If everyone knows I am diabetic and out of control why do they buy me so much chocolate for Christmas, are they trying to kill me? I have a big box of thorntons in front of me right now left by someone that just gone to bed. Incidentally a member of my family worked for Stoerk marketing and had unlimited supply of free chocs and sweets like bendicks and wetheralls.
Right - I'm on my way round to your house, shall we 'pig out' together? Won't feel as guilty then with someone else doing it...... Time I went to my bed, have enjoyed our banter. Good Night. William.
I had a bad day yesterday eating all day but on the bright side I managed to only eat loads of chicken and my LC baking so for.me that is a bit of a.milestone as I usually go for biscuits ect. @Dougie22 I know what you mean about being stuck around home, I usually get unstuck in the weekends when Im around home more. Dont despair about going off track it happens and unfortunately usually more often than we would like but just get yourself on track when you can.
My bg levels have gone crazy as I the stress of Xmas have affected my mood and depression. I know I need to get my head sorted before I can get my diabetes back under control. !!!
I'm afraid I don't cook. My wife is pretty sympathetic and a very good cook and I would be fine if I only ate what she gives me! I can't see her doing her own bread or biscuits anytime soon. I did have a bit of a dalliance with Jenny Ruhl's whey pancakes at one stage, made from protein powder. To be honest it was just too much hassle and, eventually, the remains of the big bag of protein powder went in the bin. I do well when I maintain my food diary (I use Myfitnesspal.com as it makes life easy with a good app and barcode scanning). The problem comes when you've had a meal out, a carry-out, dinner at a friends, or a dish that you can't easily point, and you miss the readings for the day. You need to just put it behind you and start again next day but it is hard not to give up for a few days. I also use the Mapmywalk app which monitors how far you've gone and interfaces seamlessly with Myfitnesspal.com. Both take a little experimenting before they become easier to use but I find them worthwhile. AS I've said before though, my biggest problems are when I've lapsed and gone of the rails when I wont record anything at all. That was the case through most of 2015.
Don't feel disheartened Dougie22, I would imagine we have all lapsed from time to time.
Forget 2015 and your lapse and start fresh. Think positive and you will conquer. We are
all here for you if you feel another lapse is upon you. Follow the LCHF. Remember it isn't
another diet, it's a lifestyle change, it's forever.
Great to see you are back on track, i know its definately a bumpy road. Its great that your BS is starting to come down, its all progress. Hopefully you will enjoy the course, I went on a similar one when I was diagnosed and yes our dietician was a skinny young girl as well and in the breaks they fed us little snacks like wholegrain toast and muesli with yoghurt.
I got an email the other day from Louise of the Low Carb programme which was interesting. I've always said that my strategy was moderate carb for now, but I might have to review that if I can't get my BS down to reasonable letters. The numbers make interesting reading though:
1. Low carb forum defines low carb as 120-150g of carb per day (I thought it would be lower)
2. NHS think low carb is below 313g per day for men (250g fro women)
3. When eating well, I'm hovering around 200g per day (better than I would have thought)
I get this figure as a by product of using the Myfitnesspal app as my food diary so they are reasonably accurate and show me that I'm not as far away from low carbing as I thought. Still have muesli, couple of slices of bread at lunch, and a portion of potato or rice in my diet, as well as using plain biscuits (gingernuts, oaties,etc.) as treats so there's some room yet for manoeuvre if I need to cut back further.
Good on you for sticking to it. I have just started intermittent fasting and Im finding it easier than I thought and Im sticking to under 20 gr carbs per day easy so thats good. Keep up the positivity and fingers crossed, hopefully you will find you have lost a.bit of weight at your meeting, its always a great motivator to see the numbers going down. Have a good day
forgot to take my tablets this morning, plus I had pizza for lunch and a bottle of excellent red wine, wonderful Went to have supper and discovered my bs was 22, so I am eating plain freshly cooked popcorn and finishing up the wine. As you say monday morning is a good time to restart, as long as the bottle is emptyOK. Made it to Sunday night and still staying within my eating guidelines. Approximately 1800 calories and 200g carb per day. This is the first time in a long time (at least a year) that I've managed to stay with it for seven days straight. Attending "Waist Winners" tomorrow and expecting my weight to have come down a little and my two hour BS tonight was 8.9, the best it's been for a while. This despite an awkward mid afternoon funeral tea on Friday.
How are rest of you doing? Staying away from the binging or yet to get back on the wagon? Monday morning is a good time for a restart!
goodluck!I'm a serial relapser and this time I've ended up at my highest weight ever and **** bg readings that put me in t2 category.
But I'm back now and reforming good habits and more importantly determined not to let this get the better of me.
I'm facing the scary stuff tomorrow A blood test!!
The prob with diabetes is that it's s slow killer do we can start again tomorrow but it can't perpetuate.
Let's do it all together!
D x
forgot to take my tablets this morning, plus I had pizza for lunch and a bottle of excellent red wine, wonderful Went to have supper and discovered my bs was 22, so I am eating plain freshly cooked popcorn and finishing up the wine. As you say monday morning is a good time to restart, as long as the bottle is empty
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