2011 - now:
In the world there are over a million types of chocolate, sweets, cookies, cakes, milkshakes and alot more sugary delicious goodies. There are also fruits which contain a high level of natural sugar, for example: watermelons, grapes, bananas, etc.
My favourites were always milkshakes at a restuarant, maybe a piece cake at a birthday, candyfloss(cottoncandy), Oreos, Wonderbars, chocolate M&Ms and so on, but being diagnosed with T1D all these things had to fall away and I couldn't eat them anymore.
(As a nine year old try to imagine, the first year of school you can bring sweets to school in your lunchbox and then having that taken away and have to see all your friends always eating theirs. Feels sad right?)
I always felt the need to eat the sweets but I wasn't allowed. When people in your class use to celebrate their birthdays, they could bring cake or cupcakes or whatever they wanted for the whole entire class. The entire class could het a piece of cake or a cupcake or whatever there was, all except me. Now that breaks a nine year olds heart when telling then they can't have sugary goodies.
(Now imagine what you felt a paragraph up, it felt about ten times worse on days like that.)
Sometimes it's hard to be told no, so thanks to my parents they let me cheat a little letting me at least have some cake at a family's or friend's birthday. Although was this always the fact? No it wasn't I remember one time my uncle made candyfloss for everyone and I wasn't allowed to have any. Why? Because candyfloss is pure sugar.
Let me tell you the cold hard truth, having to learn yourself say no to a chocolate bar of a packet of Oreos or anything sugary that you use to love is not at all easy. It took me months, maybe years to say no but that craving still stays and calls out to you and bring able to walk away is very difficult to do. My family sometimes forgot about my condition (candyfloss story) and that made me wish that this would have never happened to me, because I am the only one in my family with T1D and some of my family members only have T2D. This makes it much more difficult to go through because no one knows what I ever go throug
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Remember:
No one is ever perfect. We all make mistakes. We all go through different things in life. We all have different struggles. Nobody has ever not been through something that has either made your life easier or more difficult, but you just got to keep hanging in there because you'll make it through eventually.
Much love,
Karla ❤
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