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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 2199129" data-attributes="member: 345386">I'm not denying you feel as you do.  How could I?My other half is a retired very successful restauranteur, an excellent cook (although he was not involved in that side of his businesses) and we are both foodies.  I love my food.  He loves his food.  There is zero doubt both our lives have been impacted by my diagnosis, but right at the outset I was, and remain committed to not having it rule me, and not having it interfere with my life any more than it absolutely has to.I felt so strongly about this that I told my immediate family, my OH, and hardly anyone else.  I didn't want anyone's curiosity, labelling, judging or pitiful looks. I decided, at the outset, that I had zero wish to be tethered to a pharmacy for meds.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking meds to help treat diabetes, or anything else, but as someone who, at diagnosis took nothing, I didn't want that to change. I was also leaving the country within 3 weeks of my diagnosis, to go sailing for 9 months, taking myself 4500 miles away from my doctor and our health care system, so I accepted I best grasp the thing by the throat.My diet had never been poor.  In fact, in terms of standard dietary advice, I was a poster child, but it seemed, it hadn't worked to prevent me developing T2. My family is strewn with people living, or having lived with diabetes of all sorts, so maybe I was bound for it in any case, but one thing was sure, I wasn't wasting any time worrying out the past.When friends noticed I had modified my diet, I explained I'd had some blood tests that showed some foods weren't doing me any favours, so I was avoiding them for the time being.  Were they bothered?  Not particularly.  Did they try to dissuade me?  Yes, sometimes they would try to encourage a dessert, perhaps, but they accepted I didn't want it.  I'm sure it helped that I didn't sometimes have x or y, then sometimes pass it by.  That just, in my view, encourages further attempts to persuade.Of course there have been hard days, but there's more to life than profiteroles and those days, I accept that to live well, it makes sense to avoid certain foods.  My A1cs have been high 20s or low 30s since 2014.  I can pass an OGTT, but I am at one with myself, as I am.  It can take time, and effort to weather the tougher days.I would urge to to find some form of acceptance in all this.  Railing against your diagnosis may not, in itself, be helping your blood glucose numbers.  One of my greatest factors in my variability is stress.  I can see stress on a Libre sensor trace.  It's clear.</blockquote>

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