176 days ago I was diagnosed with level two diabetes.
From that date for this, I have eaten no chocolate and no sweet biscuits – just one ice cream at night is my “sweet” intake.
I have prescription medicine to take each morning and have to inject Ozempic once a week.
I have given of eating between meals and my first meal of the day is lunch – just a cup of coffee in the morning when I get up proceeds then.
The upside of my diagnosis is that it motivated me to look at losing weight. That is going down slowly and steadily and I intend to keep it up.
Being diagnosed with diabetes made me think more carefully about my health and has introduced me to the principle of self-care as described.
EDUCATION, A LIFE FORCE 
That’s a big change to have to absorb. I have always figured I would be willing to give up the sweets and other not-as-nutritional foods if I got a diagnosis which required it, but typing that makes me realize that thinking is kind of ass-backwards. Why not let them go by choice??