{"id":24143,"date":"2012-01-27T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=24143"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:37:02","slug":"paula-deen-caught-stuffing-a-cheeseburger-into-her-mouth-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=24143","title":{"rendered":"Paula Deen Caught Stuffing a Cheeseburger into Her Mouth, So What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Paula Deen was caught stuffing a cheeseburger into her mouth<\/a>, a week or so after coming out and admitting she has type 2 diabetes, and has had it for three years. The photo of Paula is far from flattering, but other than that I have to admit I don\u2019t understand why it\u2019s such a big deal.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m far from a Paula Deen fan. I\u2018ve never seen her show, I\u2019m not big on southern cooking, I prefer Mediterranean, and I follow a very low-carb, very restricted Paleo diet. But most people aren\u2019t like me, not type 1s, type 2s or non-diabetics.\u00a0 Most people eat cheese burgers with fries and many of them drink Coke while doing so. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, if Paula Deen ate the way I do, she wouldn\u2019t be overweight and she may not have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which means she wouldn\u2019t take Victoza. It\u2019s not as if she was diagnosed yesterday. She\u2019s had three years to lose weight and she hasn\u2019t. She prefers to eat what she wants and use medication to control her blood sugar.\u00a0 That’s her choice.\u00a0 I don’t agree with it.\u00a0 But my goal is to manage my diabetes with as little medication (in my case, insulin) as possible.\u00a0 I could eat everything that tempts me and take 100 units of insulin a day.\u00a0 But I don’t.\u00a0 I eat next to no carb and I take about 20 units of insulin a day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I manage my diabetes the way I do because I find that it works for me. I tried it the other way. I never used 100 units a day but I did use 40-50 and found that it just wasn\u2019t working for me. I know there are plenty of diabetics out there with A1c\u2019s as good as mine and better that eat differently. There is no one way to manage diabetes, each of us has to find a way that he or she can live with for a very long time.<\/p>\n

Paula Deen is not alone in the way she is managing her diabetes. Most people with and without diabetes find it very hard to lose weight.\u00a0 Most people find it hard to restrict carbohydrates.\u00a0 Even doctors have a hard time telling patients they should restrict carbs.\u00a0 Yet study after study – and plain, old common sense – tell you that one of the keys to diabetes management is to eat a carb-restricted diet. \u00a0I do know some type 2\u2019s who have done this.\u00a0 They changed their lifestyle after diagnosis, lost weight and started to exercise regularly. To me they are great role models and real diabetes heroes.\u00a0 But most people aren\u2019t like that and that is why medication is so important.<\/p>\n

Another thing that amazes me about the Paula Deen, including the latest cheese burger scandal, is all the critical talk about butter and fat. I know many people still consider butter evil, but blood sugar is not affected by it. \u00a0And it\u2019s not the fat in the food that makes people fat.\u00a0 In fact, there are many who believe that carbohydrates, not fat, are responsible for the obesity epidemic.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, I have no interest in Paula Deen.\u00a0 I didn’t even know who she was until the news of her diabetes and her deal with Novo Nordisk broke.\u00a0 Since she’s in the spotlight, I think she should use it to guide people to healthier lifestyles.\u00a0 So here is my advice to Paula Deen: \u00a0Keep on eating burgers, but stay away from the fries.\u00a0 Skip the bun, too.\u00a0 And try not to get photographed when you’re stuffing food into your mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I think it’s time we all move on and focus on ourselves and what we’re stuffing into our mouths!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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