Grocery Shopping

I was talking to my mom yesterday about how hard being diabetic is. Actually, it isn't in the sense of doing what you have to do but the hard part is grocery shopping. There are not a lot of diabetic-friendly foods out there. So many things have too many carbs, mostly made of sugar and high saturated fat. It can now take me more than an hour to shop and that is without filling up my cart. I can still see the bottom of my cart when I shop. I go through every aisle reading and counting and trying to come up with good meals that will not get me a high reading. The questions of will it or won't it constantly run through my mind. Getting in a good sale is not really a big thing anymore but rather finding out something that I can eat is. I have become that person-the carb counter. Everything I do is revolving around my diabetes. I cannot sleep too late, I cannot eat this or that, I must take my meds, I must check out my sugar, I must exercise, I must. If not, the consequences can be deadly. I'm only 31. I don't want to look and feel older when I am 40 with only 1 kidney working, my eyesight shot, circulation running badly, etc. I do not. It will only be harder if and when I decide to have children. I must maintain my blood sugar levels no more than 120 or I run the risk of bearing a child with birth defects.

It is a lot to take and while I still think it is not hard to do this, finding diabetic-friendly foods is.

God give me strength.