Reply to Thread

Guest, we'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the Diabetes Forum Survey 2025 »

Message: <blockquote data-quote="2131tom" data-source="post: 448971" data-attributes="member: 85280">Don't give up thinking you still might be able to do quite a bit to help yourself and it may be a lot easier if you try coming at it from a few different angles.  The way I see it, this needn't be done all at once.  Anything you can do to drop some weight has to be good, hasn't it?If it helps, for many years I was the archetypal 'good eater' (as my mum would have put it); in reality I was a pig.  I'd be thinking about the next meal before I'd finished the current one, was constantly hungry, couldn't pass up any opportunity to eat, wouldn't 'waste' food by ever discarding it (a trait my mother had drummed into us all in the 50s when we were young) and had a sugar craving about 30 mins after I'd finished every meal.  Although I was never a 'snacker' (small comfort, that!), my weight had inexorably risen over the years to just over 18st 6 weeks ago, which is the heaviest I'd ever been.As I'd done for years, I avoided facing it every which way I could, my latest cop-out being that the current weight gain (about 8lbs) was as a result of giving up smoking in early May this year and the weight was the lesser of the 2 evils.  Even though the craving had gone, by July I was seriously thinking of going back on the cigarettes, as a way of shedding a few pounds,  :crazy: when the diabetes diagnosis intervened.My first thought was to cut out sugar (e.g. 3 spoonsful in my coffees, a tablespoon of it on my breakfast cereal and half a milk chocolate bar [or a full one if my other three-quarters wasn't looking] for my postprandial sweet 'fix'.  That went OK.  Then I decided to miss out some of my regular visits to the pub, substituting a single dry red wine for pints of bitter (up to 5/6 per session if I was being driven home), when I did go.  Then I worked on upping the vegetables in my diet.  Finally, I decided I'd have a go at dropping the carbs.  That seems to be working out OK as well.  Although I started out doing so, I've slipped on upping my exercise levels over the past week or two so I've still got that good intention up my sleeve. I'm not carb-counting (yet) and I've not gone really low but I have lost over a stone since November 1st and that weight loss appears to be continuing.  I am on Metformin which I understand is probably helping  but the interesting thing is I've stopped feeling hungry, my appetite has reduced and I've discovered I don't actually want large meals at the moment or find myself thinking particularly about food.  Although I hadn't noticed it happening, I've also found that the sugar craving I used to get after a meal has totally disappeared.Offered FWIW, Regards,Tom</blockquote>

Verification

Top Bottom

Search

Search

Reply to Thread