Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Erin Akers shimmied into another pair of pants. The button clasped without protest even though they were three sizes smaller than she was used to wearing. It wasn?t the first time. She?d been reaching for smaller-sized clothes a lot lately. She smiled. She thought it was about time she became someone other than the fat girl.
Medically obese. That?s what the doctor had called her. Before she even hit puberty, she was worrying about calories and fat and whether the other kids at school would pick on her again today when they had done such a brilliant job of it yesterday.
But it seemed as if things were changing. Clothes were fitting better, and she had lost a lot of weight. It was bizarre, considering she hadn?t stopped overeating. In fact, the only change she?d made in her life was the amount of time she spent caring for her diabetes, which wasn?t much time at all. (Then again, she felt it wasn?t especially fair that she?d been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 10 and was expected to change the way she ate just because her body hated her.)
And then it hit her: Before her brother was diagnosed with type 1, he?d lost a ton of weight?until he started taking insulin. Maybe, she thought, in forgetting her insulin she was inadvertently shedding pounds. ?All of these pieces clicked into place,? Akers says now. ?An eating disorder was born right there.?
http://forecast.diabetes.org/disorders-mar2013
Medically obese. That?s what the doctor had called her. Before she even hit puberty, she was worrying about calories and fat and whether the other kids at school would pick on her again today when they had done such a brilliant job of it yesterday.
But it seemed as if things were changing. Clothes were fitting better, and she had lost a lot of weight. It was bizarre, considering she hadn?t stopped overeating. In fact, the only change she?d made in her life was the amount of time she spent caring for her diabetes, which wasn?t much time at all. (Then again, she felt it wasn?t especially fair that she?d been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 10 and was expected to change the way she ate just because her body hated her.)
And then it hit her: Before her brother was diagnosed with type 1, he?d lost a ton of weight?until he started taking insulin. Maybe, she thought, in forgetting her insulin she was inadvertently shedding pounds. ?All of these pieces clicked into place,? Akers says now. ?An eating disorder was born right there.?
http://forecast.diabetes.org/disorders-mar2013