I thought about it for a while before writing this article, after reading on a site for diabetic patients some mistakes that people with diabetes tend to make , unfortunately, worsening their situation.
I do this because I know three people with diabetes very closely.

Two have type 2 diabetes, that is, they are insulin resistant, another person has type 1 diabetes, that is, they have a disease that is now classified as an autoimmune disorder, for which the pancreas does not produce adequate insulin (or does not produce it. at all). In both cases, a condition of hyperglycemia occurs.

Only in the latter case have I noticed that the person I know follows a diet that is more aimed at avoiding glycemic spikes, and in general healthier.

While those who suffer from type 2 diabetes make exactly the 5 mistakes that I will now tell you. So in my case it is two out of three people.

Which makes me think (but without wanting to generalize) that many people who have diabetes tend to make the same, identical, mistakes. And Dr. Lara Rondinelli, a physician and dietician, says in fact that she happens to have these problems with most of her diabetes patients.

Here are the 5 most common mistakes that the doctor has found working with people who have diabetes. 

DO YOU HAVE DIABETES? AVOID THESE 5 MISTAKES
More than errors, as you will see, this is precisely the wrong behavior.
Or:

1) I can eat whatever I want as I take insulin / medications a lot. It also happens frequently to me to witness this scene. Some people with type 2 diabetes take the antidiabetic drug, which is usually a hypoglycemic agent, just before eating. But this also applies to diabetic patients who use insulin and who think that it is enough to calculate how much insulin to use in order to remedy the overeating.

So you feel empowered to eat whatever you want.
Now: unfortunately the drug is not a lifesaver, it is a drug.

Food, on the other hand, affects our health at 360 °. Today, for example, we know that the fat that covers the pancreas plays a role in insulin resistance from type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the patient with insulin resistance must keep weight under control, and visceral fat in particular . The more that increases, the more your condition will get worse. Those who think they are in an iron barrel because there is a lot of drug (often more than one) that saves them from hyperglycemia is not clear that how much and how we eat affects our health and that how much and how we eat a responsibility.

Same thing for those suffering from type 1 diabetes and who experience the disease as something against which it is useless to correct the lifestyle, since the problem is upstream.

But if I binge on cakes, bread, drink alcohol, and eat large meals because I think I have no problems if I keep my blood sugar under control, it is as if I forget that there is also cholesterol, there are triglycerides, there is overweight, there is high blood pressure, there is an intestinal balance that regulates how my body will use food to live.

And you can’t think of taking a pill for everything.

2) I only like sweets. Another thing that I have often heard too and which is generally the result of a double misunderstanding. One, when a person says he has a sweet tooth he is not saying that he would be able to eat a kilo of sugar, but that he loves snacks, cakes, snacks, and so on. They not only have sugar, they also have a lot of fat. Therefore, rather than talking about sugar addiction, we are actually talking about addiction to often industrial and very palatable foods.

Another misunderstanding is to believe that we cannot act on this preference of ours. In the intestine, the more I eat certain foods, the more my body will tend to require only or almost exclusively those foods. This is because in our bacterial flora who is in over-number commands, there is no democracy. The sugar-loving bacteria will begin to increase at the expense of others and affect our choices. This is another way of taking responsibility for our eating habits.

3) I went out to eat / with friends and I did not want to influence them: this is also something I have heard. With the only difference that those who say it do not notice that even on these occasions they tend to eat much more than others.

Unfortunately, while imagining the desire not to want to influence others or to want to be treated like someone who does not have diabetes, this excuse does not hold.

At the restaurant we choose, not the chef or friends. And what do you do at the home of friends or relatives, do you keep a secret about your condition? Come on, that’s not true. Suffice it to say that you cannot eat dessert and no one will object to anything. Here, too, you don’t have to give others responsibility for your choices.

4) I have to take care of my family, I don’t have time to think about myself.

This excuse like the previous one is also often used by those with weight problems. Not having time. But if you waste time in the kitchen anyway, why not just cook healthier, full stop? Or why not learn to eat less? These things don’t steal any of your family’s time. Or are you saying that you have zero say in your own family?

You are part of the family and your health matters. You cannot help others or take care of others if you don’t know how to take care of yourself first. Also because sooner or later your health problems will affect others. Diabetes creates many other problems, starting with vascular ones. You always have time to take care of yourself.

5) Life is too short to deprive yourself of food. Many people think of diet as deprivation, when diet is a lifestyle that teaches us, if it is healthy, to eat better, not less. And those who always make the same food choices are wrong whether they eat pizza or eat chicken breast and broccoli. In addition, life becomes shorter if health goes to bless.