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A last ditch effort...

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So true. I'm struggling today. All my 'little' ailments have come home to roost. :( Feel proper miserable but must just keep going, can't do anything about any of them except eat properly and don't mess about. I try for four pints of water daily plus now I've added one cup of coffee with cream and a sweetener as I read that coffee is good for liver and mine is almost kaput, I say almost, could be entirely but I don't want to know. Always with the denial! :D

Well done on your weight loss/health 'journey' GrannyLorraine, especially with making all the cakes and taking up the running. I was astounded I must say. 🙂 Very inspiring.
 
Ditto I think once you address your eating habits you'll feel a whole lot better🙂 The hardest part is making that initial decision to adopt a diet plan that is right for you, then keeping to it. Try having multiple daily conversations with your brain telling it to get lost and not to send anymore hunger signals to your stomach🙂
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....and please please re-introduce Paul back into your life. He's there to help you.
Love & (((HUGS)))
WL x
 
Coffee with cream is deeeelicious isnt it) Good to read that you're drinking lots of water too ~ but oh so sorry you're struggling and feel miserable today. I sense you're battling against a brick wall but y'know Ditto it's in your power to break that wall down ~ all you have to do is remove that first brick and it will come crashing down.
So put that sledge hammer to good use!!!
WL x
 
@Ditto I feel your pain. I’ve started again & have had a bug which keeps coming back since Christmas Day & Im craving comfort food. But I can’t tell myself I’m on a diet as the message my sub conscious gets is denial. So the kind of things I’m eating are cheese stuffed mushrooms. I made 2 huge portobello stuffed with a bit of spinach, soft cheese and breadcrumbs sprinkled with Parmesan and garlic. With the salad it was filling, delicious and about 300 cals & low carb. Despite feeling poorly I’m managing to stick to it. I guess what I’m saying is deprivation, for me at least, doesn’t work. I’m eating more but healthy. Keep going we’re all behind you 🙂
 
I must find my Walkman. I have all mod cons me. :D
 
I enjoyed playing my old cassettes on my Walkman, especially when I was festering in hospital years ago after a heart attack. Great stuff!
 
January to October completely wasted months, at least I'm not any fatter, the weight doesn't seem to pile on now despite the piggery, probably due to health reasons. I'm trying the SlimFast again... we'll see. If I can't get a handle on it I shall ask the mods to delete this thread as I'm ashamed.
Early Morning bg: 7.7 @ 5.22am Weight: 14stones 12.8pounds Tum: <50 inches
 
Ditto said:
January to October completely wasted months, at least I'm not any fatter, the weight doesn't seem to pile on now despite the piggery, probably due to health reasons. I'm trying the SlimFast again... we'll see. If I can't get a handle on it I shall ask the mods to delete this thread as I'm ashamed.
Early Morning bg: 7.7 @ 5.22am Weight: 14stones 12.8pounds Tum: <50 inches
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Good luck with it Ditto. I admire anyone who can apply themselves to the very low calorie thing. I know I would end up very hungry and equally grumpy.

On the other point, just for your info. On most forums if you started a thread, if you want it deleted, all you have to do it delete the first post in it. When the first post is gone, so is the thread.
 
Really? That's interesting! I thought the mods had to do it. I'm hoping I don't delete, it'll be bad news for me if this is gone, it'll mean I've really given up. 🙄

I've joined the Exante facebook page, any inspiration helps. I'm doing the water thing to help me not want food. I eat food when I'm not hungry, hunger has absolutely nothing to do with it most of the time. I just like to keep my mouth moving and feel satisfied to the point of feeling sick. So I had pint water with fibre early on, then at 9am I had a SlimFast chocolate shake and immediately after a pint of water with my meds. I was burbling, but it did the trick because there's not long to go before 1.00pm when I can have another pint of water and another SlimFast.

I will have another pint of water at 5.00pm with a Vanilla SlimFast. I need to buy some Dulcolax as things might get difficult in that area which happened last time. I have Diverticulitis amongst a host of other ailments so don't want that to happen. Good grief my life is the pits.

I am going to try other shakes but will probably end up on Exante with water and ice as recced by ColinUK and the official 800.
 
Keep at it Jan, we are all behind you and believe me you are certainly not the only one who pigs out and after nearly 2 years I’m still struggling with the carb thing. Bread talks to me, I hear it singing to me every day. It’s like it has power over me lol x
 
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I just like to keep my mouth moving and feel satisfied to the point of feeling sick.
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I am a bit like that. I found chewing gum helped a lot. That and drinking flavoured teas. I buy fruit flavoured teas. The other thing I find helps is drinking stuff like a hot cup of bovril. It makes me feel full and makes my system think it has had a meal.
 
I forgot about this thread. Can somebody delete it for me please, it's embarrassing! 🙂
 
AndBreathe said:
On the other point, just for your info. On most forums if you started a thread, if you want it deleted, all you have to do it delete the first post in it. When the first post is gone, so is the thread.
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Birdy said:
Really? That's interesting! I thought the mods had to do it. 🙄
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It depends on how the forum is set up. I don't see an option. Some forums don't let delete of OP. Some don't even allow editing of posts.
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I forgot about this thread. Can somebody delete it for me please, it'
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You're best bet is to message Admin directly.
 
Birdy said:
I forgot about this thread. Can somebody delete it for me please, it's embarrassing! 🙂
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You can delete the whole thing by deleting your first post, but can I suggest you leave it? I like your posts because they come as a constant reminder that in this world people come with different backgrounds which shape they way they look at the world and deal with it. Perfect illustration that there is no one size fits all solution to controlling T2 diabetes.
 
I like your honesty too, happy to contribute to a general 'being honest about the difficulties of trying to lose weight' thread if its helpful to talk about it
 
Hear Hear!

Tell the truth and shame the Devil ! - as some of us were defintely advised to do when younger. Shame everyone doesn't stand by the advice though ......

In any event this forum - remains as it has always been, open to all people with diabetes and still also appreciates that there can be more ways than one of dealing with many problems.
 
... but the thought of all this rubbish ie my wafflings, being stored in Ireland and taking up the world's resources and the heat must have an effect from all that electricity used to keep it all going, it's diabolical. I should never have watched that documentary! I've been deleting as much of my stuff from the 'net because I'll be embarrassed when I'm dead. :D
 
God help people like Alan Shanley and Pattidevans then - those two met on an internet diabetes User Group when dial up modems were the only way of using this new interwebnet thingy and home computer use cost thousands and took up practically half a room! Pete only had one cos his printing business used it - Adobe Pagemaker Rules OK ! didn't do the printing at home, the guillotine weighed half a ton for starters - and the works used 3 phase - but kept the computer at home. Mr & Mrs E ran a business too, so no doubt that's why they had one. A lot of the ongoing cost was getting the extra dedicated BT line in for the modem !
 
Hi Birdy
I came across this video recently and started the drinks three days ago. I thought of you and your struggles so thought I'd share this with you ~ and anyone else who is struggling to lose weight. Please think about trying it. Everything crossed & good luck.
Love & hugs x
WL
 
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