When Did You Choose Diabetes?

“Diabetes is called a lifestyle disease, because it’s not something that just happens to you one day.”

The diagnosis may give you the sense of it suddenly “happening”, (as it did for me) but the honest truth is that to have diabetes, or to not have diabetes, was a choice you made every day for years.

For as long as we’re willing to continue blaming, we are completely powerless to change the present. It’s easy to justify blaming, because the alternative is much more difficult (in the short-term). When you choose to be accountable to your choices of the past, you might be faced with a wall of pain; it takes a great deal of courage to acknowledge the consequences of the choices you made before you had your current level of consciousness and awareness.

In being accountable to the consequences of your past choices, you have a rare opportunity to see just how far you’ve come, and just how much you’ve grown. Here’s an example that will illuminate your progress; answer these questions with pen on paper because you will integrate it more deeply:

Name one thing you did five years ago, that you choose not to do today because you realize that it harms you.
Now, name one thing you do today for your health that you learned in the last five years.

An example of something you used to do could be smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating deep-fried food, or consuming any of the toxins from my last post. An example of something you do now could be reading about your health, exercising more, or eating more raw food.

It begs the question, why did you stop the unhealthy behavior, and start a healthy pattern? You might be blaming someone else for your improved health too. I’ve heard people say things like, “I’m exercising more because my doctor told me to”… Bullshit! If you’re taking better care of yourself, the reason is because you’ve made it important enough. You’ve made yourself important enough. You’ve already begun to take responsibility for your choices, and the more accountable you are the consequences of your choices, the faster your health (physical, mental, and emotional) will improve.

“Don’t Read This…Your Ego Won’t Like It!” is the first book I’ve read that digs deep into the destructive force of blame, and how powerful personal accountability can be in transforming your life… so powerful that your ego is bound to hate it! It’s deep, and it’s also broken up into smaller easy to read chapters. I highly recommend you check it out, it’s got a five star rating for a reason.