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What do you like most about being a diabetic???

I guess the fact that everything is closely monitored at the hospital eg: b/p, cholesterol, thyroid etc - peace of mind. O and being able to eat a few sweets after a hypo!!!!! :-)
 
Certainly having regular check-ups for things like cholesterol and bp has to be a plus. Also eating a healthy diet and exercising is a bonus too, if not for diabetes I'm not too sure what my diet would be like or fitness levels, if anything diabetes does make you take better care of yourself......... although I'm sure we all would agree we would rather be without it :)
 
Hi good things about being dietbetic is ..... You can have your own break n telling your workmate that i got to eat n drink due am dietbetic n they let you n even my boss too also enjoy visiting dietbetic clinic,also i do feel special for being dietbetic!as have been for 38years,am 44 now.

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This forum and all the fab people with whom I have come in contact. Weight loss. Good quality food. Going into marks and Spencer's, trying on a skirt which was a size smaller than I was at the end of January and finding that it was.....too big! Getting on the scales this morning and seeing that my weight loss has resumed after a small plateau and that I have lost 2lbs. Working out that if I lose 2lbs a week for the next 5 weeks I'll have lost 2 stone since January 28th! All the new recipes!
 
Finding that although my lack of faith in the medical profession has been confirmed (again), my faith in humanity has been boosted by the advice, support and kindness of the people on this site. Cheers guys.
 
Best thing about being diabetic? NOT getting gout anymore. It started when I was only 19 and didn't know what the hell it was. Just sheer agony. Imagine having your big toe smashed with a sledgehammer - then double that pain.
 
Yep a big kick in the backside for me, made me take stock of my life.

For the first time I am in control of my eating, in control of my life. I call the shots on how I spend my day now. I have lost a lot of weight, I feel absolutely fantastic for the first time in my life. I can wear clothes I have found at the bottom of my 'I can't wear that it's too small' drawer and lo and behold...it fits me! I can cut my toenails cuz I can not only see them, I can REACH them too. The steering wheel doesn't squeak around my fat tummy any more and if all this sounds like it's a comment on losing weight I can truthfully say I would NOT be in this position if I hadn't been diagnosed with this horrible disease. Every time I find myself wishing I didn't have it, I remind myself that it is controllable..I can do something about it unlike all those people out there who find they have a disease that is totally uncontrollable. So.....yahoo! and ya boo sucks to diabetes. You ain't gonna beat me so there! :p
 
Before I became ill, I was eating healthily, exercising regularly and weighed the same as I did 20 years ago.

My diet went to pot between onset and diagnosis as I was eating everything in sight, otherwise nothing changed.

Now I'm back to eating healthily, execising regularly and weighing the same as I did 20 years ago, minus a functioning pancreas and with the ever present risks associated with that.

Now I don't even get the pleasure of the occaisional cigar I used to enjoy.

The only benefit, I have an excuse for not eating potatoes or rice if I don't feel like it.
 
Yes free prescription as well,never thought of that,lol

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Indiana91 said:
Using it as an excuse not to do things.
My mates play a lot of drinking games and things, I play the diabetes card to get out of doing dirty shots and things :)

Indiana x


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Ha ha, I have to laugh at this... I do a bit of work in Germany.. Socialising afterwards I get the obligatory offer of can I get you a beer? (German accent.) it's the culture I deal with... I'm quite happy to have a drink with the guy. Just want to lay off the booze. So I'll reply by saying "I'll have a "coke light please," Then I cringe & wait for the same remark that drowns out the heavy metal band playing in the background....
"A COKE LIGHT??! ARE YOU GAYYYY!!???"

I'd rather admit falsely to being gay than explain Diabetes control while Satans Love Beast are banging out a bad cover of see you in hell to a ****** up German...
 
Haha! I drive a lot too, I live about six doors down from my local but I will still drive so I don't have to drink!!
I don't mind having one or two now and again but every weekend we go out and drink from about 7pm to 12am and that's too much for me!
I do love my car haha!

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Indiana91 said:
Haha! I drive a lot too, I live about six doors down from my local but I will still drive so I don't have to drink!!
I don't mind having one or two now and again but every weekend we go out and drink from about 7pm to 12am and that's too much for me!
I do love my car haha!

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Driving? Yep, I'm rather fond of my wagon too! Another reason to stay straight..
I've done a gig in Switzerland had about 3 hours sleep then belted up to Belgium for another festival..

Don't get me wrong.. I'm not "straight edge". But there is "a time & a place for cuppa soup.!"

J>
 
There certainly is!
I'd prefer a cup of tea over a glass of wine most times!

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I'm a coffee person... Tea for me tastes like liquid halitosis..? Lol
 
You have now put me off tea ;)

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seeing the weight coming of and new clothes :) my confidence has risen alot since i was diagnosed
 
Indiana91 said:
You have now put me off tea ;)

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Far be it from me to put you off tea.. My disagreement to this beverage came from the leverage of pregnancy.
My sisters & I all dislike the leaf type brew, due to a 9 month term where our mum learned that tea was repulsive.
Making elusive my siblings spurned taste & conducive to ad haste we can't stand the smell or digest it.
 
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