The Diabetic Dilemma: Denial

Faced with diagnosis of being pre-diabetic doesn’t seem to register an alarm with most people. Oh, don’t get me wrong, it is troubling to most, but only to an extent, enough to bring it up at social events, over coffee, at the office, mentioning it to family and friends when they are telling their tales of woe. A sympathetic ear is nice and the minute in the spot light is very gratifying.
So why is this happening? I am guessing it’s because as a part of a diagnosis, the treatment is discussed. And we are all aware of the treatment… Lifestyle changes! That pretty much puts up a wall in receptivity to most. Crap, this is where it begins to suck. It involves work, thought and commitment and who needs more work in their lives?

It does take some thought to correct the impending Type Two…the thought that yeah…I want to live, see, walk and keeping my organs working wouldn’t be so bad. But it seems to fall short when there is meal planning, grocery shopping, holding back from the Ho Ho’s, getting up off our butts and actually exerting ourselves in effort to get it under control.

I know, the kids have a soccer practice and the tap in the bathroom is leaking, apparently the planning to save our lives will have to wait…and it does. And it does and soon enough, it’s forgotten. Well, we may have done something proactive, we may have
Read up on it and its risk factors got the rush feeling of fear like you get when watching a scary movie.
I read that pre diabetes is now being termed the “Pre Diabetic Epidemic” and I loved this term. That is exactly what it is! I think that more weight is given to having
High blood pressure and bad cholesterol….hmmm…could this be because they are
Those convenient little pills for that?
But our backs up get against the wall of defense when told we have to shed a few pounds. Maybe it would be more effective if the nurse at the doctor’s office gave us all extra
small paper dresses to wear so we popped out of them when trying to cover ourselves, or
weighed us twice…on the way in, and on the way out, expressing an effective “eye roll” as we dismount from the scales
We are pretty much indestructible so this one will not get us down. We don’t consider that we have hit the jackpot with this diagnosis. The wealth of health. And
The tools to actually save a life, our own.
Yes I do know that it’s not always about weight and a sedentary lifestyle, it can be in the genes too, so no digs are being thrown your way so if you are a tiny little thing holding a carrot stick. But genes or not…denial is in everyone’s make up.
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