Re: bad food/good food, respect

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email and doesn't delete the digest either, and then someone else replies

to that, etc.

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In general, most commercial products that 'taste good' are either

high in fat, sugar or both. It is this way because that is

the 'taste' that the market 'wants' (and maybe has been conditioned

to want...) and it is cheap and easy to produce.

So good, healthy eating does take some effort and experiment.

Diabetes does exist in different forms, and we respond differently

too. What one person says works, but not work for you. By all means

try things, but when you do keep a close eye on what it does to the

blood sugars.

Often with chronic illness, we lose some our confidence and feeling

of worth - at a point in our lives when we need it more than ever.

In order to manage our condition well, we need to work at it - and so

NEED to have a sense of value that the effort is worth expending.

How many people do things for others but not themselves ? We need to

swing the balance more towards ourselves at times - we need it.

I know there are people on the list who have family members who do

not seem to take their condition seriously. Maybe these people do not

value themselves much? Rather than try an get them to work on

managing their condition, they may first need some encouragement to

realise that it is WORTH spending the effort on themselves to do so...

OK, two points that members of my medical team have given me:

From my dietician: Diets do not make you lose weight, lifestyle

changes do.

It takes not only healthy eating but exercise and a postive attitude

to life - from this point on. We go back to our old ways and we go

back to our old weight.

From my Diabetes Educator: The odd indulgence is important.

From time to time, it is good to have the odd 'naughty' - the odd bit

of cake or whatever. It helps us with our sense of value - that we

are basicaly normal and important, which is the basic driving force

to control our condition.

Hope this helps some people,

Regards,

.

> First, I want to say that I eat all kinds of crap at times. What I

know about food and nutrition, and what I actually manage to do from

day to day are not the same, though I know I could be doing a lot

worse.

[Guest guest]

I would like to reply to this comment-----It has nothing to do with weight,

diet, exercise, insulin or any of my management issues. I want to tell you about

a really aggravating, frustrating, and kind of disappointing issue I am having

to deal with right now. I was born with a condition that I think is spelled

" Dupitrins Comptaldactily " which is a condition of the extremities that causes

the tendons to pad-up and the fingers and toes to ball (or 'fist'). In essence,

I have " hammer toe " of my right foot. I also suffer from the usual ordeals of

diabetics---the muscles lose some of their tone and the " Straightening " ability

is reduced......So I have been trying to heal a 'pin-head' sized ulcer on the

tip of my index toe for 8 weeks. It continuously calluses over and can't

drain/heal on a week to week basis......What a bummer---and I sure do miss my

walking and I keep on working, but doing very little activity at work....And we

are having, as they say, chamber of commerce weather in Western Wisconsin....By

the way--I still can't complain too loudly, as I am on my third life (cancer and

cardiac arrest survivor)....

[alldiabeticinternational] bad food/good food, respect

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 6/4/2004 9:12:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,

BIGUTE-HORT@... writes:

> I was born with a condition that I think is spelled " Dupitrins

> Comptaldactily " which is a condition of the extremities that causes the

tendons to pad-up

> and the fingers and toes to ball (or 'fist'). In essence, I have " hammer

> toe " of my right foot. I also suffer from the usual ordeals of diabetics---the

> muscles lose some of their tone and the " Straightening " ability is

> reduced......

This sounds vaguely loke Charcot Marie Tooth disease. This disease causes

the feet to curl, toes all hammer, then the foot sort of rolls on it's side, the

muscles in the lower legs just lose their ability to function and wither.

Sound similar? Mt daughter is a wound care specialist/ Shall I ask her about

healing your toe? She may have a suggestion you might want to ask your dr

about. Let me know. Hugs, Marilyn