I am working so hard with myself to get my ducks in a row again. Daily exercise, more greens on my plate than yellow, healthier eating habits, taking my meds as prescribed, and using my meter, not letting it take up space in my purse.
Of all those things, the hardest (which should be the easiest) is the eating part. I hate to cook. I hate to cook the same things over and over and over again. So I have grown to skip meals, eat out, or just eat whatever comes to mind. I can do all the others. Taking my meds, is a breeze, they are measured out for me once a week, and I take them like clockwork. The meds are on the counter next to my meter, so it is used before I take my meds, granted I could do it more than 4 times a day, but that’s overkill right now. I love to swim, so it kills me not to get there…besides I paid for that, and I am going to use it. But the food part is what is bringing me to my diabetic knees.
I’ll get it, I know I will…just needed to admit it.
So what’s the hardest part for you? Share it, get if off your chest, quit feeling guilty for it. and maybe we can help each other make some changes.
Mine would be exercise. LOL! Not good at it.
Cathy,
toughest part for me is constantly having to give myself insulin throughout the day. I’m hoping this will change with the omnipod soon. I eat ALL day! I mean, I am constantly snacking, grazing, and eating throughout the day with the amount of energy I burn working out, running, or playing soccer. I’ll eat and by the time I check (2 hrs later), I’m hungry again! So, I’m having to check around 10 times a day and just carefully watch my BG’s and make sure they don’t swing due to what I eat and exercise. Pain in the ■■■.
For me the two hardest things are the eating and the exercise.
For the eating; I hate going out to get what I need to make something for it is usually packaged for families of 4. I love ground beef(Extra Lean) for making Hamburgers(love homamade burgers) but I don’t like freezing things or having leftovers, I like fresh. The packaging of ground anything is too much for a single person to use all at once without over eating. And bread, bread is my downfall. I love bread, the hardest thing for me to do is not eat bread. I can go a day or two without but then I crave it. Once I made it a week without then I caved and eat so much I thought I was in bread heaven. lol.
Now the exercise, I should be better at this but I’m not. I do it for a while then I stop and go back into my laziness of sitting in front of the computer and playing mmo’s(Massive Multi-players online games). My game of choice right now is City of Heroes, And I would rather play then for four hours then exercise for 20 mins. lol.
It’s painful to write it out here, but it is the truth.
I know EXACTLY what ya mean!!!
The hardest part for me is when I think about having it for the REST of my life! It’s not going to go away it’s not going to ever end. I try to look at it positively and think about how healthy I am for eating correctly and exercising several times a day even when I don’t feel like it. You don’t get a “vacation” from diabetes, and with being diet/exercise only controlled I don’t get a cheat day. I find it challenging but I work at it 24 hours a day. I’d rather go without carbs/sugar and the good stuff than later go on dialysis 
The hardest part is just never being able to take a day off…
The hardest part is just never being able to take a day off… I want a vacation 
The hardest part would definitely be exercise. It’s so hard to get motivated after a long day at work.
Man, I can relate. MMOs are a lifesucking timesink that really sent my control into a tailspin. I started with EQ through SoL and most recently played a couple of months of Aion. Played just about every MMO in between.
But the food part is what is bringing me to my diabetic knees.
If you mean not getting the Right I:CR, or Tot Carbs and going High 2-3 hrs afterwards? Ditto
and even If you did get the Right Tot. Carbs and Total Bolus and it Still Spikes , drives me nuts…
espeically if having a Good ( 80-100 ave) day going…
And at least 1 evening a Week, my Aft Dinner Spikes adn after 2 CB’s, it still is High B4 Bedtime
Requiring me to set the Alarm, wake up in 3 hrs to be ready to take another CB.
Apparently, Either the Liver doesn’t want to co-operate or The Insulin Pen isn’t working 100% or ?
Getting Tired of going the Process of Elimination to find out the why?
Sarah? Have you ever tried just taking your Long Lasting and Eating all but a ‘0’ carb day?
not needing any Bolus shots?
It’s about as Close to a ‘Vacation’ as I ever got…
Totally agree w/Alan!
Totally agree w/Alan!
I guess I asked the right question, this is where I find out I’m not the ONLY person who has a tough time with one or all of the components of diabetes. But, it could be worse, think about it.
Same with me…Consistent and regular exercise.
I always find excuses…procrastinate, blame the weather, no time, schedule conflict, previous engagements, blah, blah, blah often times it’s just me being lazy …LOL
The hardest part for me is not being able to go out to eat and enjoy it anymore. I feel pretty confident and in control when I cook at home, but when I eat out all bets are off. I live in the SF Bay Area- GREAT restaurants! Many ethnic varieties. I LOVE that stuff. It was once my greatest pleasure. Now, it’s more trouble than it’s worth, finding something I can eat, deciding when to bolus and then being anxious till the food comes. Etc.
I also hate HAVING to be so much in control. Control has always been an issue for me. (Family background, you know how it can be) When I was much younger I rebelled and was completely out of control. Then I got too controlled to compensate. Finally I found a balance and could relax and be confident that with a bit of planning, things would work out. I have 16 years recovery from an eating disorder (control again) and what I learned in short was to eat healthy, enjoy my food, eat three meals a day, except for sugar to eat whatever I liked.Yeah, right! LOL
ZOE, I can relate. In the area I live, we go out for coffee or lunches often with friends. No one entertains at home, it’s too much work. So we go out. While other are ordering dessert or whatever, I am trying to decide what I am going to do to make up for that thin bite of pie. It does take some of the enjoyment out of going out.
BUT, I decided that I wasn’t going out to eat, I was going out to enjoy the people and the conversation and company. It wasn’t about the food, although that was part of it. That’s where my friends come in as support people, they know I am diabetic, so they don’t pick places where they know there will be Nothing on he menu for me to chose from, and if it’s other than these people, I try to ask for what I want, and to only eat half of what I ordered, that has seemed to help. I am a type II, and so that part might be a little easier for me.
Control is an issue for me, also. Being an abuse survivor, I do have to be in control of situations and myself. I make that a priority. With docs, with situations, with life in general, I have to know what is going on, and why. I just make that my business. It helps to me know that I am in control of what I eat, if I take my meds, if I exercise, if I lose weight, etc. I am in control of many things. Whether I buy and eat that bag of M&M’s, no one is going to come and swipe it out of my hands, no one is going to arrest me, but I will also have to be in control of the consequences…which I don’t always like. Best to you.
I don’t feel like any part of what I am doing is hard, I just don’t always take great joy doing it. I have no problem with the eating part, since I like to cook. But I don’t always like to do exercise. I’m capable of being quite grouchy about having to do it. By part the way into the exercise I’m usually glad to be doing it. I’m trying to expand my repertoire by working out with my friends, doing some different classes, exercising at different times of day, etc. so it doesn’t feel like such a rut.
Good idea, FRances, sometimes working out with friends keeps us on track, cause they are depending on us to be there. My friends are not swimmers, or are not dependable to count on for me. I love the solitude of just me and the water…I used to bike before leaving my clinic for greener pastures, and I liked doing that alone too. I need that quiet time to myself. Keep it up, my friend, although I don’t know that it gets easier, it does make healthy look better.