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Our daily demands often require that we put ourselves last in the “pecking order”. We love our children and we would give our lives for them, but few of us recognize that working an extra ten hours a week might provide our children with more immediate pleasures, but in the grand story of life, your children would much rather have you be in good physical and emotional shape, and be there (without diabetes) when they are having their own children.  Your children do not want you to “give your life” to further provide extras, you are the extra they really want and need in their future.  The choice is “am I going to put my own health into my family formula, or am I going to work myself out of a long-term healthy future. In this case, to think about ME is not an act of selfishness, if you explain this well to your children, they too will agree and support your needs to protect your health and maybe exercise with you and eat better as you eat better.