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What snack time gave me | Kyoko Hatayama | TEDxHamamatsu


Translation: Toshihiro Suzuki Proofreading: Tetsuya Kawaguchi

I am currently running a cake shop with my husband and wife

Besides sales floor and kitchen

It is a small shop with only three-seat counter seat

There are people who come to drink coffee for chatting

People going to work on commuting or shopping

And

With meal restrictions

Those who have to put up with a snack

That person’s family and friends visit

It is slightly different from ordinary cake shop

Our shop cake is

I used a material that does not raise my blood sugar level

It is a low-sugar cake

Even though it is low sugar

The appearance and sweetness are almost the same as ordinary cakes

Carbohydrates are suppressed

But that is important

today

The reason why I decided to start a shop

What happened since the store started

I would like to talk to everyone

everyone is

suddenly

I do not eat my favorite sweets

What would you do if you were told?

Can you stand it?

Or

Do you eat secretly?

10 years ago from now

I have not experienced it

I was struck by a strange change in my physical condition

My throat thirsts

I am tired after being dull

I just went to the hospital

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

Although I had work knowledge of nutritionist

No way I’m going to have diabetes myself

I never thought of it.

At first it did not come with pins

However

I have no time to worry

Insulin injection and

The days of calorie restricted meals started

Diabetes has two types 1 and 2

Caused by inheritance and lifestyle habits

Unlike type 2 diabetes

Type 1 is characterized by sudden onset

Some people develop on baby days

Sometimes it occurs after becoming an adult like me

Type 2 diabetes is

I can improve it by exercise or meal

Type 1 diabetes is

A hormone that lowers the blood glucose level of insulin

Because it will not be made in the body

Instead of arms and thighs to belly etc.

You will be injecting insulin

There is currently no fundamental treatment method

Unlike diet restricting herself on diet

It was more than I imagined that I could not eat stress

Why did I get diabetes?

I feel depressed

When I ate too much

Regret that having done bad things

I have anxiety about future complications

I am afraid of the future

My eyes became completely dark

I had eaten it normally

Even just one cake

I regretted eating it

I originally like to eat

With friends and family

While eating snacks with coffee

I loved the time to enjoy the conversation

Diabetes from me

I took my favorite ‘snack time’

And

Turn your eyes away from sickness

Stop measuring daily blood glucose levels

I hid it and started to eat alone

I am afraid to know the blood sugar value that would be getting worse

Going to the hospital was melancholy and painful days

One time

I definitely want to forget about sickness

More

I thought of going to a world where nobody knows me

I decided to go to India alone for a trip

Do not you feel like India will change like somehow?

(Lol)

But actually it can not be changed

Even if I escape from reality in overseas for about 2 months, my heart will not clear up

Always in the head

About diabetes

It was full of food.

After all I am running away

Nothing had changed unless we confronted each other

after that

Since i came back

I do not use sugar and flour

It is a material that blood glucose level hardly increases

I knew I could make sweets

In this case you can eat without guilt

So I thought excitedly and immediately made it and tried it

However

I am diabetic

I have to eat “substitute”

That thought can not be wiped out

Even if I meet my stomach, I did not satisfy my heart

While thrilled

Low-sugar sweets made up a lot

that is

Being touched at the corner of the kitchen

After all I ate sweets I bought

I regret it.

The days that have not changed are the same as before

Finally

The work of dietitians involved in food became painful

I quit my job.

Where I was worried about what to do in the future

With parents who work for eating and drinking establishments

I decided to do something with my husband and wife with the vacancy of the store

However

What to do

I did not even know what I wanted to do

Such a thing to us

The parents recommended that

Pick up low-sugar sweets

It was a cafe.

Although the shop was opened for the time being

I was not facing the disease yet

Make sweets without motivation or confidence

Because I was selling it

I do not want to be known to so many people

To hide

I was opening a shop.

Naturally, most customers did not come

Even if I come, I did not even know how I could talk

And after about half a year ago

I did not look at me making too much

Daisuke’s husband

I started making sweets for the first time in my life

When I talked about the low-sugar cake that he made

I felt it was delicious

Why was it delicious?

Is it because a person made it?

I do not know if it was actually delicious

But anyway it was delicious

And then that cake is in the refrigerator

I’m happy.

I can eat delicious cake with confidence

That always occupied my head

Desire to eat gradually decreases little by little

We can start affording mind

And when you notice it

Like before I get sick

I was looking forward to “snack time”

Sometimes my feelings have turned positive

In a new land seriously low-sugar confectionery shop

I decided to start with a couple

When I opened it soon

Daunting phrase such as low carbohydrate is unusual

Sugar limitation was also booming

Several requests for coverage came.

I appreciate it.

But

Towards the world

There is resistance to speaking that I am diabetic

I was very disliked to receive the interview

I do not know whether I know such inside of my heart

My husband has decided to go on and on

After all

I got some coverage

It was later published in the newspaper

Where aired on television

Many people came to the shop unexpectedly

What surprised me most

There are a lot of people who are waiting for meals and restraining sweet things

Everyone was holding stress

We make a cake

delicious

If this is safe to eat

Say that

I am eating with a smile

That sort of thing was spreading in front of me

The cake that my husband made made me a chance

I was convinced that I had lost

It was able to regain “snack time”

And

To be sick

In what was conveyed without hiding to people

Diabetes gradually changes within me

Positively positively

To live

It has become possible to do

And this

Not only for me but also for visitors to the store

I will bring about change

One day

I saw the television broadcasting

A woman came to visit

As women see their expression dark and listen to the story

I just got the same type 1 diabetes as myself

It seems that the trouble will not run out

Being visited several times

I began to worry about being something

At one time

It is to buy a lot of cake

she is

“I met my shop and my life was saved.”

In fact it depends on the cake

To turn my eyes away from the reality of illness

I felt that it might be a means

One time she is

If you think about sickness for a long time

Because I feel depressed

When I traveled alone I felt a little clearer

Listen to me talking about it

The past self who ran away from illness and she overlapped

How can I solve her troubles?

I began to think

After that I visited again many times

Over the course of conversations

A change has appeared in her

I made up my makeup and started to wear beautiful color clothes

I was worried

The number of cakes purchased also decreased

As I gradually began seeing smiles

I told her about that

She

“Even with the same illness my wife will see a smiling face shining and I can laugh here.”

Listen to that I told you so

I was relieved

What I can do

It is not to solve her troubles

Through casual conversation through the counter

I feel that life can be enjoyed even in diabetes

You might just be okay to have a delicious cake at ease

It was noticed

Time to enjoy talking with delicious coffee and cake

This is my favorite.

It was nothing but a “snack time”

I noticed this and I acted out

Similarly type 1 diabetes suddenly developed

It seemed to have anxiety and loneliness

I invited another woman’s woman to our “snack time”

I am glad to come

Talk a lot

I got back to smile than I came

Then two people came to come to the shop together

At one time two people

In the store here

I can talk about disease siblingly

He told me there was a sense of security to empathize with

I noticed that I was not alone in my affliction

People who have the same troubles are connected

Places where feelings can be positive

A role like that salon

Our shop was able to carry it

It will be a year after opening

The reasons for the customers who come to the shop are various

I was delighted that the master who restricted meals was delicious

A wife who comes over and repeated many times

For diabetic grandpa

A grandson who came to buy a cake that everyone can celebrate

Sitting at the counter

Some people will reveal feelings to us

Long time ago

The low-sugar cake I had eaten without me was

Change myself

Now

Make people happy

It even gave me hope

I will continue to many more people

Even with meal restrictions

I would like to tell you that there is a way to enjoy “snack time”

I

Initially at the onset of diabetes

Diabetes

The accompanying meal restriction

I thought that it was anyway negative

I was suffering

I think that I am convinced without permission

I think that it is surprisingly large

Because the surroundings say so

Because it is common sense

But maybe

It may be different meaning to me

I noticed that

When I act

Things that I had never thought of

It may happen around ourselves

And

It is very painful to have trouble alone by one person

So if

If someone is suffering from the same circumstances as myself

Let’s invite you to “snack time”

With delicious drinks

While enjoying sweets

Share within the heart

If I can accept it

Together step forward

I think that I can take a step forward

With my smile

People who come to the shop together

Just as it turned out to be a smile

(applause)

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