So Yep - I've Been On A Diet Since One Was 8.

My dad used to brand fun of the give-and-take diet. Anytime someone would say: I’m on diet, 

my begetter would reply: Diet? What color are yous going to dye it?

Yeah, he was a funny guy. I miss him.

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About half dozen weeks earlier I went on my starting fourth dimension diabetes diet. 

A twelvemonth or ii afterward my diagnoses - Still on a diet.
Also: GO USA

Technically, I’ve been on a diet since I was 8. 

Yes, I was an extremely nether weight 8 twelvemonth quondam who downed 2500 to 3000 calories a twenty-four hours on Dr. prescribed diet to gain weight afterward my type 1 diabetes DX & I literally cried from having to consume thus much.

And ever since then, I’ve been on i cast of roughly other of the “many incarnations of diabetes diet." 

I grew upward counting diabetes exchanges as well as downing artificial sweeteners that caused havoc amongst my gastrointestinal organization because I wasn't allowed regularly sweetened things -  And I graduated to insulin sliding scales as well as counting carbs. 

I've dabbled inwards both vegetarianism as well as the paleo diets - And snuck a lot of forbidden nutrient in-between . 

I’ve questioned and dared to consume a peach & receive got developed my part of nutrient idiosyncrasies over the years.
During my diabetes life timem there's been a never ending assessment as well as diabetes math equation when it comes to the nutrient that goes inwards my trunk - And that's turned me into a Diabetes Savant - And I bet the same goes for yous if you're reading this postal service as well as alive amongst diabetes!

I loathe the give-and-take diet as well as what it agency to living amongst diabetes. 
I loathe that the give-and-take diet has made me experience less than acceptable, less attractive as well as less confident  - And diabetes or not, no i should allow give-and-take rob them of their value,  self worth & self esteem.

I don’t role the give-and-take diet anymore - I'm done amongst the d give-and-take - I notice it destructive & counter productive -  At to the lowest degree for me. 

Instead I but seek as well as brand wiser choices when it comes nutrient - Nothing is off limits - except for liver as well as gizzards - but that’s a personal alternative because I call back liver as well as gizzards are disgusting.

Recently a friend mentioned to me  that I should seek as well as remain amongst inwards the caloric intake of the diabetes diet. 

And I literally said: WTF, girl! Your Diabetes May Vary  - And my caloric requirements are unlike than yours as well as hers as well as his. 

Diabetes caloric intake isn’t i size fits all - There’s trunk type, action levels as well as trunk idiosyncrasies.. And it's to a greater extent than virtually counting carbs, testing blood sugars, accurate insulin/carb ratios to accurately bolus, non but virtually calories.

I've been on an effing diet since I was 8 - And I’m sick that give-and-take as well as what it means. 

And here’s the Ironical thing:  When my blood sugars are tight, sometimes I weigh slightly to a greater extent than because I receive got to a greater extent than lows to process - And when my type i diabetes runs on the high side, I l tend to drib weight as well as people tell me how non bad I look.

Do yous encounter how effed upward that is? 

It’s a fragile remainder as well as I’m ever teetering on the border of either scale - pun totally intended.

Same goes for people living amongst type 2 - They are ever perceived every bit fatty as well as over weight, as well as that’s non ever the illustration - But people guess them none the less. 

And if they exercise receive got lose weight - Why exercise nosotros ridicule them as well as and telephone squall upward them names? That's non correct either. 

Dieting as well as weight as well as is never ending when yous alive amongst diabetes - And regardless of the type. So please, convey upward calories to me - Calories = the give-and-take diet to me - And I’m over that word!

And kudos to my friend, because she got  where I was coming from and  totally understood what I was proverb as well as nosotros changed the subject.  

But the comment nevertheless rubbed me the incorrect way  -  Primarily because afterward almost 36 years of  diabetes diets inwards all dimensions, I'm done amongst dieting.  I'm all virtually choices - As inwards wise ones when it comes to nutrient as well as blood sugars as well as carb counting - In my wise choices include treats every straightaway as well as and thus - Because flexibility inwards the bolus worthy process category makes eating well for yous much easier :)