I haven't told my anybody yet. My mother will freak, so I'm going to wait until she notices I've lost weight - hopefully, the news won't seem so bad then, since she will see that I'm doing my bit to manage the disease. My kids are just 9 and 12, so I'm not telling them, but they are on my path so they need to know. My weight loss/eating less will positively impact them, I'm sure.
So, back to my relationship with food. It still seems over. I've dropped 5 lbs since Friday, simply from lack of interest. Today, for breakfast, I made myself a whole wheat english muffin with a bit of peanut butter and fruit spread. I ate half and threw the other half away. I simply didn't want the other half, wasn't interested in it. This has never happened to me before. I wish I could enjoy it.
I started the statin drug yesterday. Today, I pick up the monitor, strips, and 2 diabetes drugs and start on the first day of the rest of my life. My goal, of course, is to manage this with diet, exercise and drugs. I can't figure out, though, why this is so much more upsetting than high cholesterol. After all, with HC, I'd be looking at having to make diet and exercise changes, and likely be on medication for a long time (possible the rest of my life). Why does the diabetes seem so different? It's the same thing - diet and exercise changes, possible lifetime medication. Although diabetes certainly has a long list of horrible by-products and possibilities, many of the them are the same heart-related ones that are connected to HC. I'm trying to think of diabetes as similar (in a life-altering way) as HC. Wish me luck.
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