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Handy hints and tips
- Thread starter cazscot
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cazscot
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
My hints and tips are:- (I apologise if most of these are common sense)...
Dont just weigh yourself measure as well. Sometimes we can stay the same weight but loose inches as we are exercising and toning up.
I keep my largest pair of trousers I bought (size 32 😱) and when I am having a bad day or moment, I drag them out of the wardrope and put them on!! It is amazing how that sometimes snaps me back to reality LOL.
I keep a picture on my fridge of me at my heaviest to remind me before opening the door...
If you have a bad day/week draw a line under it and start afresh, don't beat yourself up about it. It is gonna be a struggle and we will all fall off the wagon at some point. The main thing is to climb back on!!!
Dont just weigh yourself measure as well. Sometimes we can stay the same weight but loose inches as we are exercising and toning up.
I keep my largest pair of trousers I bought (size 32 😱) and when I am having a bad day or moment, I drag them out of the wardrope and put them on!! It is amazing how that sometimes snaps me back to reality LOL.
I keep a picture on my fridge of me at my heaviest to remind me before opening the door...
If you have a bad day/week draw a line under it and start afresh, don't beat yourself up about it. It is gonna be a struggle and we will all fall off the wagon at some point. The main thing is to climb back on!!!
Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
My top tips:
Eat less and exercise more
😛
My tip: practise what you preach! 🙂 Seriously, I know that it can be very difficult getting into exercise if you haven't been one for it in the past. Start anything slowly and build it into your daily/weekly schedule - it only works if you find something you enjoy and can stick with. I used the gym for a while, but felt very claustrophobic there as my best reason for exercising is to be out in the open air.
Exercise has a huge (positive) impact on your blood sugars, so whatever you can manage is very beneficial 🙂
My tip: Portion sizes
Sometimes husband can make dinner and bring in a plate that is twice the size it should be (bless him!). So instead of saying he has given me too much - i eat half and freeze the rest - telling him I am stuffed but meal was lovely and don't want to waste it. Or freeze half before start dinner - so not tempted to overeat!
Sometimes husband can make dinner and bring in a plate that is twice the size it should be (bless him!). So instead of saying he has given me too much - i eat half and freeze the rest - telling him I am stuffed but meal was lovely and don't want to waste it. Or freeze half before start dinner - so not tempted to overeat!
Steff
Little Miss Chatterbox
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
My tip:Replacing those little treats
When you feel like reaching for that bit of choccy or that bag of crisps maybe go for a piece of fruit,hard to do at the time but it's the habit i am into now, i used to have a bit in the fridge that had mini treats in there but now i have done away with that and have a container full of apples and oranges.
When you feel like reaching for that bit of choccy or that bag of crisps maybe go for a piece of fruit,hard to do at the time but it's the habit i am into now, i used to have a bit in the fridge that had mini treats in there but now i have done away with that and have a container full of apples and oranges.
ypauly
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Eat slow, very very slow.
Eating fast releases the pleasure stuff in your brain, eating slowly will get you more in touch with what your body needs rather than wants. You will find after just a couple of weeks of eating slow that you feel full up sooner.
Edited to add. wife tells me paul mckenna did a programme on this, and it's on you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv1JBZ197Q
Eating fast releases the pleasure stuff in your brain, eating slowly will get you more in touch with what your body needs rather than wants. You will find after just a couple of weeks of eating slow that you feel full up sooner.
Edited to add. wife tells me paul mckenna did a programme on this, and it's on you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv1JBZ197Q
My tip: remove temptation & don't shop when hungry! 😱
For anyone like me... I have to make sure I don't buy any 'naughties' - even as hypo treats, otherwise I will just wolf my way through them! 😱 I also am now trying to make a list and shop when not hungry...as well as hopefully losing lb's I should save a few ?'s by not impulse buying lol! 😛
For anyone like me... I have to make sure I don't buy any 'naughties' - even as hypo treats, otherwise I will just wolf my way through them! 😱 I also am now trying to make a list and shop when not hungry...as well as hopefully losing lb's I should save a few ?'s by not impulse buying lol! 😛
cazscot
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Ha ha
have been up the Eiffel tower, world trade centre, empire state buliding, sears tower, space needle etc and have even done a helicopter ride through the grand canyon... When it is to do with sightseeing I force myself to do it (I also get a little chemical help from my GP to make me relax when flying 😛)...Thats good Caz.
Twitchy - totally agree about the shopping when not hungry bit. I only do online food shopping now - this way I can shop when in the right frame of mind, but not be naughty when it arrives as there is nothing naughty there now these days. Sometimes order myself a little treat if feel deserved it!
Twitchy - totally agree about the shopping when not hungry bit. I only do online food shopping now - this way I can shop when in the right frame of mind, but not be naughty when it arrives as there is nothing naughty there now these days. Sometimes order myself a little treat if feel deserved it!
Copepod
Much missed Moderator
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Long before I got diabetes, I remember being taught to buy emergency rations (for hiking etc) that I didn't like. Bit of a problem, as I couldn't think of any food that I didn't like, although Marathon bars (as they were called then) were my least favourite chocolate, so usually took one. Guess, same principle still applies for hypo treatment, so I should carry spearmints, my leats favourite sweets, but usually manage to resist eating sweets except when essential.
two tips
Don't cary sweets in your bag. If you need something for a hypo carry something you are not likely to eat unless you need it to treat hypo.
If you fancy chocolate send someone to get you a small bar. that way you wont feel deprived by not having it and you wont be tempted to have too much.
Don't cary sweets in your bag. If you need something for a hypo carry something you are not likely to eat unless you need it to treat hypo.
If you fancy chocolate send someone to get you a small bar. that way you wont feel deprived by not having it and you wont be tempted to have too much.
Another more dubious tip, from that book I read (should point out it was a novel lol!!) ...was giving yourself rewards when you reach every mini-goal on the way to your main weight loss goal (bit like those 'syns' someone mentioned) but not food related - something more like a manicure etc - another idea for a treat was buying a 'blank' charm bracelet and buying yourself another charm each time you lost say 1/2 a stone or something - not my thing really but might motivate you if you like that kind of jewelry! 🙂 I think the idea was that it's also a good visible reminder of progress to date & so encouragement to continue...