Re: Polenta & the honeymoon

Donna <donna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: I had some plain polenta this evening and found that it didn't cause a
: major spike at an hour or two hours. So for now, it's a safe food.

: 96 pre, 129 1 hour post. 120 2 hours post.

: I'll fiddle around with 1 and 2 hour readings and get some more detailed
: levels to provide myself with some assurance that I'm doing the right
: things.


: The initial honeymoon is easing up. For the last couple days, I've had to
: remind myself that I'm eating properly because I have diabetes, not because
: I'm on a diet. After a life of "trying to lose weight," and having that as
: a constant goal, I'm having a few moments of "aw F* it" that I have to
: fight. The first couple weeks, I ate properly because I have diabetes. I am
: now eating properly because I have to remind myself I have diabetes. I know
: I'm not explaining this very well, but I'm ready for the testing and eating
: appropriately to become old hat and commonplace. Or will I have to remind
: myself every day that I have diabetes? It's almost habit now to reach for
: the meter first thing in the morning, last thing at night, and before and
: after meals. So much focus on food.

: Consider me having a frustrating moment.

: --
: ~Donna A~

Donna,

Keep at it and it will become easier. It is a change of "lifestyle" not a
diet! You are trying to find what foods and cominations of foods work for
you adn then you can do as I do, think of it as a competition with the
diabetes. I find ways to cook things I ove in a non-carby way and just
laugh at the diabetes, which though it "got me." For example, my diabetic
spaghetti dishes, like using spaghetti squash or whole string beans with
pasta sauce and browned, sliced hot Italian sausage. Really makes a
great dinner.

My husband is very accomodating, so we often have meals with no carb
course except a smlall fruit or dish of berries for dessert. He had
cookie snack that he keeps out of the kitchen and out of sight. I
actually know his hiding place, but I don't keep seeing his chocolate chip
cookies. By now this is all second nature to me and I don't find myself
fighting all the time, but early days it was hard. That's where reading
this froup daily helps, as we are all in this together and we know we are
not weird or along and after al, would you really want to feel you are
not up to our standards:-)

End of pep talk!

Wendy

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