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I am slowly but surely becoming a unmotivated, uncaring, impatient, fed-up, ANGRY, and mostly LAZY diabtic.

I don’t know why. I brush of checking my sugar before a meal like it’s nothing, I’ll usually end up checking it only twice or so a day instead of the 4+ times I’m supposed to.

UGH. I’ve only been doing this for a little shy of six months, and already I’m developing this mindset.

It’s horrible. I feel like I should care a lot more about this than I do, make better choices regarding what I eat and when. But, NAH. I am SO EFFING LAZY.

:frowning:

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not the only one!

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yeah. you’re definitely not alone.
The entire situation sucks. but be careful.
if you need support, let me know.

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start with the testing. before you eat. It’s a number, and not a score on how good a person you are. Think of a reward you will give yourself if you do test the 4 times a day. and please come here to TuD more often. I remember trying those yummy sugarfree creamsickles after you had mentioned them this past summer. Thanks again - I think I’ll buy another box of those this week.

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I have had bouts of this sort of behavior,too, thinking “my diabetes is not as bad as some others out there, I can ease up/ slack off / etc/ eat what I want, my BG doesn’t go that high compared to some …” Usually I start to feel kinda low grade crummy after a while and I DO know the cause of it all and try to get back on the testing routine wagon.

You just gotta make a routine of it all. Compared to when my kids ( youngest now in college) were younger my moning routine is much easier, even with the testing…

Up at 6:30,brush teeth, go downstairs, wash coffee pot, wash cat dishes, start coffee, feed cats, feed frogs in aquariums( long story), feed pet mouse in cage on top of refrigerator ( longer story), bring in newspapers, pour cheerios, pour coffee… OK, everbody has food… find reading glasses ( oh yeah, they are on my head) , test BG, eat breakfast, take meds and vitiamins, finish reading paper, test BG , go upstairs to exercise, shower, dress, find cell phone/ PDA, find glassses again,( left them on kitchen table) , go downstairs to office or out to a construction site ( I’m an architect).

I keep my vitamins, testing supplies etc together on my nightstand and take them all together downstairs for breakfast and keep them in my jacket pocket the rest of the day. The weight of them in the pocket reminds me to test before and after meals. I usually skip the lunch testing since I tend to eat the same things everyday for lunch but do test after dinner and before bed, since that tells me if I need a snack before sleep. I put the supplies back on the nightstand so that I rememeber to start the routine over again the next day.

When I am on track, I’m better with my testing than with remembering where my reading glasses and cell phone are.
Now if sombody would just make a BG meter built into my Palm Treo smart phone, it would be one less thing to keep track of, if there was a clip for the reading glasses it would be even better…

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When I read this I had to do a double look, I thought I had written it.

Since June08 is when I got my news, since then I did the good girl route, then fell off eaisly. I had every reason, mainly- 2 under 2, full time job, hubby (aka thrid child at times) 2 dogs, 2 fish, 2 hamsters, just soo much going on I couldn’t possibly have time for all of this. That is until I realized I was starting to go to bed earlier and earlier and feeling worse and worse. Then the ah ha momement hit me, Im not hurtting/lying/cheating anyone but me.
Then I had another thought, it is hurting others. My relationship with my husband was at steak, he was so angry and I didn’t get it.

He couldn’t help me, especially if I was going to be a bratty kid and say “you can’t make me”, and then prove it.
I don’t not test for any other reason than, I don’t want this. Maybe it’ll “clear” up on its own. Im healthy in everyother aspect, why me?! I could go on and on.

In the end, who wants to be tired all the time, can’t see, grumpy etc…

Im the one shaving time off my life by not taking care of myself.

Its difficult, but Im working on changing that mindset.

Please know your not the only “bad one” out there, be easy on your self. Think of it this way:its a new month, get to work on thoes tests, it will make you feel better in the long run!

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BRITTANY! I’ve been doing this too. It’s awful. And when you sit there in the doctors and try to explain why you’re doing it, but you can’t because you don’t want to hear yourself describe is as “lazy”…ouf. that’s the worst thing ever. :
my endo came up with the conclusion that i’m trying to SABOTAGE myself, which just made me cry…how could he think that? i hate him.

so my parents forced me to visit a phyciatrist/ former endo, and he’s helping me out on changing my mindset. (:

the end.

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Same here, i got the mind set of oh I’ve had diabetes for 16 years i can guess what my sugar is. Well just say im not so good at guessing. I can tell low or high or normal but those are big ranges. It good to know that im not the only lazy one out there. Granted it isn’t good at all.