Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
What does it take to finally succeed in your battles with weight and perhaps, adult onset diabetes?
A wake-up call, your ?aha moment? as Oprah likes to say. And then, as Jerry, my husband of 41 years so unceremoniously puts it, ?You need to find someone ? or something ? worth more to you than your selfish choices and habits.?
?Selfish? choices and habits? Yes, gorging and relying on food as we did ? when we were happy, depressed, stressed, bored ? when our emotions could only be comforted by food.
Then came last Dec. 27 when physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital delivered grim news: Jerry?s blood tests were proof he had Type 2 Diabetes, the onset of the serious disease limiting a person?s ability to move sugar from the bloodstream into the cells that need it. At 62, and with heart problems (he had a stent implanted in 2009), Jerry was putting his health in serious jeopardy.
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/...betes-one-couples-amazing-transformation.html
A wake-up call, your ?aha moment? as Oprah likes to say. And then, as Jerry, my husband of 41 years so unceremoniously puts it, ?You need to find someone ? or something ? worth more to you than your selfish choices and habits.?
?Selfish? choices and habits? Yes, gorging and relying on food as we did ? when we were happy, depressed, stressed, bored ? when our emotions could only be comforted by food.
Then came last Dec. 27 when physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital delivered grim news: Jerry?s blood tests were proof he had Type 2 Diabetes, the onset of the serious disease limiting a person?s ability to move sugar from the bloodstream into the cells that need it. At 62, and with heart problems (he had a stent implanted in 2009), Jerry was putting his health in serious jeopardy.
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/...betes-one-couples-amazing-transformation.html