I know I used to eat that way, and I LOVE those foods, but you start to see the effects on your health. I kept gaining weight, and I fought with my blood sugar.
I only ate really badly for a few years, when I was first with my now husband. He was making good money and we ate out all the time. When we moved to our now acreage, our eating improved because we would have to drive to town to eat out, so we ate at home more, and I had already really cut back on soda and was trying to eat better when we ate out. Still just too much food though, and too much sugar in the form of pasta mostly, and my husband liked to have desserts around. Like ice cream. I also ate lots of yogurt because I thought it was healthy, but it had tons of sugar in it too.
My weight was still a problem, as was my blood sugar.
I honestly thought I was eating okay, but something really clicked in my head when a friend of mine talked about cutting carbs. What's weird, is that I must have heard that a hundred times from other places, about cutting sugar/carbs, and I always thought it was insane because I grew up with fat being the problem. For some reason, this time it sunk in.
I started reading about how going low carb was about the only real way to end blood sugar problems. I had always been told that you could eat carbs if they were balanced with protein, but I kept having issues.
I've drastically changed how I eat, and it had a HUGE impact on my blood sugar fluctuations. I find that my energy levels are better, and I rarely experience low blood sugar.
Looking back now, I can't believe what I used to eat and thought it was okay. It wasn't easy to give up all that garbage, but I was terrified of the effects of diabetes, which I think I was well on my way to developing. The hardest thing was eating out. The next hardest thing was to figure out what to buy at the store. I had to learn where those foods were, and I literally walk into an aisle, and there's the one item I can eat out of that whole aisle sometimes. I've almost stopped seeing all the food I can't eat anymore, like it doesn't exist.
Surely doctors must tell people with diabetes about this?
I only ate really badly for a few years, when I was first with my now husband. He was making good money and we ate out all the time. When we moved to our now acreage, our eating improved because we would have to drive to town to eat out, so we ate at home more, and I had already really cut back on soda and was trying to eat better when we ate out. Still just too much food though, and too much sugar in the form of pasta mostly, and my husband liked to have desserts around. Like ice cream. I also ate lots of yogurt because I thought it was healthy, but it had tons of sugar in it too.
My weight was still a problem, as was my blood sugar.
I honestly thought I was eating okay, but something really clicked in my head when a friend of mine talked about cutting carbs. What's weird, is that I must have heard that a hundred times from other places, about cutting sugar/carbs, and I always thought it was insane because I grew up with fat being the problem. For some reason, this time it sunk in.
I started reading about how going low carb was about the only real way to end blood sugar problems. I had always been told that you could eat carbs if they were balanced with protein, but I kept having issues.
I've drastically changed how I eat, and it had a HUGE impact on my blood sugar fluctuations. I find that my energy levels are better, and I rarely experience low blood sugar.
Looking back now, I can't believe what I used to eat and thought it was okay. It wasn't easy to give up all that garbage, but I was terrified of the effects of diabetes, which I think I was well on my way to developing. The hardest thing was eating out. The next hardest thing was to figure out what to buy at the store. I had to learn where those foods were, and I literally walk into an aisle, and there's the one item I can eat out of that whole aisle sometimes. I've almost stopped seeing all the food I can't eat anymore, like it doesn't exist.
Surely doctors must tell people with diabetes about this?
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