Diabetes: Coping With Your Feelings About Your Diet: Why Deal With Negative Feelings

Diabetes: Coping With Your Feelings About Your Diet
Introduction
What are your feelings about the diet for diabetes?
Why deal with negative feelings?
How to deal with negative feelings about your diet for diabetes
Where to go from here
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Why deal with negative feelings?

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Negative feelings can get in the way of your ability to learn about and follow your diet, which is very important for keeping your blood sugar level within your target range.

Feeling deprived of your favorite foods may cause you to eat more of those foods, resulting in high blood sugar levels.
Feeling afraid of complications from diabetes may cause you to eat too little food, resulting in low blood sugar emergencies.
Feeling angry or resentful about having to follow a special diet may cause you to resist learning about the diet, which will affect your ability to carry out your treatment.

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Last updated:	October 03, 2008
Author:	Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS
Reviewed By:	Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC

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