Lost the plot

Maybe you're trying too hard? Make a plan that you know you can keep, then it should be easier to manage. Much better to go slow and steady than fast and fall off the wagon - you'll actually get there much quicker in the end. I used to do this with my meter - set a myself relatively easy target and when I could maintain it, moved the goal posts a bit further.

I think of my low carbing as a lifestyle change too and not a I-have-to-do-it-to-fix-things-diet. Lifestyle is nicer and more comfortable to live with than a dreaded diet.

Robbity

I used to be like that but I'm trying hard to break the pattern. It isn't easy when tiredness or stress strike! I do cave from time to time but I get back on the horse. I'm trying hard to resist this time because I feel I've been granted a reprieve with my recent HbA1c, which could have been a lot worse given that I've been pre-diabetic for a couple of years already. I don't want to screw it up and also feel like I don't want to let the good folks on this site down. I'm not being judgy towards you, I hope I don't come across that way. I have a terrible history with food: chips with everything, six doughnuts in one sitting, whole tubs of ice cream, sorbet, family-sized chocolate bars, everything bad in huge quantities. It can't go on, so I try to summon some mental strength. But it isn't easy, that's for sure!

Stress, long work hours, and deadlines take me down. Not checking my blood glucose at least a couple of times a day, not walking every day or other day, takes away my motivation.

So...I try to pace myself and stay ahead of deadlines. I give myself down time weekly. If I've got a long day ahead of me, I try to think ahead the night before or the morning of so I have a working plan to keep me fed with good foods.

When I get out of the habit of checking my blood glucose, I'm at risk for eating...chocolate covered nuts, too many, a definite weakness. So at first I might just check my blood glucose once a day, then build from there.

As for walking. If I can't get out and walk, I might do something physical around the house or office just to get me standing and moving, then try even harder the next day to get in a walk.

I too think of this way of eating as a lifestyle. It's gets easier with practice. (It also helps to stock the kitchen with healthy foods, to get rid of the unhealthy stuff).

Galja said:

Dear Roastbeef,

Your nick is a good thing to eat. Wish I had a big slab of it to slow roast over night, say an 8 to 12 hour low and slow, wrapped in sage and mint stems - which I saw and dry from the summer - with a few red onions slice on top maybe some roasting garlic cloves, maybe this, maybe that herb or rub, a little sea salt, a bit of ground coriander, pepper flakes, whatever, wrap it in a big ole piece of parchment, wrap it again in foil, put off eating everything else until that low and slow is ready, fork tender.

Alas, am ill, too ill to go and find soemthing like that.

Roast beef! gimme a break, I just had pea soup

Waaaaaah

Oh, and by the way, I would prefer to butcher that baby myself

Shutting up now

On Clean Tuesday for Orthodox folks, shouldn't even be bringing my mind around to

roast beef!

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Sounds very very nice and I'm sorry that you're unable to find it for yourself. I hope it's only temporary x

Hi @lindiloo62

Losing the plot has become a regular feature for me not unlike PMT, however all we can do is what we can do, so pick yourself up and do what you can do.

The support here is great, we are all here for each other.

Good luck

@lindiloo62 you are so not alone! I first learned about low carbing years ago - long before my diagnosis and to be honest although I can say I managed to stay on it for a while, after a while the old habits kicked in and in kept all the 'bad' stuff again. It wasn't until I found paleo a couple of years ago and saw the health benefits (in my own life - I promise that story another day) that I found the ability to stay away from things as a year on paleo actually did reeducate my taste buds much better than simply low carbing. However just yesterday I was walking around the supermarkets trying to resist the temptation to buy sugary unhealthy foods (I eventually managed it by remembering I carry some in the car lol). My point though is that we all struggle and we're here to support each other through such times.