[Diabetes-Talk] Not eating enough, or eating properly

[Diana Cook]

 Can’t remember if you said you don’t eat peanut butter or not. One of my favorite breakfast is toast with almond butter and 1/2 banana sliced on top. Can you keep a couple of non-perishable snacks upstairs?  My son does most of the cooking and doesn’t quite understand my concern with what I eat but he is trying! I struggle at times too! Diana cook

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> On Feb 15, 2021, at 23:03, Terri Stimmel via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I hope that you all are doing well. And are staying safe.
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> First of all, I just want to say thank you to all of you who offer me advice, and encouragement. It has been so very bennificial. It has also really meant a lot to me. You all offer me a lot of support, and I really appreciate it.
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> I am still struggling. I am really trying hard. But this is definitely rough! Much more than I ever thought it would be.
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> Who knew eating well was such a chore. I think there has always been a part of me that felt it was tough. But until you really commit to trying to do this pretty much all of the time, it doesn't really click.
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> I am struggling to cook. I am the person who cooks for my boyfriend and I, most of the time. I do have an aid that comes in 3 days a week. She can do some cooking. But the few times we have had her make some things, it didn't go well. I think she just gets too distracted, too easily. So we don't usually ask her to do much.
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> But with my limited experience, it's making things rather difficult. I don't want to cook extravigant meals. But I do want things to taste flavorful. I have been finding recipes that sound great. But I don't know the first thing about how to prepare some of these things.
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> For example, I don't know how to mince garlic. So I bought it already made this way.
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> We have a glass top stove. Therefore, you can't physically touch the burners. So we bought an electric skillet. We have to get the temperature knobb marked. But at least now we have something we can use. I am also looking into purchasing a talking meat thermometer.
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> But I don't know anything really about baking chicken. Much less, making sauces, or sautaeing veggies. I feel way out of my depth here.
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> I have tried twice now to join the cooking in the dark email list. The first time I never got a response. This last time, I got a message stating my email was undeliverable. So I am not quite sure what is going on there.
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> I have also considered contacting the society for the blind, out here where I live, to see if I could get some help with cooking. I know that they used to help with this sort of thing.
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> However, I don't know if they are doing this currently, due to the virus. Next Monday I might give them a call, and see what they have to say. I would call this week. But the weather is pretty bad right now. It is pretty much supposed to be this way all week.
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> But I feel like I am possibly not eating enough. Much less, eating what is good for me. Lately, I have been skipping breakfast. I know this isn't necessarily a good thing. It is also not something that my doctor really wants me to do.
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> But a lot of the times, I just don't know what I want. I also get bored with eating the same things over, and over again. So I just don't eat.
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> I usually have lunch around noon. I've been eating a turkey and cheese sandwich, and some grapes. About 15 of them. Or I will eat about 10 vanilla wafers. Or a sugar-free chocolate pudding cup. For my drink I either have a bottle of Gold Peak, diet tea. Or a bottle of water.
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> My bread for my sandwich is, Sara Lee, honey weat. I have tried buying something else. But it is difficult to get my boyfriend to eat a different bread. If we purchase 2 different breads, then too much gets thrown out.
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> My turkey is Land O Frost. I think it is honey smoked. It's honey something. But I can't remember exactly what it is. I usually use 3, to 4 slices of the turkey.
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> My cheese is currently a sharp cheddar I got from the deli. I just use one piece.
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> If I have a snack in the afternoon, it is usually candy. Which isn't at all good. I beat myself up for this, pretty regularly. But usually in the afternoons I am upstairs, as I am as I write this. So it is the most simple thing to access. If I am downstairs, I have a pudding, which is sugar-free. Or a peach cup. Or some grapes. This afternoon, it was a fun-size bag of skittles. As well as, a fun-size bag of M&M's. Also, a small bag of cheese popcorn.
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> For dinner this evening, we had Marie Calendar, chicken potpie. I think they are about fifteen ounces, if I am remembering correctly. With that, I drank a glass of Mylo's zero calorie sweet tea.
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> Then later in the evening, I unfortunately had some more candy. I had 2 snack-size peanut butter cups, and a mini honeybun.
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> I do drink a good amount of water during the day. So this is at least a plus. Not every day is like this, when it comes to snacking, or meals. But in the last week, or 2, most of the time this is how it is. This is not at all good. I know only I can change it. And I do want to make it happen. I just feel crushed by it all sometimes.
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> My boyfriend, and friends are supportive. But most of my friends aren't dealing with diabetes. So in many ways they just can't relate.
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> My boyfriend is willing to try new things, and tries to be supportive. But he also wants us to have quick, and easy things for us to fix. I can understand this. But at the same time, it's not as though we have jobs, or kids to raise. So in a lot of ways, we aren't hurting for time. We have a good deal of time on our hands, during the day.
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> So this is the latest. I know things need to change. My blood sugars are going low at times. Although, not as low as they were just as of about 2 weeks ago. It has gotten better since they adjusted my Triseba. The lowest it has gone lately is, 65.
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> However, I have been getting nasty headaches lately. They will sometimes start not long after I am up. There are times where they will go away on their own. Other times, I can't seem to get rid of them. They don't always seem to happen when my blood sugar is low. But I can't help but think that they are somehow related.
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> Any thoughts are much appreciated. Also, I just appreciate you all listening.
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> Thank you. I will keep you all posted.
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> Terri
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