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Excited to celebrate my birthday 6-yrs after diabetes diagnosis
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Oct 1, 2018 | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
@chocolate5lover, have a Happy, Happy, Birthday! I am grateful for every one the Good Lord gives me. I am 74 and have had diabetes for 2 1/2 years. I can appreciate your problem as I live in the South too and food is always a part of any celebration whether a birth or a death and everything in between. I also find that even relatives and close friends are not as tolerant if people don't eat and praise all the illegal foods. But, I have changed my eating completely to everything roasted or baked and lots of chicken and green veggies. I am lucky so far that I don't have to take any meds for my diabetes. I am just over the line and check blood twice a day and watch what I eat. At my age, I do not have an exercise routine, but cooking and housework are enough. I need to lose weight, but so far I have stayed basically the same. I have just had to accept my situation and deal with it. I do occasionally cheat but just a bite or two. One thing about living in the South we have wonderful fresh veggies and fruits---so lots of choices. Good luck and have a wonderful year!
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@retiredteacher If you have a health club, Y, or facility as part of a local hospital, you might be surprised at how many people your age and older go to exercise. I go to a health club and there are many people there in their 80s. I myself just turned 71 and go about 6 days a week -- three for water exercise, and three in the gym. Oddly I don't think of it as being for my mild diabetes but I guess it must help too.
I have had diabetes now for at least 12 years, maybe 13 or 14. I believe it was the first indication of my silent cirrhosis which the hepatologist told me I probably had for about 10 years before it was diagnosed. My A1c is good so my endo only has me checking my bg once a week, two hours after a meal, and I take no medications.
I do really miss some of the starches that I limit and of course the sweets, but I eat most meat and fish, just not fried.
If you actually do want to lose weight, I suggest using myfitnesspal.com. You keep track of EVERYTHING that you eat. It helped me enormously. I lost a lot of weight.
JK