Diabetic Life(2) - An Example of Lunch for Serious Diabetic Patients

Successful Disease Struggle and Advices on Food for Serious Diabetics. - Lunch



Only lunch, I eat ‘as any amount as I can’ without care of any amount or calorie.

Even though I don’t care calorie or amount only for lunch, my eating habit itself is I don’t have much of the high-calorie food like meat, fried dishes, etc. This eating manner enables me to keep the habit that I ‘eat only lunch as any amount as I can.’

My fixed idea about food is, one had better eat at least a meal a day up to his sense of fullness, so he ‘can be comfortable not only in food but also in overall living.’

There are many impulsive times when I feel like eating regardless of time if I cling only to food control for 3 meals a day and for 365 days a year. It would be fortunate if things stop at this point, but on too restricted a dietetic treatment, one might be confronted with so far as ‘the sense of oppression or so far as the lack of will that is felt throughout the whole life,’ which he haven’t even thought of till then.

Judging from my experience, rather than say ‘never eat too much’ for the diabetics who have to be on a long-term strict diet, I’d like to advise the patients to go easy on at least one corner, so that they get out of too much stress through the corner.

For average people, ‘eating’ itself is their great pleasure of life. Removing too much of this enjoyment is just too much, too inhuman. If there are any persons who live giving up this enjoyment in their lifetime, they are individuals who have almost already reached the mental state of delivered souls from worldly existence.

In my case, by helping myself to the full at lunch, I go easy not only on the stress of food itself but also on the pressure of life.

(Even this went to trouble from summer 2003 on. Since summer 2003 when my eyes got fragile, my eyes have been under a harmful influence due to the heat occurring naturally because of hot weather, even due to the heat caused by the food’s own calorie after intake of food. In summer, I cannot even have as satiating lunch as I can, so that I may avoid this phenomenon.
For 4 months of summer 2004, never have I had warm boiled-riced meals.
The food that I had for lunch was all that I ate as a proper meal. All along the summer since 2004, however, I have had for lunch the cold dishes such as cold soybean noodles, cold noodles, long rounded stick rice-cake,... Because I had to have cold dishes, I had to spend 4 months of the summer suffering inevitable occasional looseness of the bowels. So I wasn’t able to eat warm soup and warm boiled-rice until the morning of Korean Thanks-giving Day.

Once more I emphasize, changing for the worse like this is the formidable fact of progressive chronic illnesses and the feature of diabetes.)

The nearer one approaches autumn, the freer he becomes. But
① considering the diabetes’ feature that one’s body grows more vulnerable, weaker, worse and more ruined as longer time passes,
② other diabetics too must heighten the intensity of their struggle against disease up to this much
③ for the sake of their own bodies.


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