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Originally Posted by ma6791
Any suggestions/advice on how you make yourself stick to your good eating ways?
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I know that I have to do this to live, in my case. I have been counting carbs for more years than I like to admit. I have a son who is T1, since the age of 10, and that was 24 years ago. I originally learned to count carbs and calculate bolus insulin dosage for him.
About 20 years ago, while working out of town, I began to have some serious health problems and I knew it. I called my doctor, who is a friend that I grew up with, and told him that I needed to see him ASAP. He called lab orders in to a local hospital and I had the lab work done and faxed to him. When I got home for the weekend he was at my house early Saturday morning saying that "we had to do something and we had to do it right now". At this point most of my numbers were off the chart, my thyroid had quit, I had hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
Fast forward to today; the T2 meds no longer work for me and I am now classified as a T1.5 (insulin dependent). Trust me when I say that I have seen first hand what not taking care of yourself brings. I am much healthier and better off today.
T2 is basically a lifestyle change for the better, we just have to accept it and move forward for those that we love. You can do it! Good luck!