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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 409407" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>It's a familiar story I'm afraid. My wife and her boss are both biomedical scientists and he is also married to one. He was diagnosed with type 2 last year and has now moved from metformin to something stronger and fully expects to end up on insulin. He already has lots of problems with his feet and eyes but he just eats the same as before. He is aware but just accepts it as a progressive illness.</p><p></p><p>His wife talks to mine and is told of the sort of things I eat. At the moment this is similar to what you are eating. They are all clued up individuals in as good a place as you would want for seeing the effects of not controlling it. Yet, people find it hard to make the necessary changes. I have found it easy but I have a few advantages. Firstly I work from home and have time and secondly, I love learning to cook. By being at home, I can also organise things around exercising, even if I am mowing the lawn or cutting the hedge. It works because I can create a routine, something you slot into, without thinking. It becomes sort of automatic. Otherwise, it is all too easy to stay in the old routine. Something more than just snapping out of it is required. He won't snap out of his old ways until there is something he enjoys to replace his old habits. You have to find that first. He has to have something to look forward to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 409407, member: 55568"] It's a familiar story I'm afraid. My wife and her boss are both biomedical scientists and he is also married to one. He was diagnosed with type 2 last year and has now moved from metformin to something stronger and fully expects to end up on insulin. He already has lots of problems with his feet and eyes but he just eats the same as before. He is aware but just accepts it as a progressive illness. His wife talks to mine and is told of the sort of things I eat. At the moment this is similar to what you are eating. They are all clued up individuals in as good a place as you would want for seeing the effects of not controlling it. Yet, people find it hard to make the necessary changes. I have found it easy but I have a few advantages. Firstly I work from home and have time and secondly, I love learning to cook. By being at home, I can also organise things around exercising, even if I am mowing the lawn or cutting the hedge. It works because I can create a routine, something you slot into, without thinking. It becomes sort of automatic. Otherwise, it is all too easy to stay in the old routine. Something more than just snapping out of it is required. He won't snap out of his old ways until there is something he enjoys to replace his old habits. You have to find that first. He has to have something to look forward to. [/QUOTE]
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