Mad parents

[uart]

Sorry pressed send too soon.
I was at the hospital today and asked my dsn about low carbing, she refered me to the eat well plate but from what I have read on here that isn't the answer. I respect my dsn as everything that she has told me to do has worked well. I think they are intelligent people but I am starting to wonder as they don't seem to make any effort to help themselves, they just moan.

Maybe they've tried dieting and gotten nowhere in the past, and now are perhaps feeling pretty hopeless about their current state of health. My personal experience is that it can be incredibly difficult to lose weight on the regular "eat well plate" type of diet if you're very insulin resistant. LCHF seems particularly useful with regard to weight loss in the case of insulin resistance.

BTW. Can you tell us what diabetes medications your parents currently taking. Some T2 medications like glicazide can make it hard to lose weight.

 

[JTL]

I know a couple in their seventies.
Husband with diabetes both not really interested.
Both reasonably intelligent people.
Oh I take the tablets what more do they want is the general attitude.
To say it's not about what they want it's what the patient the person with the illness wants .... and needs seems to bring up a brick wall of apathy and dare I say ignorance.
Ignorance by choice.
They don't want to change the habits of a lifetime.
They can't be bothered with all that stuff.
These are intelligent loving caring people who would pull out all the stops to help anyone who was ill including giving them advice.
Since they retired they have become soap watching couch potatoes who might potter around the garden weather permitting but prefer to pay someone else to mow the lawn .... they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves but .... it's all to much effort.
They shop cook clean have their grandchildren round.
They are alive and enjoying being alive but change .... no chance.
I might try scare tactics one of these days with the worst possible diabetic stories I can come across and print off.
I'm being serious.
She's 69 or seventy he's 73 and they are reasonably fit and healthy.

 

[Kingsland]

I would like a list of 'What to Eat' that I could print out and put on the kitchen wall. I've made one up myself but it doesn't seem to carry the 'authority' of one thats genuinely come from an official source. Is there such a thing that could be printed off and is easy to read? You might just try handing it over to your parents and see if they at least take notice of some of it ? Half a loaf is better than no bread - as they say (sorry inappropriate food source).