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oh I love my new way of life now I have arrived but the process was troublesome. I am looking forward now as I feel I have my life in place after years of not feeling too well , I have been given a second chance. I am in control now. so many blogs to inspire us to eat well. for me the health transformation has been an eating transformation, but it's easy now. now to teach my children , I must let them out of the house, funny I'm more thinking about what they are eating out than alcohol . I need to get a bit of perspective, hopefully that will come.
Thanks for that I will be very vigilant with my health now as any sign of imbalance I will be straight at the Drs again and get tested, my mum suffered so I have seen and lived it all with her. I will not go back to how I was eating and living and will do my best to look after myself, but I hear what your saying. I am watching my body too. I don't drink alcohol only water and I never put off eating as when I used to get stressed I didn't eat, I always eat breakfast now that was differ cult, but I nearly stick each day to the same things to eat and I'm not about to mix it up. Thanks again.Lyn, I would urge you to shun the feeling you "have arrived". In my experience and observation and over the years, those who think they have "it" licked (whichever "it" you choose to apply it to - career, sporting prowess or metabolic syndrome, through to full blown T2, it doesn't matter) stand a much greater chance of running into issues along the line, when confidence in their own self-belief over-rides signs and clues something is amiss.
Focusing on past and current members of this forum (as opposed to any other options I threw into the mix), there is a decent percentage of members who have declared them fixed, and in no need of further support, nor feel the need to stay in the forum, who find themselves re-entering through the revolving door to start all over again, getting back on track. So often they cite having given up testing, or having begun to eat "just a bit more x", and the sneaky, pesky metabolic syndrome/diabetes sneaks back into evidence; whether by symptoms or routine, annual HbA1c.
I was removed from the Diabetes Register almost 2 years ago, and of course, I am delighted with how I have got to that point, and maintained that position, and blood results, but whilst I sometimes expressed myself as resolved, I don't consider that's it. I still watch what I eat, although much of that has become quite instinctive by now. I still test my bloods, and I still weigh myself regularly and check my visceral fat levels to ensure things aren't creeping into areas I need to avoid.
Clearly, it's up to you how you choose to view yourself, but for me, I'll stick with a work in progress, because that's what it is, for me.
I even think some countries have seen a recent (past 10 years) decrease in the consumption of carbs but not a decrease but an increase in the obesity population.
They are still eating too many carbs then.
They are still eating too many carbs then.
Be interesting to see a graph of saturated fat intake compared with industrial seed/"vegetable" oil. I think the trend is down for the first and massive increase for the second, yet we keep being told they are "healthy" fats. Canola oil, soy bean oil, cotton seed oil and the many others that oxidise in cooking and are the oils used in processed and fast foods. Ugh
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