Hello charlene and welcome 🙂
Being diagnosed is a massive shock and such a challenge to adapt to, it puts so much focus on food and things you just never had to bother with. Whether we like it or not we are insulin dependent, it's not a choice. All the rapid weight loss pre diagnosis was your body burning fat in desperation for some energy, you get very ill at diagnosis and by skipping insulin you are replicating that situation.
I know how hard it is, but the body weight you got to pre diagnosis was unnatural. That doesn't mean you'll pile loads of weight on using insulin, your body will find it's own level and you can control your weight through diet, exercise and carefully matching carbs with insulin.
As someone who went down the same road as you, starting to skip insulin I beg you not to do it. It's a very easy thing to start doing, the results are instant but the damage on the inside doesn't take long to start. I wish high blood sugar stopped us in our tracks like low blood sugar does. We treat hypos because we have to but with high blood sugar we can carry on for a bit but the damage starts quickly unseen in the background and diabetes doesn't care that you have four precious little ones reliant on you being healthy.
Please talk to your diabetes team if you have one or do reconsider counselling. You're only so recently diagnosed and you can set off on the right road for a long healthy future but that does include insulin - until the elusive cure is found!
Think hard about what you are starting to do, I know how very difficult it is and skipping injections looks like an 'easy' fix but as someone nearly 40 years further on I can guarantee you that finding a happy balance between food and insulin is the only safe way forward. I wish you well and please talk to us on here if you decide you can't manage face to face appointments.Good luck 🙂
