My husband eats very differently from me and most people don’t understand my willpower. We were talking about this just the other night. I can stop at Pizza Hut and pick up a pizza for him and drive home with that smell in my car and not eat it. He has a bag of 100 Grand mini bars on his bedside table all the time and I don’t touch them. He keeps a loaf of bread on the counter for sandwiches, waffles and ice cream in the freezer and last night I cooked biscuits for him to have with his dinner. He spread raspberry jam on them. How do I do this?

My sister, who is ten years older than me has been on kidney dialysis for about three years now. She has sores on her feet that won’t heal. She’s had stents put in both legs, more than once, to try to get better circulation. She falls all the time because she can’t feel her feet. Last time, a few weeks ago, she was in the ICU because she had a brain bleed from hitting her head so hard on the concrete. These are just a very few of her problems directly related to the food she’s put in her mouth with some genetics thrown in.

This was going to be me if I didn’t do something to control my sugar other than continue to up the medicine to treat the symptoms and keep eating the Standard American Diet. I don’t know if eating low carb will completely protect me from all these things, but I’ve been able to get off two of my diabetes medicines completely and reduce the last one by half. And I feel great! When others want a nap after lunch at work, I’m ready to work. I don’t have that afternoon slump from carbage.

It’s been a struggle. My favorite foods were carbohydrates. I had to decide my life was worth more than a fried shrimp poboy!

You can do this! Is it hard? Yes! Will you be tempted everyday at every meal? Maybe! You have to decide your health is worth it. Nobody controls what goes inside of you, but you.

Keeping a journal here has helped me. When I’m not journaling about what I’m eating, I don’t feel an accountability. I need this for me. You may need a different way of accountability. Find what works for you. You are worth it!