Support for Diabetes & Eating Challenges
Diabetes, Eating and Weight Difficulties: You Are Not Alone
Living with diabetes is tough. Your diabetes can make hunger and eating feel complicated, stressful and even overwhelming.
Diabetes places constant demands on you as you manage your oral medicine or insulin, food choices, glucose levels and movement/excercise every day and every night.
Understandably, people living with diabetes are more vulnerable to developing eating difficulties as well as eating disorders.
If you live with diabetes and struggle with food, eating and your weight – you are not alone – and – it’s not your fault.
Diabetes is Not Always Easy to Manage
Diabetes often brings stresses that people without diabetes may not fully understand such as:
- FOOD RULES around what you can and can't eat which understandable feel too rigid and difficult to achieve.
- CONSTANT MEASURING AND CHECKING of glucose levels, food portions, carbohydrates etc. which can be exhausting.
- BLOOD SUGARS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND: Highs or lows that you seem to "make no sense" and cause frustration.
- COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT from people who don’t live with diabetes which can feel judgmental - and, are not OK.
- DIABETES DISTRESS & BURNOUT which you may experience when the daily self-management of diabetes becomes overwhelming and can sometimes affect your eating.
Overcome Your Diabetes, Food & Weight Stuggles
The Power of Lived Experience Support
Eating Free’s Founder and Lead Coach, Alexandra van Essche, lives with Type 1 diabetes. She understands the complexity of diabetes management – and, the impact that diabetes can have on eating.
If you live with diabetes and are finding eating and managing your your weight difficult, help and support it at hand.
There is a way to:
- Better understand your diabetes and its impact on your eating and
- Build a way of eating and living that supports your diabetes, your health and your life.
I don’t want anyone living with diabetes to be alone in their battle with diabetes, eating and body image.
– Alex van Essche, Eating Free Founder & Lead Coach
Meaningful Support For Your Life With Diabetes
Eating Free provides a safe, non-judgmental space to rebuild your relationship with:
Food & eating
Your Diabetes
