Support for Your Diabetes & Eating Difficulties
If You Live With Diabetes & Battle with Your Eating – You Are Not Alone
Living with diabetes can make eating feel complicated, stressful and at times overwhelming.
Diabetes places unique and constant demands on your eating choices, pressures which often make eating difficult, instead of enjoyable.
People living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes are vulnerable to developing eating difficulties as well as eating disorders.
If you live with diabetes and you’re struggling with food, eating patterns, your diabetes and/or your body image, please know that it’s not your fault.
Diabetes: Why Eating Can Become Difficult
Diabetes often brings stresses that people without diabetes may not fully understand, including:
- Food rules: Guidelines about what you can & can’t eat, which can often feel rigid.
- Constant monitoring: Tracking glucose levels, portions, carbohydrates, insulin and/or oral medications, which can be exhausting
- Blood sugar fluctuations: Highs or lows that you may not understand, often causing frustration
- Comments about food: Remarks from people who don’t live with diabetes about what you eat, which can feel judgmental.
- Diabetes distress or burnout: Feeling worn out or drained from managing your diabetes, which can sometimes impact your eating.
Many people live with diabetes. They experience similar struggles. You are not alone.
Lived Experience, Understanding and Support
Eating Free’s Founder and Lead Coach lives with diabetes and fully recovered from her own eating difficulties and an eating disorder.
With 20 years of full recovery behind her, today, she offers a safe, empathetic and confidential space where you can:
- Share your experiences without fear or judgement.
- Understand how diabetes may be shaping your eating patterns.
- Learn self-compassionate ways of eating that support your wellbeing and help you keep blood sugars within range.
I don’t want anyone living with diabetes to suffer with their eating difficulties alone.
– Alex van Essche, Eating Free Founder & Lead Coach
Why Medical Support Matters
If you live with diabetes and are experiencing difficulties with your eating – or suspect you may have an eating disorder – it is important to seek medical support, without shame.
Navigating your food and diabetes challenges, and reaching out for support, is about protecting your health and making an investment in your diabetes management, not a personal shortcoming.
You deserve compassionate, qualified care.
Meaningful Support For Your Life With Diabetes
Eating Free provides a safe, non-judgmental space to rebuild your relationship with:
Food and eating
Your Body
