The world is full of type 2 diabetics and the numbers are growing more and more. We all know that - we've heard it in the news all the time. And yet, now your doctor has said it to you, now it affects you. You're sitting there thinking about all the horror stories you've heard in your life about diabetes and all of a sudden you feel so alone and so terribly scared!
First thing, guilt isn't going to get you anywhere, forget it. I'm not saying you personally did not contribute to this diagnosis, but a guilty conscience isn't going to help any now. Use this guilt though as a building block towards your future treatment and recovery plan.
Your New Basics
Next, forget all the horror stories about you can never have pizza and ice cream, a piece of cake or a cookie. Other than the fact it's not true, it's scare tactics. You don't need scare tactics right now, you need facts.
And personally, I believe the number one fact you have got to realize, and change - we all do it after all - we use food as a means of entertainment.
Food is Fuel For Our Body, nothing more, nothing less.
But no, we use it when we're depressed, when we are bored, when we are happy, when we are at a business luncheon or a party. See, all some kind or form of entertainment.
The problem though, the right foods give you good health, the wrong foods, well you just got the diagnosis. The wrong foods can actually lead to a lifetime of illness and disease. So from here on out your responsibility to yourself is just to figure out what are the right foods and use them a whole lot more often than you do the wrong foods.
Now that basic plan of action sounds good for the diabetic, doesn't it? And yes, it sounds relatively simple in words. But execution, so much "stuff" gets in the way of good intentions.
Yes, it's not easy. And yes, it is possible. For now, just remember those words. If you take nothing else away with you today - just remember, It Is Possible!
First thing, guilt isn't going to get you anywhere, forget it. I'm not saying you personally did not contribute to this diagnosis, but a guilty conscience isn't going to help any now. Use this guilt though as a building block towards your future treatment and recovery plan.
Your New Basics
Next, forget all the horror stories about you can never have pizza and ice cream, a piece of cake or a cookie. Other than the fact it's not true, it's scare tactics. You don't need scare tactics right now, you need facts.
And personally, I believe the number one fact you have got to realize, and change - we all do it after all - we use food as a means of entertainment.
Food is Fuel For Our Body, nothing more, nothing less.
But no, we use it when we're depressed, when we are bored, when we are happy, when we are at a business luncheon or a party. See, all some kind or form of entertainment.
The problem though, the right foods give you good health, the wrong foods, well you just got the diagnosis. The wrong foods can actually lead to a lifetime of illness and disease. So from here on out your responsibility to yourself is just to figure out what are the right foods and use them a whole lot more often than you do the wrong foods.
Now that basic plan of action sounds good for the diabetic, doesn't it? And yes, it sounds relatively simple in words. But execution, so much "stuff" gets in the way of good intentions.
- our emotions (happy, sad, bored)
- our eyes (boy, doesn't that look good)
- our lack of knowledge about the basics of nutrition
- our location (stand inside of a working bakery and the sights, the sounds and the smells - see what your mind wants to do then)
Yes, it's not easy. And yes, it is possible. For now, just remember those words. If you take nothing else away with you today - just remember, It Is Possible!
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