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[Nayshiftin]

Thank you, I must sound like a spoilt child, I guess I am feeling overwhelmed, scared, sometimes motivated and other times just want to run away but know I will have to come back. I have done a little. I guess for a week I am really going to see what spikes and what does not. No, I have never been that chocolate bar lover but for example, I was allowed 2 slices of toast which I would say spikes me so had one today. will see shortly but my bmmols on waking range between 7 and 10. I am aiming for lower but they have stayed at that with the meds for about a week. I am on alogliptin. I will have to wait three months to get another Hbac1 whatever it's called. I have so much weight to lose too. I guess as you say little by little.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thank you, I must sound like a spoilt child, I guess I am feeling overwhelmed, scared, sometimes motivated and other times just want to run away but know I will have to come back.

Not at all! What you are feeling is perfectly understandable, natural and very very common.

I have done a little. I guess for a week I am really going to see what spikes and what does not. No, I have never been that chocolate bar lover but for example, I was allowed 2 slices of toast which I would say spikes me so had one today. will see shortly but my bmmols on waking range between 7 and 10. I am aiming for lower but they have stayed at that with the meds for about a week. I am on alogliptin. I will have to wait three months to get another Hbac1 whatever it's called. I have so much weight to lose too. I guess as you say little by little.

Sounds like you are doing great!

The chocolate bar illustration wasn’t really about chocolate specifically. More about anything and everything. Takeaway... biscuit... piece of fruit... Whatever you are eating. and especially if you are eating it as a rare event where the excess enjoyment is balancing the BG spike you expect to happen.

There are functional ‘every day’ foods that we can rely on for fuel that (mostly!) allow our BGs to behave. There are foods we can add in that help increase enjoyment (spices... fats... flavours....) and rhere are foods which we will only choose more rarely because of their high enjoyment factor. But I think that’s the thing to aim for. The choosing of things rather than feeling ‘have to’ or ‘denied‘.

I choose this for my long-term health... I choose this for the moment of pleasure... I choose not to have that right now...

Little by little is certainly the way 🙂

 

[Nayshiftin]

Many thanks for your time it has made me feel heaps better. I Understood that with the example. Today on waking it was 7.1 and two hours post-breakfast 7.4. Before I went on the meds and towed the line. I was having all carbs and loads of them even snacking on crisps and cake and biscuit so got to about 27 and that's when I got tested it was hcac1 thingy 76 and blood tolerance 16 something so I got a wake-up call. Now I just feel as I said but so pleased you have taken this time with me today. Maybe it is something more positive. Rather as you say I am denied things. I chose to help myself and I chose times when I am just giving myself a treat. Not too often. However, that too must be the mindset. I need to replace food with something I enjoy. comfort eating food really has been my thing. That something has to be found.

 

[trophywench]

"That something has to be found"

Indeed - it does - and the world is your small bi-valve mollusc! - what really interests you, floats your boat? Something that you used to do, something you always fancied having a go at - but packed up doing it; didn't go in for that, because of ....

Like a good many things - 'other interests' don't form an orderly queue at the door waiting to be chosen - but at the same time these days - we can find out more about all sorts of stuff whilst sitting in an armchair surfing the web - U3A; Zoom meetings; You Tube videos .....