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antoinette shared this post · Sep 10
Overbeingoverit

Dumb Question- what does it mean when people talk about "reversing their diabetes?"

This is specific to Type 2 diabetes, which is what I have. You sometimes hear people use the phrase that they have or are trying to "reverse their diabetes." I don't really get what that means. My A1C last time it was checked was 5.4, which is in the healthy range, sure. But I wouldn't say that I have "reversed" or "cured" anything - I know from monitoring my glucose daily that if eat badly my blood sugar will still spike as if I have diabetes because I do in fact have diabetes. I also wake up with a fasting blood sugar that is often my highest number of the day (and def higher than would be expected in someone without diabetes) because my liver is an unhelpful dummy. So like, I definitely still have it. What do people mean when they say that they have reversed it?

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iphoneappids Remission Sep 10 1 like
Interesting-Fan-5866 It is reversing bad lifestyle, bad habits, bad diet (coke, Mcdonald, sugar, sweets, no exercise) with implementing good habits, good diet, healthy lifestyle. The end result is a healthy weight, healthy muscle, reduced fat. Basically you do a complete 180 (or reversing the car) moving away from destination feeling and being crap and unhealthy back to healthy. So you have 2 options. keeping on racing down highway T2D progression and complications and terrible death OR put on the breaks, Reverse and get the hell outa there and speed away the opposite side back to healthy HbA1c and blood work.

That is the reversal part, remember to the opposite side, the other direction of (back to doom Town T2D) is still there. You don't nuke the highway, you don't demolish the town of T2D, it's still there (no cure in the standard terms). I feel people should stop trying to label or criticise someone saying reversed T2D or cured my T2D when they made changes, turned that car around on the highway to T2D hell. You maintain your outcomes by keep going in the opposite direction and not getting bogged down with words or falling back into bad habits. The positive changes is not only good for T2D its good for your health as a whole so it should apply to anyone. You don't cure obesity, losing muscle, being unfit, heart and cardiovascular disease, you do a 180 and keep moving in the opposite and right direction
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JaninaWalker1 I really appreciate your choice of words. That's the best ever. I can't stand it that people feel that freedom means you should be allowed to do whatever you want. I never believed that way and as a result I may live longer. I don't even want to do what would be risky as I don't get a kick out of that as some people do. If you were to write a book, I would certainly want to read it. That's how much your choice of words showed that you've got the right perspective, at least in my mind. Sep 8 2 likes
Interesting-Fan-5866 Thank you. That is my opinion and my view and I realise its more nuanced and complex and some will have their own perspective and even experience and different views should be respected for me its based on one direction takes you towards T2D and most of us are travelling down that highway and some of us have been travelling down that highway too far and too long...how far and for how long sets how deep into T2D town we are. Some of us realise this is a bad neighbourhood and we get out of there, some think that the effort to find the way out and back on the highway is much too complicated and effort and just try to survive in their new neighbourhood. Sep 8 2 likes
antoinette shared this post · Sep 9
41M1ng

Here we go again

Not the hardcore shippers starting another huge fuss again because of a f-ing UNUSED line.
So sick and tired of this and that damn ring.

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AppliedCarbon He'll make it home to his loving wife, Sherry. Sep 8
Unique_Drink005 So the person who on the other line tend to worry.So it has to be Ada/Claire/Ashley/new character Sep 8
antoinette shared this post · Sep 7
Littlepebble_

Some reassuring thoughts (AND tips :3) for those struggling with death anxiety!

Hello! :)

I suffer from severe death anxiety. NDEs don't help me, I've lost practically all hope and I'm almost 100% sure there's nothing after we die (non-existence creeps me out).

This sub hasn't helped much, most users who post here are venting and there's not a lot of people helping and replying, so I wanted to put a small grain of salt and try to soothe you (at least a little) with some of the thoughts that have helped me!

  1. We are lucky we get to die. And I don't mean this from the 'living forever is terrible angle', even though that is true. I mean it because dying implies we existed in the first place. Have you ever been afraid of non existence, like me? Well, in the scenario that you were not to die you also wouldn't have been born. That's non existence FOREVER!!! No puppies, no sun, no beach, no sky. Yes, we're all going to die. But before that happens, we get to be part of the most beautiful planet in the galaxy.
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ChinXhin Your first point has always been my Anchor point in getting over this fear. Because there are always more people that don't even get to be alive and we do. We're scared of the eternal silence but trillions of human beings don't even get out of that silence and is just there period. We at least get to do things before we go back to that damned place.

It genuinely helps to think about that.
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kbmoregirl Your 4th point was basically the point that helped me the most with my own death anxiety. When I starting treating my death anxiety as more of a sign that I was feeling unfulfilled, it really helped me reframe that ugly scared feeling into something constructive. Sep 7 1 like
antoinette shared this post · Sep 6
Ealya_art

Help my mum find a similar game to E33!

TL:DR
- gameplay needs to be simple enough (story mode appreciated)
- she loves crime mystery books and movies (not too graphic or with gore)

Hello, like I asked in the title: do you have any recommandation for my mother?
After finishing my first playthrough I convinced her to play E33 together, it was her very first videogame EVER, so the standards are high.

She is looking for other games that have amazing stories, but she didn't care much about the gameplay. We played E33 in story mode and she struggled quite a bit, walking around and moving the camera was already hard for her. Many times she just wanted me to beat the bosses because she mostly cared about the plot, not the gameplay.
She was very good at noticing small details and connecting dots during the story: for example she almost instantly understood>!Maelle and Verso were related because of their eye color!<and that >!Verso didn't save Gustave on purpose.!<…

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Educational-Mess6022 It's a shame you're disqualifying horror because Silent Hill 2 is one of the most emotionally moving games I've ever played alongside E33. There's a mystery element to it as well, but it goes to very dark places.  Sep 6 2 likes
Incitatus_ Detroit is a pretty good choice, I'd say! Just don't go for Heavy Rain by the same studio, that game is terribly written, the mystery starts interesting but just drops the ball about halfway through and never picks it back up.

Disco Elysium is my number one recommendation, it's a masterpiece. But people have already mentioned it, so maybe some other well-written isometric RPGs? Those usually have easy mode options for combat and such so it won't be difficult for her to enjoy it. Particularly Baldur's Gate 3 and Planescape Torment, even if the combat in the latter is kinda bad, the story more than makes up for it.

Oh, and Chants of Senaar! It's a game about deciphering the different languages of groups of people living in a huge tower. It's fantastic and the puzzles are interesting without being obtuse.
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antoinette shared this post · Sep 2
lichtroze

DIY tile stickers: renter friendly and joyful!

Used a sample pack of cricut removable vinyls and cut them in the right size to mix and match :)

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Birdsonme I love this!! Sep 2 1 like
ae_bennett Inspiration for me! Love it so much! Sep 2 1 like
antoinette shared this post · Sep 2
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As a Socialist, I’m Conflicted Over my Parents Renting our Basement

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[deleted] Author Be a class traitor with the resources you have Mar 4, 2021 1 like
OXIOXIOXI It's literally the basement of your house, it's a pretty marginal thing and not even AirBnB. The thing after her is more of an issue based on how that works out. Mar 4, 2021 1 like