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Keeping focused?

Shirley64

Shirley64

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Morning All

I have been really focused but the last few weeks I've found I've been eating more carbs than i have been I've seen my numbers go up into 6. Something in the morning when i had been getting 5. Something how do you keep focused long term?
 
I completely understand how this can happen. For me the lower carb intake the less I crave so I aim for very low carb. I also use sweeteners so have options other than high carb level options.

I find it useful to have things in the house that are my go to low carb options. That includes meals but also snacks. The oddest thing I have is diet jelly frozen. For me the crunchy texture is something I appreciate and the time it takes me to eat it means the craving has usually gone. I add cream also.

Good luck.
 
Know your personality so you can work with it not against it. For instance, I can't do small amounts of diabetic-unfriendly food - for me it's no blueberries or all the blueberries! Others can quite happily stop at 3 or 4 blueberries. (blueberries just used as an example). In my ideal world there would be no carby/sugary food in the house, but I have a lean non-diabetic husband who can eat junk food until Hell freezes over, with no detrimental effect, so we have a house full of it. I deal with that by seeing it as His not Mine, and he is kind enough to keep it where I can't see it or reach it.. So if you live alone, it's simple enough to never buy carby food, but if your family likes it, then maybe you work with them so you can't be tempted by it. Because really you are being tempted by poison. Others of us cope well with substitutes that are less carby and sugary, and maybe you are one of those. Are you a "rebel" in that you only have to be told you can't have something to really want that something and not rest until you have some? Might you see eating/drinking something unsuitable as bucking the system and point-scoring? (these are comments not criticisms).

So - analyse why certain foodstuffs rock your resolution, come back here to discuss, and we all have various tips and wrinkles that have helped us and may help you.
 
Thanks guys for your responses. I think Outlier is right I want to have what I'm not meant to.

I know i am better at not having it then having a little bit. I do crave chips and chocolate some days
 
Shirley64 said:
I do crave chips and chocolate some days
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Can't help with the chips but 95% or ((5 chocolate is both low carb and difficult to eat more than a couple of squares of... (Note I say difficult but not impossible. :)).
 
I found it was actually the salt and oil that made up a huge part of the crisp/chip appeal. Once I started adding salt (!!!!) to my food (having previously believed the nonsense about low salt being Good For Us) and increasing healthy fats (olive oil, butter, meat fat, oily fish) crisps and chips completely lost their appeal.
 
VashtiB said:
I completely understand how this can happen. For me the lower carb intake the less I crave so I aim for very low carb. I also use sweeteners so have options other than high carb level options.

I find it useful to have things in the house that are my go to low carb options. That includes meals but also snacks. The oddest thing I have is diet jelly frozen. For me the crunchy texture is something I appreciate and the time it takes me to eat it means the craving has usually gone. I add cream also.

Good luck.
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Love the sound of that
 
bulkbiker said:
Just think about saving your eyes and toes?
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I really do rhink of them. I remember being in hospital and in the same ward was a lady that has lost a foot and they were trying to save the other one. I wasn't diabetic at the time but it stayed with me.
 
Outlier said:
I found it was actually the salt and oil that made up a huge part of the crisp/chip appeal. Once I started adding salt (!!!!) to my food (having previously believed the nonsense about low salt being Good For Us) and increasing healthy fats (olive oil, butter, meat fat, oily fish) crisps and chips completely lost their appeal.
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You're right it is the salt apart from boiled egg chips is the only thing I add salt to.
 
I think what I need to help keep me on track is a diabetic buddy. Not sure of the best way to find one. Just someone who understands to message and encourage each other The forum is great but don't always want to make things public.
 
Shirley64 said:
I think what I need to help keep me on track is a diabetic buddy. Not sure of the best way to find one. Just someone who understands to message and encourage each other The forum is great but don't always want to make things public.
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Type 2 is very prevalent. You'd be surprised how many people you know might have it and don't talk about it. If you're comfortable doing so and make it known you have it, you'll likely find people start to share with you.

I've had two or three work colleagues approach me privately for advice and support - I bored everyone for England while we were still very office-based, so it was definitely no secret!
 
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Since I made my diagnosis public I find I get lots of support, but privately I also support 6 people who have sidled up to me and said "me too, but don't tell anyone"

I think they are waiting to announce success before they come clean, but i wish they would go public. Its so much easier.
Just last night I was on a girls night out and because they knew I should avoid carbs no one pushed me to order a pudding, and when I got a cheese plate instead, they all tucked in with me. Most people are just interested to learn, and be ready for when it comes to them!
Diabetes is nothing to be ashamed of. It isn't contagious, and we didn't cause it. Weight gain is a symptom of it, not a cause
 
What lovely friends! You must be an equally lovely person to have them.

I can understand why people don't want to go public, especially in a work environment, where any kind of illness counts against you. And I agree there is this pervasive notion that we caused our own illness. So it's a delight to be reminded that plenty of more perceptive people exist.
 
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