Topic : 01/03 Shocking Trends of the New Year

i'm not sure how but the insulin makes you gain weight sometimes.

my daughter doen't take her insulin alot ,  but for her it's a control issue

she's worked so hard for so long and her numbers are all over the place.

i think she feels more in contrrol of her body when she doesn't take the insulin.

her body does exactly what she thinks it will, not like the days when she drops low for

no reason, or is high and she did everything she was supoose to.

 

i think these kids need hope. we take our daughter to JDRF walks where she can see

lots of people who want a cure, and to camp setebaid. a camp for diabetic kids

i can really see a difference in her after we're at either one of them.

There is a book by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo called Eat Right 4 Your Type.  It is a book about the 4 blood types and the foods that help and harm the body when consumed.  Diabetes is nothing more than eating the WRONG foods for that blood type.  Many types of foods are poison to our blood.  Once we know what foods act as medicine and what foods act as poison with our own blood type then managing diet and weight gain is simple.  Just don't eat the foods on the avoid list.  It is just this easy.  Good luck.

I was thinking the same thing.

How does this start? 

Watching Kaytee today really made my blood boil.  I was extremely disgusted by her attitude of "oh, I don't care if I die, I just want to be skinny".  While Dr. Phil was giving Kaytee's mother advice, the mother indicated that it would cost $40k to get inpatient treatment, and that she would have to sell her house in order to do this.  I advise the mother to not do it.  If Kaytee wants to die, then let her.  Do not sacrifice your life in the process.  Perhaps I am a cold hearted SOB, but here is the way I look at it:
Each dollar that a person earns represents some fraction of their life.  For example, if you earn $40k per year, after taxes, then you may view spending $40k for treatment as wasting a year of your life.  But look at it another way.  Let's say that you earn $40k per year, but in order to take care of housing, food, and other expenses for the year, it costs you $$38k.  You only save $2k per year.  If you are saving at that rate, then it may take 20 years to amass the $40k.  Poor, selfish Kaytee seems to be happy to blow 20 years of your life in order to have her way, since "this is the only thing in life she feels she can control" (by the way, kids aren't supposed to control anything until they become responsible adults).  Personally, I wouldn't do it.  Poor selfish Kaytee is asking mom (and dad) to render some fraction of their lives useless for her insanity.  Mom and Dad, don't throw this fraction of your lives away and become slaves to this nonsense!
Tell Kaytee you love her, and kiss her goodbye.  Perhaps she'll wise up when she sees you aren't going to become a slave to her behavior!

I don't mean to sound harsh but HOW DARE YOU not take care of yourselves. You are both beautiful ladies. To both of you.....Do you have any idea the pain you are causing your families? I watched my niece die at the age of 31 years old from diabetes. She was diagnosed at age 8 years old and had to take insulin shots her  whole life. She tried very hard to maintain her diet and follow the doctor's advice. Even though she stuck to her regimen she ended up with neuropathy in her legs and feet (until she had to have them amputated!!), she had two kidney transplants (that both failed because of diabetic complications), and she was blinded.  IT DOES HAPPEN!!!!   IT WILL HAPPEN!!!   The pain we went through as a family watching her pain and agony was beyond words. Her mother still aches for her daughter. I still cry for her. She was my first niece and I was only 10 years older than her and she and I were best friends. I took her everywhere with me.  We had to watch her die at home with the hospice nurse on hand to try and ease her pain. I can't believe you ladies have such disregard for your loved ones that you are more concerned about you weight than your own health and the pain you are inflicting on your families. To the lady that has children. Your children should be taken away from you and given to a mother that will not abuse them the way you are. THINK ABOUT IT!!!    PLEASE, LADIES, I AM BEGGING YOU TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES!!!!  God Bless you  and your families.

I think that these kid out having fun on the matteresses should be appluaded for finding a constructive way to find their kicks. We are lucky enough to be able to send our boys up to the mountain for snowboarding where it is safe --2nd day up one wiped out ans slid under a tree 15 stiches in his knee--7 weeks later second trip up to the hill broken femur (full leg cast,  can't get hurt while couch bound) 2 month later 4th trip to hill went for a spring ride on the bike. Hit a tree root while coming around a corner and getting startled by a bear. 2 pins in his wrist. Now me and my husband are grateful to the show. and we will be getting all the nessesary tools for a little at home play time, because our home is soooo much closer to the hospital, and God knows kids never get hurt doing anything but mattress surfng. Get with it parents!!!!!!!!!!

 

KIDS WILL ALWAYS THINK THEY ARE IMMORTAL

 

The best we can do is hope that they are smart about it and that we don drive them to hiding it from us

What are these kids thinking?!  If I had ever done any of these things when I was a teen (not that long ago), my parents never would have let me out of the house.  My parents knew what I was doing most of the time.  I now watch my kids like hawks.  I know I can't control everything they do, and I can't be there every single second of every single day watching them, but I am teaching them common sense.  I am glad to see that some of the teens posting here are smart enough to not do these things.  That gives me hope when I think about when my girls become teens.  I hope they are strong enough to withstand the peer pressure.  What they need to think about is the fact that they can really hurt themselves, or someone else, with their careless behavior.

Having Type 1 diabetes for the past 38 years, and truly understanding these two young ladies on the show today, I felt I needed to write.  I was diagnosed at age 5 and by the time I hit 13, I struggled to try and find hope for my life.  My mother only 'harped' at me to eat correctly and told me extremely negative things concerning my future. . .it just propelled me to try and find ways to not let the words she used destroy me, but to be the best I could be.  I felt 'fat', but really wasn't (weighed 111 lbs. being 5'4" tall).  Back then, blood glucose meters were not available, so you had to have blood sugars checked at the doctor's office or hospital.  I was continually high, and when my doctors would up my dosage, it just made me want to eat more (a very vicious circle).  When I was 15 years old, I had an A1C test run with a reading of 19.6%!  The doctor said I would never reach the age of 20.  I feel abundantly blessed to be 43 today!  It wasn't until I married 18 years ago, that I finally got a clue about what I was doing to myself.  After extreme dedication with shots, etc. I ended up with two boys who are now ages 12 and 14.  This past year I went on an insulin pump and my life has been ENORMOUSLY better!  I cannot state enough how easy it is for people who don't personally deal with this disease to "preach" to someone who does have it.  The absolute best thing an 'outsider' can do is to encourage the diabetic as a PERSON--not just a person with a chronic illness! 

 

My youngest sister was diagnosed at age 3 and died at the age of 33 of Type I diabetes.  Our mother just would not quit 'harping' on her and her mind and body just gave up and out.  She was on kidney dialysis the past 8 years of her life, she lost a leg, had autonomic neuropathy, etc., etc.  My sweet sister was pulled from life support after living in hospitals for years.  My mother was with her all those years and stated that if it wasn't for her, my sister wouldn't have made it as long as she did.  What my mother didn't understand was that even though the 'facts' she presented to my sister constantly were true, (high sugars will damage your organs, etc., etc., etc.), my sister didn't need those 'facts' as much as she needed her to say, "You are a great person and I want you to have a wonderful life". 

 

It is a sobering fact that you can tell a person all the bad things that will happen to them if they don't make changes.  The bottom line is that it's solely that person's decision, but true encouragement from someone who truly cares, can amazingly help turn the tide of destructive behavior!!!!!  

    I think this whole mattress surfing thing is just STUPID.  Some young people once they find something that gives them that rush and there not aware of the dangers of. They go with it until they learn the hard way. The hard way is getting severly hurt and/or parallyzed.

     They get involved with these dangerous stunts because they think they are unvinsible.  They think nothing can hurt them, so they go out and live on the edge, take risks, and have a little fun.

After watching these diabetic girls today, I am just amazed that they are willing to be so abusive to themselves for their only perceived hope of being thin.  With today's diabetic tools;  Insulin pumps and pens, carb counting, blood glucose monitoring besides all the new meds and education, why don't they watch their food intake like many people who watch their weight?  There is no need to basically commit suicide to be thin when you can just  watch your food intake, just like many non-diabetic people do. I believe Wanda is on an insulin pump.  Being on a pump, she truly doesn't even have to eat as the goal of her basal settings is to keep her blood sugar normal without food intake then bolus for food.  Being a diabetic today, you can live a fairly normal life and taking control should hopefully mean choosing to function at a somewhat normal level and live a much more normal life than the life of a diabetic could in the past.  No, they will never be normal, but need to try hard to accept that fact and live with it.  I believe the girls said they felt they were in control by using this means of weight control and basically they have put themselves on the fast track of having their whole lives out of control and possibly a prolonged devastating existence.  They will probably see themselves in a state at some point where being a bit heavier than they would like looks pretty good compared to having amputations, going to dialysis and maybe not even being able to see their own reflection because of blindness.  I hope they can find themselves some help, but first, they need to want to receive it.