Slimming world doesn't usually cater to people with a metabolic condition like diabetes, so maybe not the best way to go far as support goes, unless you feel comfortable not quite following the exact same plan far as carbs go... Or maybe something similar? Who knows what groups are around. A few years ago someone started walking groups for T2's here in the Netherlands, often a DN or GP walks along. Not quite the same, but it's a sort of support system, and there may be something similar available in your area.I'd like to risk asking a stupid question here but for those of you who seem to stay on track what helps you keep motivated to keep going with lowering your blood sugar.
I would love to both lose weight and drop my Hbac1 but I do keep self sabotaging plus I'm the only one in my house with diabetes. One of the things I'm ok with is keeping fit though again I could be fitter.
Admittedly I fall into the camp of being tempted to go to Slimming World, which I've done before but the last time I went I was among the slimmer people and also the only one with diabetes (to the knowledge of the consultant).
I'd value any guidance you have please and thanks.
My motivation is simple. I don't want the range of unpleasant and painful symptoms I had while my BG was out of normal range. That makes it very easy for me. A choice between gout, kidney failure and neuropathy (and all the others) and eating carbs?I'd like to risk asking a stupid question here but for those of you who seem to stay on track what helps you keep motivated to keep going with lowering your blood sugar.
I would love to both lose weight and drop my Hbac1 but I do keep self sabotaging plus I'm the only one in my house with diabetes. One of the things I'm ok with is keeping fit though again I could be fitter.
Admittedly I fall into the camp of being tempted to go to Slimming World, which I've done before but the last time I went I was among the slimmer people and also the only one with diabetes (to the knowledge of the consultant).
I'd value any guidance you have please and thanks.
Gosh you have the same symptoms that my darling late Dad had. This is admittedly one of my motiviating factors as well as my Mum who is now on Insulin.My motivation is simple. I don't want the range of unpleasant and painful symptoms I had while my BG was out of normal range. That makes it very easy for me. A choice between gout, kidney failure and neuropathy (and all the others) and eating carbs?
As a bonus I've lost 90lbs or so and have been feeling better than at any time since the previous century, I suppose.
Had, not have. All gone.Gosh you have the same symptoms that my darling late Dad had. This is admittedly one of my motiviating factors as well as my Mum who is now on Insulin.
Hi Rachox, now this is another great reminder for my squeamish mind. I still can't get my head around how King Henry VIII last wife coped having had to smell that on a daily basis before he passed. Yup I'm fascinated with the Tudor period.I worked in the NHS before retiring, once seen and smelt gangrene in an uncontrolled diabetic, you can’t forget it. So in addition to everything said above I do not want gangrene!
You're right though sorry to read about you and your Grandmother. I never thought I'd go off doughnuts and sticky toffee pudding but I have. It's certainly an ongoing marathon rather than a sprint.Like Rachox I witnessed the effects of uncontrolled diabetes - living with my grandmother in her final years. That was dreadful, and I suspect it could have been avoided which makes it worse.
Do allow yourself to be diabetic - make plans for your safety and comfort, buy things you can eat, make things you can eat - if someone in the house wants things you should not eat, have them look after them, out of the way.
Do cultivate habits you find helpful - once something becomes an entrenched habit it is quite difficult to break, (at least for me) even in the face of temptation, which I never believed would happen.
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