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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Winnie-the-Pooh" data-source="post: 2199094" data-attributes="member: 517728">I have a Dexcom G6. Even boring edamame pasta caused a spike , sadly . It’s not about pasta , or pizza , or croissant or cream puffs. It is about having the physical ability to eat what you like , when you like . I have always eaten very little , and very healthy and very well . But I had the freedom to eat what I liked without health consequences. Now I don’t . It’s lost . For some ppl , food is just about getting nutritions they need a healthy and enjoyable way . For me , food is a very important and essential part of my happiness and I allow myself to be very hard to please when it comes to food and I plan to keep it that way. So going to a restaurant and “just finding what I can eat “ won’t work for me . I need to go to a restaurant and “choose anything I want to eat, at that given time ,  without health consequences”. It’s as simple as that . An analogy is about perfume . For many ppl , as long as they smell good , they are happy . For me , I need to have tens of perfumes to choose the one that matches best for my mood in that particular time . If I fancy a perfume with hints of plume , having a perfume with hints of citrus won’t do ! As diabetic patient , we are conditioned to feel apologetic for wanting what is not healthy for us . I don’t feel apologetic or pretend that I enjoy all the boring food I eat to stay healthy . Of course , my priority is my health and I won’t jeopardize it with a bad diet . But I don’t fool myself that an important aspect of my life is lost , forever . A chocolate truffle tastes better than a zucchini. It is what it is. Healthy ppl get the truffle , and we get the zucchini. That is a sad fact . But I like to focus on its factuality than sadness . We have to allow ourselves to wish for things even if we cannot have them, right now . I believe it is very important to be vocal about it because medicine has to find a better to manage diabetes than diet. We have a right to live normally , eat normally and don’t count our carbs . And we have to advocate for better treatments. The least we have to expect from medicine is to put its act together and give us a normal life, rather than putting us on diet ! I love and wish what I cannot eat and hate what I can eat !! And I’m not ashamed of it and the least I can do is to say it loud . I love cream puffs. Simple [emoji846]</blockquote>

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