Need help staying on track

[searley]

Hi

It's almost a year since starting on insulin, and in general I have been quite well behaved, doing my blood tests and taking my insulin and doing my best to keep my BG levels from going too high..

I don't know what it is, but the last month or so I seem just not to care so much, it's not unusual if I skip my lunch time test and injection, and sometimes with my evening one aswell.. I do take my slow acting at night 99% of the time.

The worst thing is, I have found myself just eating, the worst was when I went shopping recently and bought a cheese cake, and found by the end of the day that I had eaten it all.. I know it's wrong but just can't seem to keep on track.

I have to have a blood test in 2 weeks, and then a few days after that is my appointment with my consultant, and I'm sure my HBA1C will have slipped in the wrong direction.

I know if I carry on like this that I am slowly killing myself, but I don't know how to get back on track and stay there as part of the problem on the eating front is that it 'comfort eating'

I'd like to hear from people that have gone through the same, and managed to come out the other side and get past it

 

[Fallenstar]

Hi Searley
Sorry to hear you feel a bit bogged down with it all of late, I'm sure we have all been there. I have fallen off the wagon a number of times....in fact it took me a number of years to get on the wagon in the first place with my Diabetes self care/control and I feel that when you are younger you can get away with it a lot more. I suppose that is also true of non diabetics but with us, a unhealthy lifestyle seems to catch up a lot quicker, and we pay higher consequences.

You know what you need to be doing , it is just making the changes and sticking to them day in day out to stay healthy, but you will fall off the wagon from time to time and the longer you have been doing the right things health wise ,the more rotten you will feel for the relapses. That will put you off doing the wrong things for your Diabetes as much as anything else.Don't get down about it, or be hard on yourself

It took me a lot of years living with this Disease to take it seriously. Some of the lessons I learned the hard way and paid for them, but now I feel like, for a number of years anyway, not only have I been "on the wagon",I've been driving it and am in control at last....You'll get there kid. There is no better saying than tomorrow is another day, when you have had a bad day, and we all have them. This disease really is about one day at a time .

That's a whole lot of post about a whole load of Wagons :lol: :lol: KEEP TRUCKING :lol: Sorry...I've given myself a slap now :wink: :lol:

 

[Gappy]

I keep on track by allowing myself a day off each week, my diabetic nurse agrees (lightheartedly) that it's a 6 day a week illness so I can have saturdays off! A doctor told me life is for living enjoy it and not to obsess about things, I would add that I'm totally reckless and my results are good, lost just over 2 and half stone in about 4 months and last readings were 5.8 and 5.9. I find I'm more likely to be good knowing it means I can relax at the weekend-works for me anyway!

 

[searley]

Hi

I don't know why I have found it hard the last few weeks, I think I was ok until I had problems with the insulin I was on, and it took a while to get prescribed a different type.

I guess I will have to try to aim for something like 6 good days, and Sunday's off that would be a start

 

[Fallenstar]

Glad you have been able to pin point it Searly, sometimes this is most of the battle.

Good aproach having a treat day. It's not what we do occasionally that matters, it's what we do everyday that counts in the long haul, so if it works for you and you find the rest of the week is good and achievable then that is great.

I used to do the one day a week blow out! But I found that because I had to hike my Bolus up it did have a knock on effect for a day or so afterwards and I felt rough because of this ,but I'm insulin and carb sensitive now and just can't do these things anymore :roll:

well I have made up for it over the years I suppose, it may well work fine for you with your insulin levels with no knock on effect, I hope so because it is nice to throw caution to the wind with your diet every week....hope you find a balance I'm sure you will.

all the best