Well, I'm beginning to understand why there are cautions for people learning how to manage diabetes that it can get a bit overwhelming from time to time. And it's not testing the glucose levels which is getting me down, so much as the enormity of trying to reorient my way of thinking about food.
I have to keep track of what are good carbs and what are not. What kind of starchy vegetables work fine for me and those which cause a glucose spike. Monitoring what I eat 24-7 with a kind of obsessiveness which gets exhausting (especially when on a 16 day book tour. That was a challenge).
Honestly, walking the grocery aisle can be like running a gauntlet. There is refined sugar everywhere and in much of the food (frozen-prepared-bread) which I took for granted.I suppose it doesn't help to have candy everywhere as a main feature from October to January (and then Easter in the Spring).
Not a lot of fun for an admitted sugar addict. Cold turkey pretty much sucks. Thank goodness there are sugar-free options when my sweet tooth really acts up or everyone around me is indulging in a milkshake or something.
Ah well. It is what it is. "Death by chocolate" is a great idea when contemplating dessert, but when it becomes a potential reality in your life (ala diabetes) the whole idea changes your perspective a bit.
Being healthy is what really matters.
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