I'm never hungry, eating the way I
do. One of the most telling and important indications of a person's
diabetic tendency is hunger. If you aren't hungry and do not have a
tendency to overeat, it's a good sign. Otherwise, better check your
blood sugar.
I am not hungry because I get the insulin I
need. Artificially. And of secondary yet very significant importance, I
eat only high-value food.
Without insulin, 'super food
only' would do me no good. Insulin enables digestion, including that of
sugars. Without it, you have more than excess sugar that can't get
digested, but also every other vitamin and nutrient. Thus hunger.
Starvation is a better word for it.
Before I understood
it, and before I had enough insulin, I ate till the needle pegged and
then ate a lot more and then threw up every night. The feeling of
starvation never left, it was constant throughout every day. For 8
years.
High blood sugar and the damage it does is only one
side effect of "Sugar" Diabetes. The general problem of the disease is
seldom discussed.
Most people are Type II though, and I am
pretty much Type I, I think. My doctors were never interested in
determining it for certain. I don't know if it's exactly the same
experience with hunger for Type II folks. I expect it is though. Type I
is inadequate insulin, Type II is insulin resistance, so I would expect
the effect to be similar, except that in the case of Type II, the
person can reduce their resistance through exercise and diet. A Type I
person can exercise till the cows come home and eat perfectly and they
will still starve and suffer sugar damage as much as if they had stayed
home on the couch, to the degree that they are insulin deficient.
So
based on just my experience, I am certain I am at least predominantly
Type I. Which makes sense because I never lived the life they say
causes Type II.
The rare times that my sugar
doesn't want to come down, I suspect are times when I am temporarily
more Type II than usual, due to lack of exercise or whatever. I take
shot after shot after shot, and it does no good till I get back to
normal. Happens like once a year or whatever.
People
notice that the body works overtime to accommodate less-than-perfect
discipline, and not when they have had good discipline for a while.
When they've been disciplined and then suddenly fall off the wagon, they
hit the road and the rocks a lot harder than when they have been
less-than-perfect for a while, and do the same things. Catches the
system off-guard. I notice it myself.
