The answer to your question has nothing to do with the fact that you are or are not diabetic. It doesn’t matter what the situation is. People do or do not do the right thing simply because they choose to inside of themselves. Choice is all up to the individual and what they wish to accomplish or get out of a situation or become in themselves. It is solely connected to your will power in yourself and your will power is that part of you that chooses to do right or wrong in yourself. In otherwords, if you want what is best and good for you, you will do what you have to do to achieve that for yourself. If you do not care, then you won’t do anything to improve yourself. Whether or not it is or isn’t hard to do also depends on how you look at the situation and make your own mind up about it. You can choose to struggle with the situation or you can accept it and make the most of it. It’s all up to your inner person and how you want to become a success or remain a failure in whatever task or situation you are going through. DO YOU want to CONTROL IT or do you WANT IT to CONTROL YOU? If you control the situation, then you mature and become a success. If you let the situation control you, then you fail and stay where you are at. It’s all in the way you look at your situation. Will you make it a WIN or a LOSE situaion? Your choice. Good luck.

I am type 2 diabetic. For me, it is a combination of habit and availability. I do not, intentionally, eat the foods that I shouldn’t. But when it comes to some foods reason just goes out the window. If I shop when I am low emotionally, sometimes I succumb to the desire for cheesecake. If there are no individual servings and I bring home the whole thing, I am like an alcoholic. I can not stop at one slice, the whole thing can be gone in one sitting.

Exercise has always been something that had no place in my life. I used to feel that people got enough exercise in everyday life. I have never driven, so I used to walk everywhere. I would set out on a 12 mile hike to a friend’s house with no second thought. I now, in my mid fifties, have bad knees, back, etc. I go to the pool with friends of mine, but I have to rely on others to get me there. If I had a scooter I might go more often.

It was hard for me because I was used to not having to watch my sugar in-take. I was used to being able to eat all the sweets I wanted without feeling sick. Then after I got pregnant EVERYTHING changed for me. I had to make sure I was balancing my diet. The worst part of it all was when I had to prick my finger with a needle 4x a day everyday to make sure I wasn’t getting too much or not enough sugar. I hated it because everybody around me could have as much sugar as they wanted. I was told by my doctor from now on even though I have had my baby, I still have to watch what I eat because I can end up with diabetes later in life.

Diabetics usually likes sweet food and drinks and they have to stop eating and drinking all these that contain sugar. Most of the processed food sold outside contains sugar or a high content of carbohydrates and there are only a few food available for them. They have to monitor their blood sugar level at all meals and it is rather frustrating. They have to be watchful of what they eat and exercise enough to burn up the sugar. Life is hard when they have to think that they have to do all these dos and don’t the rest of their lives.

Diabetes and depression seem to be linked. The jury is out on diabetes causing depression, or the other way around, but each sort of exacerbates the other, and fighting depression is hard enough without trying to make yourself stay motivated enough to take good care of yourself physically. I have/had a spouse and in-law with both and watching them suffer is very difficult for me.

It’ not that it’s so hard for them to do what they need to do, it’s more like it’s hard to live a normal lives for people that have to have insulin shots once or twice a day.

The insulin has to be refrigerated so if you are traveling (on a long plane trip for instance) that can become a problem. That rules out camping pretty much to as you are limited to how much ice you could keep for any length of time.

Diabetics also have to worry about problems with vision, the prospect of going blind, and of having to have their feet amputated in some extreme cases.

Just like any lifestyle change, some are harder than others for people to accept and change.

Most people have some type of issue in their life whether it be finance, anger, eating, gambling, drinking and on an on. The same would relate to them would it not?

When the person is ready to change, they will.

People do not become diabetic overnight, and often it takes time for them to change their habitual ways. Everyone backslides occasionally and nobody is perfect. Please don’t be so quick to judge. They know their life depends on it and it is something they will always be aware of, however, they still make poor choices sometimes as people do.

Have you every been on a diebetic diet? They are bland, expensive and boring. No fun.

to keep it short and simple, because they do nt feel like it and cause they always tired 24/7