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Having trouble keeping to diabetic lifestyle

sue@ssh

sue@ssh

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Location
Northern Counties
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Well, I have a very good reason for this. I have been diagnosed with fairly low grade breast cancer and undergone a mastectomy in August. Now I need to keep up calcium content as well as try to follow Slimming World guidelines on foods.

I admit to going off the rails, if I crave chocolate I eat chocolate, and pastry. The one item in should never have, yes, I know. My meds make me fantastically hungry, and nauseous at the same time - life is difficult!

Anyone here who can snap me back into a positive frame of mind re the diet? I am now weighing 11st5lbs from a high of 13st2lbs back in mid January.
 
Wow you've lost 2 and half stone since January , well done. Im not surprised you are going through a comfort eating phase. Maybe now is the time to take the diabetes in hand:)
 
Sorry to hear about your recent problems Sue.

As regards to the chocolate cravings, if you buy some dark chocolate with a high cocoa content this will satisfy your cravings, Aldi do one that is called Moser Roth, it's 85% dark chocolate that contains 5 individual bars, each bar has around 4g of carbs.
 
Hi sue. sorry to hear of your problems. However I suspect you Know what you need to do and don't need us telling you.
 
Hi sue , you have been through a lot , sorry to,hear that ...
Yes you can do,anything you want , I expect we all fall off the rails sometimes , we may not be brave enough to,admit it though ...
Calm confidence and courage ...
Put I am before all of those words and go,for it ...

Wow what a weight loss , that is a whole small,person ....brill ...
You have lost the weight of a mini human being ....not easy ...so,in a way you have just done the harder part ....
You need a new plan of action now ....good luck ...you can do,it ...best wishes ....Kat :cat:
 
LOL, just the pick-me-up I needed everyone, thanks. I had forgotten all about the MoserRoth choc, will have to get some.

I am more worried about what the increased milk intake is doing to my BS levels, I have a clinic visit 22 October. I am afraid the gluttony and the vomitting is playing havoc with my levels, but it cant be helped. I have been told it can take up to three months for the side effects of the new meds to calm down - that is too far away still.

I sat and ate carrot batons last night, without the creamy dip, how's that for being good!
 
Hi Sue, I was diagnosed with an aggressive BC back in August 2013 and was told in January this year after ending up in hospital with Neutropenia, Tachycardia, sky high blood pressure, septicaemia and a temperature of 41 following my final chemotherapy, that my blood sugar was 22 and I was diabetic! they don't tell you that this is yet another possible side effect of chemotherapy, the gift that keeps on giving! I came very close to popping my clogs.

However!, like you, I've shed about 10 kilos since January on a LCHF diet, I don't know if your BC is Oestrogen positive, but if it is, avoid replacing milk in your diet with soy milk as it contains an oestrogen mimic. I have found the secret for me is to say to myself I can actually have anything I want, because that stops me craving for something I cant have, I then find I don't actually want it as badly as I thought I did! I don't DENY myself anything, but I don't then feel the craving. Except for apples, I still find myself going off the rails for a nice Pink Lady....

I understand perfectly what you mean about the drugs, the nausea and vomiting, followed by the munchies, give yourself time and this will all settle, and you will find yourself much better able to concentrate on the wellness aspect for both your BC and your diabetes, I've found I actually enjoy the freedom to have bacon and eggs in a morning without feeling guilty! :-) PM me if you want?
 
Hi Sue,

I'm another breast cancer victim and fully understand where you are coming from. I was diagnosed with an aggressive BC in December 2012 but am now out of the long tunnel, in remission, and feeling very well and healthy. I wasn't diabetic when I was diagnosed. That happened 4 days after my first annual check up, which was clear. However, I remain convinced to this day that the treatment is what gave me diabetes. That, plus all the comfort eating. Chemo makes all food taste foul, so the only way to combat it was to smother everything in sugar or salt. Plus drinking gallons of Lucozade for energy, and gallons of Cranberry juice to ward off UTIs and eating bananas several times a day.

I do wonder why you have to drink milk? I understand calcium levels have to be kept up, but there is calcium in other foods that are diabetic friendly, such as full fat yogurts and especially cheese. My calcium levels are spot on, and I don't drink milk. Also, shouldn't you be prescribed calcium tablets?

Good luck, and don't despair. You can control this.
 
Dear Sue

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Maintaining a good diabetic lifestyle in order to keep this disease of ours under control is never easy at the best of times. Most of us, myself included, have fallen off that wagon at some point or other and that without having to content with cancer and chemo at the same time.

At least you had a good excuse for going off the rails! :-)

I expect that with having to deal with a more immediately life threatening condition such as cancer, it is not surprising that diabetes became relatively less important to you. Not too mention having to put up with the effects of the chemo. So do not be too harsh on yourself.

Get yourself well and try your best.

Diabetes may not be as immediately life threatening as cancer but long term it can be just as damaging if left uncontrolled. So at some point, when you are ready, it is important to climb back on that wagon.

This forum has helped me tremendously to climb back on my own personal wagon, through the support and encouragement of its members but also through the focus that just participating here seems to bring to me. I hope you will find it just as useful and effective.

Wishing you the best

Pavlos
 
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