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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 445309" data-attributes="member: 99">I don't really have a lot of diet specific advice but I just wanted to lend my moral support to those of you struggling with it.About 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when I was 21 years of age.  In other words, I was on the Atkins diet without knowing it because my body was heavy into ketosis.  I'm about 6 feet tall and I weighed less than 125 lbs.There is nothing quite like waking up in the morning thinking that you have a high metabolism and coming home from the doctor that afternoon knowing that you were probably less than 2 weeks from being in a diabetic coma.  I can still remember my doctor looking me in the face and saying, "Yep.  You are a diabetic.  You are going to have to virtually cease all intake of candy, cake and other sweets and you need to limit your intake of other carbs like pasta, bread and especially alcohol (that last bit was a real kick in the pants to someone who had just achieved legal drinking age)."Wanting to know all sides of the issue, I asked what would happen to me if I didn't change my diet.  He bluntly responded, "Well, pretty soon, you'll go blind and impotent and eventually you will have kidney failure and die."That's a pretty good motivator right there.I've kept pretty good control of my blood sugar over the years and I'm now a healthy weight (around 175).  I never had much of a sweet tooth and when I do want sweets, the sugar-free cookies are getting more tasty every year.  I take my insulin before every meal and technology is getting better there too.  But I should probably work out more.  It is hard these days because my wife and I have a 15 month old daughter and by the time we get her in bed at night, we are utterly exhausted and exercising is just about the last thing on my mind.But I know from experience that if I would do it and stick with it for a couple of weeks, I will feel better and have more energy in addition to the other health benefits.  So, thanks to this thread, I'm going to resolve to get on my treadmill and start working out, at least 4 nights a week.  Thanks for the inspiration.But not tonight, of course.  Tonight, we play D&D.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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