3-month Update

[EllsBells]

I've just passed my 3-month D-versary, so thought I'd post a progress update.

The good:

• I have brought my sugars down to an average score of 5.9
• I've lost 3 stone
• My BMI now falls within the obese category - down from morbidly obese
• I have lots more energy, no more brain fog and none of the diabetes symptoms I had in the Autumn.
• My pants keep falling down

The bad:

• Self-sabotaging by buying junk food and justifying it to myself. I'm not eating all of it but there is a constant trickle of naughtinesses in my shopping basket. I am worried about slipping back into old habits.
• Snacking is creeping back in
• Some weeks, I cannot stop the hunger pangs.
• I'm probably still eating too many calories in a day (luckily fewer than I am using, at least for now)

The meh:

• My hands are really cold, really dry and the skin is easily damaged. Without constant moisturising they crack and bleed. I also keep dropping and breaking things.
• I still have a long weight loss journey ahead of me - about 5 1/2 stones more is the ultimate aim.
• Remission is still possible but my pancreas has not magically reset itself after reaching the 15kg mark (35lbs). If I eat a chinese and don't exercise, my BG fasting levels are elevated for several days afterwards.
• Weight loss is very hard work, once the weight water has come off.
• The 3-month mark is when I usually ease up on things because it's something that is now routine. It isn't.

 

[adrian1der]

Great progress @EllsBells The weight loss is excellent and it is really good that you have more energy. My go to snacks are a chuck of cheese or, in extremis, pork scratchings. I had six stone to loss when I started but by setting little goals along the way I'm getting there having lost just short of 5st 10lbs.

 

[EllsBells]

Great progress @EllsBells The weight loss is excellent and it is really good that you have more energy. My go to snacks are a chuck of cheese or, in extremis, pork scratchings. I had six stone to loss when I started but by setting little goals along the way I'm getting there having lost just short of 5st 10lbs.

Thanks - I took a bag of pork scratchings and some individual cheese to drinks at my mate's garden last week because of you!

 

[Vonny]

Thanks - I took a bag of pork scratchings and some individual cheese to drinks at my mate's garden last week because of you!

Thank goodness I am not alone. The snacks for me are creeping back in the shape of pork scratching strips - I can't manage proper scratchings any more after an expensive trip to the dentist! But must cut them down to once a week max.

 

[EllsBells]

Thank goodness I am not alone. The snacks for me are creeping back in the shape of pork scratching strips - I can't manage proper scratchings any more after an expensive trip to the dentist! But must cut them down to once a week max.

Yep. All thanks to our resident scratching-pusher!! 😱

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Well done on your amazing progress @EllsBells

Really inspirational stuff, but grounded and real too.

Keep going!