A diabetes diagnosis can be earth-shattering. Life, as you know, it is about to change in unknown ways.
While it is so easy to see everything that might be slipping out of your fingers, it is important to note that many remarkable people also live with this condition. These people not only survive but actually thrive, despite the restrictions they may face.
Today I want to introduce you to some of these people and share their words to support you during this time.
Repeat after me: It’s not your fault that you’re sick.
Life is not over because you have Diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
– Dale Evans
People think it’s hard to cut out sugar, but it can be done. You just have to put some effort in.
– Halle Berry
People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure, MY Diabetes, My heart disease, My depression. My! My! My! Don’t own it because it doesn’t belong to you! – Stella Payton
– Stella Payton
My Diabetes is such a central part of my life… It did teach me discipline… it also taught me about moderation… I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant… because I feel better when I am in control.
– Sonia Sotomayor
Diabetes sounds like you’re going to die when you hear it. I was immediately frightened. But once I got a better idea of what it was and that it was something I could manage myself, I was comforted.
– Nick Jonas
The crucial thing to me is being a diabetic doesn’t stop you from doing anything.
– Theresa May
I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 Diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.
– Tom Hanks
Every day is an absolute battle. I don’t care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, ‘I accept that I have diabetes, and I’m not going to let it run my entire life.
– Bret Michaels
My secret is no secret. I just do all the things you’re supposed to do. I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I’m happy. I choose the good things.
– Sharon Stone
“The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.” – Stephen Furst
Diabetes just boggles me. I know when you get a heart pain; I’ve had them. I don’t know what Diabetes feels like. … If someone had said to me, ‘What’s your number 1 health problem?’ I would have said heart disease and then Diabetes. And what doctors tell me now is that I can transpose them and say Diabetes.
– Larry King
People with high blood pressure, Diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
– Dick Gregory
You can take hold of the situation. I feel great now. I live the right way. I wear fierce clothes. Everything I do now, I do it proud. I am a divabetic!
– Patti LaBelle
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life.
– Bryan Adams
Some days are easier than others, but every day is a new experience, and you just have to remember that whenever you are at your lowest, it always gets better.
– Victor G
Diabetes taught me discipline.
– Sonia Sotomayor
I was born with a bad pancreas, and I could have been born with something a lot worse. I wasn’t particularly lucky, but I wasn’t particularly unlucky, either.
– Kathryn Ormsbee
People think it’s hard to cut out sugar, but it can be done. You just have to put some effort in.
– Halle Berry
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
– Sherri Shepherd
Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food – it’s fun, and it could save your life!
– Jamie Oliver
Everyone has a challenge in life. There’s always something you’re overcoming…We get knocked down, but we can get back up. Chase your dreams. Rely on your support team. Find out what resources you have and use them. Don’t let Diabetes stop you.
– Will Cross
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
– Clayton M. Christensen
Don’t let yourself fall. You gotta pick yourself right up and strive to do better and be better! Think positive. Don’t let the Diabetes control you! You control the Diabetes! Be strong because someways might be tough, but you are tougher!
– Tiffany Danczak
I just took the chance. [Diabetes] wasn’t going to stop me from playing. There was no fear. I was never convinced that anything would keep me from getting back to playing.
– Austin Freeman
Some deal with Diabetes with a sense of humor, others with determination. What is common between each is they not only face it, they conquer it!
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