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Losing 2-4 pounds a week/fortnight

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thou card/cal counting and carefull about what i eat Have lost 2 stone so far so i must be doing something right Have a lot to lose Im happy with this amount or should i be aiming for more? Your advice greaty received
 
Well done @gail2, that's really good going. One word of caution: don't lose too much too quickly. I did and now although I look quite respectable when clothed, I look like I need ironing when I undress!
 
Well done on your weight loss so far. I would second @Vonny and suggest you aim for a moderate steady loss of 2kg per month which is kinder on your body and don't worry if the weight loss is not consistent. As long as the trend is downwards and you are feeling well. We are always here to follow your progress and support you. I am due more blood tests next week one of which I suspect will be cholesterol levels again. Fingers crossed the diet changes in the last 6 months have helped.
 
Sorry Gail, advice was 1 to 2kg per month. Oops fingers engaged before brain.
 
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Well done on your weight loss so far. I would second @Vonny and suggest you aim for a moderate steady loss of 2kg per month which is kinder on your body and don't worry if the weight loss is not consistent. As long as the trend is downwards and you are feeling well. We are always here to follow your progress and support you. I am due more blood tests next week one of which I suspect will be cholesterol levels again. Fingers crossed the diet changes in the last 6 months have helped.
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thanks lost 1 stone in a month but that was a cancer scare and now its 1-2 pounds a week which i guess im happy with its just i want it all now if u know wot i mean
 
Well I've lost just under 20 pounds in my five weeks, so thats an average of just under 4lb per week, but the first two weeks I lost more, then the third week onwards it has slowed down, I'm averaging about 1kg per week now, (2.2lbs).
I think the general advice is to lose it reasonable slow and steady.
I would love to know what the average weight loss is for the T2D pathway to remission program?
 
Any decent dietitian will tell you that a 1lb a week weight loss is both sensible and sustainable. Lots of people (myself included) want to rush weight loss when they know they are being 'good' but one thing I have learned since being diagnosed T2, it's more about maintaining a dietary lifestyle long term, rather than for short term weight loss goals.

The weight loss was a very welcome bonus of low carb for me. It's all gone a bit pear shaped now and I'm putting weight back on so need to adjust again but such is life :confused:
 
Congrats, I agree with Deb_1
I am currently losing about same at 1kg a week, slowly but surely is the way to go and don't fret if one week its heavier than expected, you can bet the next day it will be back to the steady weight.
 
gail2 said:
thou card/cal counting and carefull about what i eat Have lost 2 stone so far so i must be doing something right Have a lot to lose Im happy with this amount or should i be aiming for more? Your advice greaty received
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Jodee said:
Congrats, I agree with Deb_1
I am currently losing about same at 1kg a week, slowly but surely is the way to go and don't fret if one week its heavier than expected, you can bet the next day it will be back to the steady weight.
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Congratulations on losing everyone - can you tell me what plan you are on - calories, no carb, low carb etc. If calorie counting how many are you having a day please. I have lot about 7 Ibs but its taken me over a year put in on take it off . I currently need to lose between 3 & 4 stone but its very slow. I take metformin and dapagliflozin
Any help & advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks
 
Everyone is different @JANeedtoloseweight, that's one of the problems with diabetes...there is no one size fits all. I personally went very low carb, simply cutting out bread, potatoes, pasta and rice. It suited me perfectly. However, it all depends on what other medication you are on as well. I'm not sure about dapagliflozin. With metformin it is fine because my DN advised me that it couldn't cause a hypo.

Edited to add I've responded to your other thread as well @JANeedtoloseweight 🙂
 
havnt been on here for a while . Very quick background. Not a great fan of NHS . Recovering from stroke “ you will never walk again “ me **** off, now fully mobile still relatively slow, still working on stamina. So plenty of short bursts of tough exercise.
Told by random phone call I had diabetes in March They sent link to here.I kicked off and they sent diabetes nurse to house , all results very good bar HbA1c level 53mmol I’ve got down to 48mmol very quickly. Getting new tests in new year.
Weight varies from 84kg to 77kg doesn’t seem to change much between them. To me my weight seems pretty good normal size, strong overall muscle tone due to unusual post stroke rehab.
I think because of excellent first result I’ve fallen into a routine , keeping up exercise, weight seems tolerably stable.
Same meals as pre diagnosis minus potatoes or rice , lower portions . Have protein drink ( Huel ) instead of a meal Feel pretty good under circumstances just have this feeling I’m being too complacent.
Any thoughts ?
 
Hi @manji, if your HBA1c is coming down (well done!) and you're exercising (well done!) and you're eating decent meals minus spuds and rice (again, well done!) I don't think you need to worry about complacency. If what you are doing is sustainable, keep on at it and see if your results in the New Year reflect your hard work. Hopefully they will!
 
@Vonny @Alan44 thanks a lot . When the Diabetes Nurse visited I’d checked my results on the rather good NHS app. I had quite a few questions “ what’s my creative levels “ TBF I forgotten now but as I do was chatting away to her and politely challenged her on the abrupt way I was originally told about my diabetes. She told me about the amount of people that weren’t really interested and when they did the follow up people had made no changes. She reckoned so many people had diabetes they assumed it was no big deal.
My argument was I was working hard on the stroke recovery so I was especially concerned. I reckoned that working on both was on obvious follow up .
I’m lucky my house is on a council estate built in the good old days plenty of green space in our area. Decent front and back garden and bearing in mind we are not far from town centre a wooded area once you open the back gate.
I’m afraid I will keep mentioning the stroke the two go hand in hand.
I acheieved walking around the house , the stairs were tough but they had put hand rails in. Walking around a nice flat carpet became a breeze. Walking on uneven ground a whole new ball game. Balance and cognitive perception came into play.
But the diabetes made me try harder. I guess currently I can do about half a mile but remembering I have to return again it’s far more harder work on uneven ground , which is good and I do some basic gardening. The lawn looks great but it’s like a ploughed field so working out there is testing.
I’ve been told from a couple of sources a couple of hours in the garden is far better for you than a serious bit of jogging and I became to realise everything is exercise, washing up.
Emptying the washing machine I am very conscious of all my movements. In a bizzare way I enjoy such tasks they aren’t chores.
 
Vonny said:
Hi @manji, if your HBA1c is coming down (well done!) and you're exercising (well done!) and you're eating decent meals minus spuds and rice (again, well done!) I don't think you need to worry about complacency. If what you are doing is sustainable, keep on at it and see if your results in the New Year reflect your hard work. Hopefully they will!
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Definitely sustainable. I liked my crisps , the inevitable biscuit tin. If I have a snack attack some water and a raw celery stick does the trick . I think it’s psychological. Ages ago I had countless attempts at giving up smoking . The winner was carrying around a small bottle of water. Everytime I had a craving I had a swig of water . The hand to mouth action replaced the smoking action.
I’m told I overthink but it’s come in very handy. It’s been ridiculously tough the last few years with some seriously dark times but in some ways I find it interesting as well which helps.
I don’t pretend to be zen like. I had a right tantrum about the diabetes. All this work I’ve put in and now I’ve got ****ing diabetes
 
I do worry about my weight . If you look at me I don’t look overweight but I’ve just converted my average 8.10kgs and it comes out at not far off 13stone comparing that to some of you it seems a lot.
I will always be limited in my movement. No treadmills or jogging for me ( thankfully ) but can’t see me getting that down fasting or similar wouldn’t last.

Just done one of those online weight calculators and I’m supposed to be overweight . I should be 77kgs as I’ve mentioned I about 80kgs. Lowest I’ve been post str*ke is 79kg. Again with the conflicting information I’ve been told BMI is a tenuous guide.
 
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Morning @manji When I was diagnosed with T2 it was by text message which directed me to this site and I was basically told to "go cure myself" and come back in 3 months for another blood test to confirm T2.

The first thing I learnt was, "Weight", "Diet", and "Exercise", but, just how you manage this can be very individual as diabetes itself can be very individual and we as people have our own limitation on just what we can and cant do.

You have adopted a great approach with regards to exercise because the more you can do (within your own abilities) the better for improving your stroke condition and the diabetes situation.

Any movement is exercise and as you say mowing the lawn is a great one as you have something to hold onto at the same time and of course you garden looks better which is another added bonus.

All most of us can do is the best we can and keep positive, maybe set ourselves targets, no matter how small and aim to achieve them as best we can. You were told you would never walk again, so I guess your target was to prove them wrong which you did and that was no small target by any means, so very well done and I can only imagine how hard that must have been for you.

Just keep going and keep posting

Alan 😉
 
Thank you @Alan44 I’m not finished yet I was chatting to a peer on here about exercise they said they hadn’t done any exercise that week they were too busy organising a wedding or similar. Charging around , shopping , dropping stuff off at friends. Said she was too exhausted too exercise. I suggested they had clearly had enough exercise. They associated exercise as going to the gym or for a jog.
Too be blunt I even see standing up from the toilet as exercise. I concentrate visualise my weight pushing through my legs maintaining my balance. Clearly that’s not an overly excessive exercise but it all counts.
The garden is a big deal it’s well overgrown , I don’t have a problem with that it encourages butterflies etc but it’s gone crazy it’s a mammoth task. I call it micro forestry but I’m leaning over on unstable ground stretching out cutting back. Bending over collecting the cuttings up transferring a heavy bag to the council garden waste bin . I have to take this heavy bag through the house to the bin outside.
Then bl**dy well clean up afterwards a lot of detail there but can you imagine how effective it is ?
 
Today I’ve felt tired . I’ve been told how important sleep is. You are processing all the activity that has been done previously so I thought heck with it , pottered around the house a bit and had a couple of catnaps. I would have felt guilty about that once but no more. I just make sure I reduce my food intake slightly and upped the fluids.
Again possibly overanalysing but no harm done.
 
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