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Out of control

J

junemc153

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Hi all,

This is my first post although I do keep in touch with the forums.

I was diagnosed T2 about 12 months ago and have had success with controlling my bs with diet - in fact is is now the lowest reading I have ever had. But during the past 4 weeks I seem to have hit a brick wall - I have started wanting to eat anything and everything that I shouldnt and have given in on quite a few occasions.

Its really getting me down. I have done so well and dont want to end up taking medication until I absolutely have to. Has anybode else had a similar experience and what did you do to get over it?

J
 
Hi June, welcome.

You have done well until recently so no reason why you can't get back on track. What have your HbA1c numbers been like?
 
I think a lot of people come to this. You just have to accept you've had a blip and do your best to get back on track.

It tends to happen to me when I ease up on keeping a food diary on My Fitness Pal. I begin to think "I've got the hang of this now" and decide I don't need to go through the time consuming process of logging all my food. Then it starts to slip and I conveniently 'forget' some stuff I've had or I go into willfully self-destruct mode and eat something I really don't need and which is certainly going to raise my BS (like a Waitrose iced yum yum!). Well, once you've done that sort of damage how much worse can it be to have something else (or so my warped brain tells me) and so begins a binge. This might just be me - but I doubt it is.

So, what I have to do to get it back is to go back to good old MFP and fill in my food diary, combined with testing my BS more (I'm only prescribed strips to test a couple of times a week). Seeing my BS well-controlled motivates me to eat better, but I still slip again. The thing is the slips get further apart as eating a low carb diet becomes more every day, and I now give myself snack treats such as slices of salami, nuts, slices of cheese, which seem to satisfy my desire to have something.

After years of being a binge eater, with added in huge meals, I am gradually turning into a low carb snacker - with no hunger and will often skip a proper mealtime in favour of a series of small snacks.
 
junemc153 said:
I have done so well and dont want to end up taking medication until I absolutely have to.

J
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PS I would replace the 'until' with 'unless'. With good management there's no reason this should be a downward slope into more medication, or even any medication.
 
We all fall off the wagon occasionally, but we can all get back on again. Personally, my meter is what keeps me getting back on the straight and narrow, it quickly lets me know that I am doing the wrong thing and seeing the numbers higher than I know they should be normally gets me sorted. ( maybe I shouldn't mention yesterday's slow decline, a bit of leeway at lunch, then friends over, cake offered, and eaten even though I knew I shouldn't and a reading BEFORE tea of 11.1).

Today is a new day and a new chance to start again, for both of us.

Good luck and believe in yourself, you can do it.
 
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