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“The first thing my doctor told me was that I ‘didn’t look diabetic’,” she said. “Looking back, it’s hard to imagine anyone saying that, because diabetic doesn’t look like one thing. Everybody is different.
” Following her diagnosis, Mercer’s day-to-day life completely changed. She was placed on an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor to help manage her insulin, but as she describes it, the disease is not a “set it and forget it” type thing. She has to count carbs after every meal, snack and vitamin, and adjust insulin based on hormones at each phase of her cycle. If she plans to exercise, she has to look at her blood sugar reading hours before to determine if she needs to eat or give herself insulin. She also has to be aware of the weather, as hot and humid days can make her blood sugar spike. But she also found that as her life changed, her body did too. “I’ve had my own share of mental health struggles around my weight,” she said. “When I was diagnosed, I was very thin. But as my body regulated itself after insulin injections, I put back on the weight and then some. Going from looking at myself in the mirror as a thin person to being at my heaviest has been challenging.” For people with diabetes, weight gain and negative body image can be devastating — as they are also faced with blame over their disease by an uneducated general public. But coupled with the pressures from pop culture and diet trends that promote rail thin body types as ideal, the struggle can be all but impossible to handle. “The shame that still surrounds diabetes is something that I’m personally so passionate about,” Mercer said. “I see young girls who withhold their insulin, because lack of insulin in a type 1 diabetic often means you’ll lose weight as you go into diabetic ketoacidosis, your body literally starves itself. This diabulimia is incredibly dangerous.” And she’s not alone. Approximately 91 percent of all women are unhappy with their weight, with one in two adolescent girls seeing themselves as having weight problems,And we are seeing these trends in younger girls more and more due in large part to social media and celebrity-endorsed diets. One trend that has gained substantial popularity in the last year is the use of Ozempic, a diabetes drug that boosts insulin sensitivity and suppresses appetite, which can lead to weight loss. The trend emerged on
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