Hi, Welcome
Sounds like you already know what you have to do, eating bread at the weekend would be like giving a recovering alcoholic a small drink at the weekend and expecting them to be back on the wagon on monday morning, bread is sugar = don't eat bread, its just a state of mind, you have to make the choice to stop and just stop, is it tough? yes, can you do it? yes
best of luck, ask questions and keep us posted
Brilliant! Well done for going public in revealing your intentions. I did that recently, so having made a public pledge cannot renege.Hi,
I'm 52 and very overweight. I was diagnosed with type 2 several years ago. I was put on Metformin, but didn't really do much else, so my blood sugar levels continued to rise. I then had Gliclazide added to my meds, but still didn't alter my diet or lose weight, so my blood sugars continued to rise.
I know I have to alter my self-destructive attitude and lose weight, otherwise the next step is injecting insulin. I would liken my attitude to food to being addicted to carbs and sugar like an alcoholic is addicted to drink.
In most ways I'm a positive person, but not in my attitude to food. I have to change this, which is why I've joined this forum. Hopefully I can educate myself about how to eat a low carb diet and also about what will happen if I don't, but mostly I need to stop hiding from this as I need to have a knee operation and that will not happen while my diabetes is out of control.
So, my first steps have been - to start taking testing my blood seriously (I went for 3 years without bothering to do this), to use the website My Fitness Pal to record what I'm eating and keep my carbs as low as I can, to cut out the bread I adore, along with potatoes (I might have bread at the weekend, but earn it by walking the dog for longer), to stop binge eating, buying cakes, ice-cream, pies - I find myself reaching for anything and everything a diabetic shouldn't have - and learn some self-control when shopping.
It doesn't sound good, does it?
I so hope i can change.
R x
Always feel better when I am doing low carb.
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