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<blockquote data-quote="ChocFish" data-source="post: 18312" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>Hello and welcome to the forum and congratulations on giving up smoking, well done!!! I know that this is not an easy thing to do and cravings last for quite some time, but now you have gone this far it is not worth going back to smoking is it, so try and just take it one day at a time and be proud of your achievements.</p><p>It sounds very much that you are a very strong, determined person and that you are being too hard on yourself. Give yourself credit for what you have achieved so far, being diabetic, giving up smoking, a single parent, geeezus I would just cave in I think, you certainly have a lot going on there and coping with most of it all on your own too. You must try and do nice and good things for yourself too, you have deprived yourself of cigarettes, so treat yourself in other ways instead, do something nice for yourself as a reward for YOU for a change, I bet you havent done anything like that for ages, always being there for others, huh?</p><p>Talk about your diabetes with your children, tell them that you really dont want to be so grumpy with them but that sometimes you just feel overwhelmed and so alone and also scared, your children will understand and do their bit to support you, thats what families are all about isnt it, the children will learn from this, become more considerate and learn that its ok to lean on others for a bit of support now and then.</p><p>Try and cut out junk food and sweets and savouries as much as you can, dont do anything drastic with your diet, just see how you can make some improvements here and there, read here in the forum what people do in regards to their diet, do you have a meter and test strips, do you test regularly at all? If you change your diet then do it s-l-o-w-l-y, or else you will say 'well stuff this for a lark, I gave up smoking, yeah, now I am supposed to give up the food that I enjoy, I have no pleasures left' - so slowly start replacing these not so good snacks with healthier options, a few nuts (though not too many) and maybe some low carb fruits or a nice yogurt, sugar free, (you can sweeten it or add a bit of fruit and sprinkle with cinnamon) instead and see how that goes, and take it from there. If you go low carb, again do it slowly, cutting them out overnight is a bit of a shock to the system, mentally actually, and do get hold of Dr Bernstein's book, Diabetes Solution, your library should have a copy or would order it for you.</p><p>If you are stuck in a bit of a rut see if there are any activities out there in your local area that may be of interest to you,a short college course, exercise class, anything really and meet new people, either make it time for you, we all need some 'me' time or as a family, do new things, that can help too in taking your mind off things like smoking and comfort eating.</p><p>And just dont feel alone in all of this, come here to the forum and ask questions and talk about your feelings and fears and when things are good too, share it with us, we are all there for each other.</p><p></p><p>All the best</p><p></p><p>Karen x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChocFish, post: 18312, member: 981"] Hello and welcome to the forum and congratulations on giving up smoking, well done!!! I know that this is not an easy thing to do and cravings last for quite some time, but now you have gone this far it is not worth going back to smoking is it, so try and just take it one day at a time and be proud of your achievements. It sounds very much that you are a very strong, determined person and that you are being too hard on yourself. Give yourself credit for what you have achieved so far, being diabetic, giving up smoking, a single parent, geeezus I would just cave in I think, you certainly have a lot going on there and coping with most of it all on your own too. You must try and do nice and good things for yourself too, you have deprived yourself of cigarettes, so treat yourself in other ways instead, do something nice for yourself as a reward for YOU for a change, I bet you havent done anything like that for ages, always being there for others, huh? Talk about your diabetes with your children, tell them that you really dont want to be so grumpy with them but that sometimes you just feel overwhelmed and so alone and also scared, your children will understand and do their bit to support you, thats what families are all about isnt it, the children will learn from this, become more considerate and learn that its ok to lean on others for a bit of support now and then. Try and cut out junk food and sweets and savouries as much as you can, dont do anything drastic with your diet, just see how you can make some improvements here and there, read here in the forum what people do in regards to their diet, do you have a meter and test strips, do you test regularly at all? If you change your diet then do it s-l-o-w-l-y, or else you will say 'well stuff this for a lark, I gave up smoking, yeah, now I am supposed to give up the food that I enjoy, I have no pleasures left' - so slowly start replacing these not so good snacks with healthier options, a few nuts (though not too many) and maybe some low carb fruits or a nice yogurt, sugar free, (you can sweeten it or add a bit of fruit and sprinkle with cinnamon) instead and see how that goes, and take it from there. If you go low carb, again do it slowly, cutting them out overnight is a bit of a shock to the system, mentally actually, and do get hold of Dr Bernstein's book, Diabetes Solution, your library should have a copy or would order it for you. If you are stuck in a bit of a rut see if there are any activities out there in your local area that may be of interest to you,a short college course, exercise class, anything really and meet new people, either make it time for you, we all need some 'me' time or as a family, do new things, that can help too in taking your mind off things like smoking and comfort eating. And just dont feel alone in all of this, come here to the forum and ask questions and talk about your feelings and fears and when things are good too, share it with us, we are all there for each other. All the best Karen x [/QUOTE]
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