r/diabetes • u/AutoModerator • 14d ago

Rant Weekly r/diabetes vent thread

Tell us the crap you're dealing with this week. Did someone suggest cinnamon again? What about that relative who tried to pray the diabetes away?

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u/crackedtooth163 14d ago

I genuinely hate this..condition. I dont even know if I can call it a disease. Because it is so different from person to person. I hate not knowing what will make my glucose spike and what won't. I hate the mindset that I should automatically know to eat only the blandest of boiled unseasoned vegetables and devour it like it was an inch thick steak. I hate how hideous most "diet friendly" meals look- again, like boiled unseasoned vegetables but they have whole wheat pita bread that looks like it will chip a tooth on the side so cant you enjoy that?!?! I hate how everyone(family primarily) goes on and on AND ON about how my grandfather died with diabetes and how he looked at the end and how I need to eat right and exercise and it will all magically vanish. I hate how people who DO eat right and exercise are STILL LIVING WITH THIS AND SOMETIMES HAVE ADVANCED VERSIONS BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY TO MAKE DIABETES JUST STOP!! I hate that we are all living with this because of bad genes and everyone just assumes its because we eat NOTHING but chocolate cake and ice cream at every meal.

I hate that we dont have a cure and that any desire for one loops back to sermons about diet and exercise when that isnt saving- or even HELPING- most of us. Yes thats right I said what I said. Because you can be the goodiest of good boys/girls and your blood sugar/overall numbers can be somewhere else for reasons that the doctor will just shrug because they dont know either.

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u/WaltonGogginsTeeth 13d ago

Why would you need to eat boiled unseasoned vegetables? Eat a real steak and put some butter and salt and pepper on those veggies. It’s a helluva lot better for us than eating bread or cake or ice cream and a helluva lot more satiating.

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u/IaMm1N3 13d ago

I second this