[vvti-le]

Originally Posted by am1977

I'm sorry, I can't think of anything good about having this disease at the moment

I second that. Here in Hawaii Diabetes is an epidemic. Our kids are 25% overweight and higher than the nation's average. If this high fat, high salt fast foods don't get cut back along with inactivity(computer games & TV) we will be seeing teens and pre-teens developing T2 diabetes.

[Phranky]

Anything good about diabetes.....sheesh...about the only positive side I will say is that it has reinforced the diet I've been on for over a year.

I just got dx'd in January as tII - after spending the previous year losing 75lbs - going from 305 to about 230 now (I'm 6'4") - hoping to get healitheir.

So - now I know I'll have to be good, I've cut down my two fruit cups a day to half a cup, eating good food at the right times, and now my bs, after like 3 weeks, are between 3-7 after fasting and between 5-10 right after eating - exactly where my doc wants me to be. Just on the metformin.

I've switched to low carb beer - called Molson Sterling in Canada - actually it's a nice, dry, crisp ale and I'm getting 2.5 carbs as opposed to the 15 carbs in a normal bottle!

So - I guess one good thing would be that if you manage yourself effectively - you will be ery healthy.

Like my Dr. said - "the paradoxical thing about diabetes is that if you control it well, and are disciplined - you will be healthier and live longer than many other people, who take their health for granted."

Anyhow - it's also Friday.....

[Doetsch]

Another Perk no one mentioned.....

If the Draft is reinforced, Just show a syringe....Just show a syringe

[Lynne1]

Originally Posted by Phranky

Anything good about diabetes.....sheesh...about the only positive side I will say is that it has reinforced the diet I've been on for over a year.

I just got dx'd in January as tII - after spending the previous year losing 75lbs - going from 305 to about 230 now (I'm 6'4") - hoping to get healitheir.

So - now I know I'll have to be good, I've cut down my two fruit cups a day to half a cup, eating good food at the right times, and now my bs, after like 3 weeks, are between 3-7 after fasting and between 5-10 right after eating - exactly where my doc wants me to be. Just on the metformin.

I've switched to low carb beer - called Molson Sterling in Canada - actually it's a nice, dry, crisp ale and I'm getting 2.5 carbs as opposed to the 15 carbs in a normal bottle!

So - I guess one good thing would be that if you manage yourself effectively - you will be ery healthy.

Like my Dr. said - "the paradoxical thing about diabetes is that if you control it well, and are disciplined - you will be healthier and live longer than many other people, who take their health for granted."

Anyhow - it's also Friday.....

Cool...great weight loss and blood sugar control story. Keep up the good work!!!

[Lynpenny]

In our state I know of several times when people with diabetses were abused by cops who didn't know better. There was a vidoe of a woman getting beat up by the cops in Wichita. Now if they stop you and you say your diabetic they let you go. but then there was the guy in Liberal that they shot and killed when he was acting up.
The good thing is I'm getting healthier and losing some of this weight so maybe someday I won't be over weight.
My clothes fit better and I now shop in the misses section and not the fat ladies.
I eat to live and not live to eat.
I get to pick anything I want to eat and no one tells me what I should eat anymore.
I want to eat healthy now.

[Simon]

I forgot to add : free flu jabs (in the UK at least). In fact, I've not been ill at all since I was diagnosed.

[sydneya]

The replies are great. I have never felt so good about having diabetes.