a little revelation

[Guest guest]

Hi, y'all

First, thanks to all who post recipes/food ideas. They're very

helpful. and thanks to all who answered my question.

So I've been mulling this all over and the other day, I had a little

revelation of sorts, and way to look at things that makes me less

angry and fearful, and a little stronger and more hopeful, so I

thought I'd share it.

I'd been thinking about diabetes as a disease -- like all diseases I

have a mental image of a kind of monster with a will, a life of its

own. But the other day, I thought, what if this diabetes is just

the body's way of letting me know what it needs and what it doesn't

need? Not a disease out to get me, but a guide that will let my

body do its thing. As I get older, there's clearly certain things

my body can't handle -- Mc's gives me heartburn, dairy

products make me... well, you know. Which means my body can't

handle what's in them very well, so it's telling me to do something

different. For dairy products there's lactaid, for Mcs

there's...whatever. So now my body doesn't handle sugars very

well. Okay, so give it what it can handle. If it do that, it'll be

good to me.

I don't know if this'll make sense to anyone else, but it's helpful

to me. It let's me think of my body as a partner, not the enemy.

vicky