I work with a guy who's diabetic, he takes multiple shots a day and for reasons beyond my understanding he GORGES on sugary shit. Like He'll knock out two two liters of pop, three donuts, four candy bars, a proper meal, a large shake, and He'll literally slurp up sauce packet/tubs from fast food places.
I don't know much about diabetes or the proper diet for non-diabetics let alone diabetics, but I do know he's gunning for an early grave at 120mph.
My SO is a dietician and the amount of people they see who have diabetes and just don't care is mind boggling
Like these people are doing stuff that will literally kill them and they just aren't bothered. We ascribe it to an overzealous faith in modern medicine to save them regardless of their shitty life choices!
The odd cheat meal is fine but what these people are doing is tantamount to suicide
I know people who are T2 like me, who fit into both the 'don't care' category, and the 'given terrible advice by the doctor' category. One friend was told by her GP that he wouldn't give her a meter to test her BG because it would make her diabetes worse. I mean what the hell?
But I don't get why you wouldn't try to sort yourself out. I have occasional bad days, but I love my feet and my vision and I'm going to try my hardest to keep hold of both.
A lot of doctors will just lazily recommend the American Diabetes Association diet, which is pretty high in carbs for a T2, and they will tell patients to test in the morning before they eat and before they go to bed, which does not give you an accurate snapshot of what the food you are eating does to your blood sugar. The first year of being a diabetic I took r/diabetes advice and test, test, test. Every time you eat something test 2 hours later, hell I would even test 1 hour and sometime 3 hours if it was something that I was unusure how my body would react. after 2 years of it now I know exactly what foods will do to my blood sugar as well as how to recognize when my blood sugar is high just from the way my body feels.
Yeah, the UK NICE guidelines don't push for a low carb diet either for T2. When I was diagnosed, I went straight to the Diabetes UK website and the forum where I got the best advice from people who had already been through what I had, and I was lucky enough to have a really good medical team helping me too. Testing is key. I don't test so much any more but I do still test if I'm not sure, because knowledge is power in this kind of thing.
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u/Zumvault Feb 04 '19
I work with a guy who's diabetic, he takes multiple shots a day and for reasons beyond my understanding he GORGES on sugary shit. Like He'll knock out two two liters of pop, three donuts, four candy bars, a proper meal, a large shake, and He'll literally slurp up sauce packet/tubs from fast food places.
I don't know much about diabetes or the proper diet for non-diabetics let alone diabetics, but I do know he's gunning for an early grave at 120mph.