When You Were FIRST diagnosed

[Newdiabetic]

Did you even feel.....well.....kinda like you were going to become anorexic or something? I mean I know that I won't....but my cravings are definitely gone....and sometimes when it is mealtimes, the thought of food actually makes me kind of sick.

I'm thinking it's the dread of having to constantly look at my numbers...1 Hour, then 2 hours eating, thinking this number will be good and it's out the roof, having to start the day over. I haven't seen that I am getting the liver dump spike that you all speak of...So, I am thinking/wondering if skipping a meal here and there, or just waiting for the hunger to hit... if I get good numbers...isn't that what it is all about? I ate at 6:45AM...It's close to 11:45 AM and I am not hungry. Do you stop desiring food? Does it pass? Honestly, sometimes, I would just rather not eat.
Bedtime last night: 102
My fasting today:117
1 Hour after Breakfast (before gym)128
2 hours after Breakfast:(After Gym) 102
Before lunch: 120 With no desire for food.

Thanks for any responses, in advance.....and just so you know, before, I was a compulsive over-eater. I may tell you my weight someday, but that is when I have something to really be proud of like a weight under a certain amount.:eek:

Your friend
Joyce

[foxl]

Yes, it does pass. Or did, for me. In the beginning it is helpful to feel that way though -- USE it. It gives you the chance to reeducate your body and appetite.

If you feel after 6 mos of it that you still feel anorexic or otherwise eating-disordered, talk to your PCP and get a referral for counseling.

[davef]

Yes Joyce it does pass, in the beginning we can become obsessed with food and numbers. Try relax a little, give yourself time and space to adjust to your new circumstances. You can and will enjoy food. If you enjoy cooking, then this is a great time to find new recipes (or adjusting old ones) to pack in flavor and be BG friendly.

Don't overstress over this. If you have a tendency to become compulsive about things, perhaps talking to somebody about managing/coping methods would help

[jer.lawrence]

I've always loved food, I still love food. Mealtimes are still my favorite time of the day, except for lunch because I have a hard time finding something to eat for lunch. :P

I've gotten used to how most foods affect me now, so I don't even test after meals half the time. Actually, It's 2:15, and I haven't tested since fasting yesterday, I dont' think. UGH, I'm slackin' again. :)

[Granny Shanny]

The not-hungry feeling is definitely familiar to me, Joyce . . . I'm just surprised I recognize it, since I'm fairly certain that in 63 years, I never felt "not hungry" before! :D :D :D I attribute it to my metformin.

[MCS]

What can make things easier for is what I did. Just eat the foods that you know of that will not give you a spike in your BG for a while, give yourself a break on the testing and worrying. I found out that if I wasn't hunger, I didn't eat a meal of sorts. I would eat maybe a hard boiled egg and some cheese and be done. Call this a weeks vacation from D.

I usually do not get the hunger pains until BG drops into the 80's now. The hunger pains have become a good friend, they tell me I am doing something right. It will even out for you, just give it time.

[CarrieOakey]

Being diagnosed is overwhelming. You go through a lot.

[jillybean]

I had a few days of the "why me" and "it's not fair!" mentality until I decided to fight back via a bariatric surgery procedure with a 92-100% (depending on which study you read) type 2 diabetes remission rate. It was rough especially being only 25 at diagnosis, wondering if I would ever be able to safely bear children, wondering how long I could keep all my limbs, wondering if I'd be in a wheelchair by 50...I had bouts of emotional outpourings about this stuff all the way up until surgery day almost a year after diagnosis.

[beau91]

You do ,when i was diagnosed I saw a nutritionist lost 35 lbs .But i gained it back lost the weight to fast an a did comeback to my old habits .Take your time .try to find food you like that are low carbs.Skipping a meal is not usually good .Try to eat at regular times .Take smaller portions.Every body different .You have to make some different meals see what affects you most. Aniway like you said you lost some weight that s good.Bye Ricky

[krissBell]

When I was first diagnosed I decided that the hospital and doctor were stupid. I put the meter on a shelf in my closet and tried to forget about it..but after about a week I tested and I was 400...

[GeishaGirl]

Yes... but absolutely any sudden trauma makes me go kinda anorexic for 6-24 weeks. I just totally lose interest in food.

[CarrieOakey]

Skipping a meal is not usually good .

Would you believe that skipping meals for me is the same as eating a whole chocolate bar? My sugars go through the roof! And later I can't stop eating.

Definately not a good idea to skip meals. There are times that I am not very hungry or not hungry at all but I do have a little something anyway.

[yannah]

I have had alot of issues with this.

ready????

I started at dx at the drs office. ended up going to from the doctors office to the hospital. I was given insulin for 3 days. on the third day I was wicked nausteous and released form the hospital. I spent the next 3 weeks vomitting and diarrhea, couldn't even leave the house. I could not eat. no idea what happened. they did stool samples and they were clean. I think my body thought I was low, that what I think happened, and the more I didn't eat, the more I couldn't eat.

eventually I could eat again, but never really wanted to.

then I went low carb, and the first 6 weeks I was not feeling too good again. bs normalized but I was kinda sick and lightheaded.

but then I stopped wanting to eat. and I was testing all the time. and things were getting better.

don't know what was happening but i stopped wanting to eat.
I lost 70 lbs in 6 months. bs were good.

but even after a couple AC s I really didn't want to eat.

eating became a stradegy. food became a plan. I would find myself thinking "okay, I have not eaten since yesteray morning." so I would get out my raw spinanch and my peice of bacon. and my cheese stick and eat it.

it was all very wierd. I started having some wierd issues like non stop muscle twitching. I was sent to a nerologist and such. battery of tests. but my girlfriend was convinced it has something to do witheating, so I stepped up calories by adding a glass of full fat cream to a piece of fish or something.

and the twitching did go away. now still, if I do not eat a couple days the twitching comes back. quite wierd.

and I did worry I was developing a eating disorder or something.

but I have not. what has happened I think, is I am really enjoying eating as a life stradegy and not much for fun. I like the control, I like the labs. I like that food does not have a hold on me. and with the low carbing, my docotr says, comes lack of craving and hunger. so true.

now it has been a year. and I just don't think about food much. but i do not think I have an eating disorder. I just think I have to eat to live, but at the same time, food has become poisen for me, because i have diabetes. so I walk the line. but usually on fridays I do go out to dinner and order something healthy and low carb with wine and just enjoy DGF's company.

so I do have that clebration time around food. but its not the food I celebrate. its DGF. and atmosphere.

I think we all take our own look at food at diagnosis. and go on a journey about how we feel about food going forward. we all come to very different conclusions.

its a very personal thing. uz when you find out that eating is something you now have to think about carefully.... it changes many many things. cuz you are not supposed to have to think about that?

....or should everyone always think about that???

I think you will be allright. you are just realizing that food isn't what it used to be. and its a bigger chore than it was.

but thats not a bad thing. and hopefully you find a attitude towards food that works, ad you can keep. its a really spiritual thing in my opinion. finding out that eating now could actually be a bad thing. it was always true. but now its in your face.

[Moonpie]

Yes, in fact last nihgt I di not want supper, but I thought I'd best eat something. SO I went & had cheese & bread & a slice of tomato. Bread & cheese has always been a favorite of mine, & now I have just adapted it, so that we make our own microwave bread, or flax muffins & eat that instead of the sourdough bread which I previously so dearly loved. I think if you can adjust some of your favorite snacks or meals to a low carb meal, it will still be fun to snack on them. Good luck, & I also think the metformin has taken the edge off my appetite, like Granny S says, I was never not hungry in the first 53 years of my life LOL