpower to keep the condition under control. Also thanks onemanunit. I definitely feel as if my attitude has changed for the better. I've become more independant as had to learn to manage my own health and control my BG's. Also more strong willed because I've had to stick to diet and exercise and so feel more empowered in the way that I can stick to a routine and the outcome is feeling healthier. Also I am also more organised through careful planning of mealtimes, insulin regimes, exercise regimes etc. etc. so this might not have been the case had I not had diabetes. I also believe in the day of age we live in now it is a lot more beneficial for us diabetics because we can communicate to each other with ease i.e. this community is one very good example :mrgreen: . We have a lot of information via the web readily available to us due to thorough research and other topics. We also have a lot more advanced medicine available to us than that provided before our generation. Therefore we also live in an era which enables us to manage our diabetes better also. Chin up everyone

Well I wouldn't say I'm better at controlling it than you onemanunit. It is sometimes an uphill struggle. However I'm sitting on the crest of the hill right now :!: I just think that diabetes means that I have had to make a lot of positive changes to my diet thus enabling better health so in some ways it has been very positive for me.