re: Just diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

I'm just now at my 5 year anniversary of being diagnosed TD2. I've been through so many different phases of this, lets' see, there was the periods of handling it okay, then handling it great, followed by getting lax and fricking around and losing ground, then making great progress again over a short period of time, losing weight, getting off all injected insulins, resuming physical activity in a serious and consistent manner, and finally retreating back from that progress to where I think I'm back to square one again. It's been a trip, and it has not been pleasant. And at the end of the day, although I'm still relatively healthy, (Just this "well controlled" TD2, no additional health problems, I've just made a frustratingly tiny bit of progress in a very long period of time), it's demoralizing to face where I actually am today, 5 years after being diagnosed I really feel like it's Do Or Die time.

I'm now entering the period where I have to start accepting that I'm not exactly "newly diagnosed" anymore, and if I don't start getting my shite together it'll be impossible to send it into remission in the future. For years I've been opposed to adopting any kind of "diet" other than a balanced diet, but I can't even maintain that. I think I'm too carb sensitive and if I eat some bread/pasta/pizza/ultra-processed sugar laden garbage, it slowly turns into more and more until I'm just eating carbs/sugar all the time and not much else. So I'm saying "frick it"....officially and trying a low carb path now. Hope it works. Keep up your progress.