Overeating

[Lizzzie]

Hi I'm type 1 and I'm eating too much. I have kids and a husband who goes to bed early, and find myself snacking to distract myself from work. Sometimes I suspect that up and down BGs play a big part in this too - promote feeling hungry etc. Tonifht ive eaten 6 pan au chocolate.

I am not actually badly overweight but I can't go on eating like this or I will be! I wondered if anyone - poss type 2s - had any tips.

 

[Jane16]

Hi Lizzie

I am very new to this only diagnosed type 2 a week ago so I dont have a lot of knowledge, there are loads of tips and good ideas from people on here though and I am sure you will get some great replies.
May be start with keeping some healthy nibbles or snacks handy , I know they dont pack the punch of a pain au choc but might take the edge off.
I wish you well
Jane x

 

[Greymouser]

It is all too easy to get distracted by life and such, but I am afraid there is no easy answer, you have to control the carbs. I find it a little easier if you can find something else to do, to occupy your mind, but cannot really help you with suggestions there, because I do not know your likes and dislikes.

For me it is meditation or reading, or Astronomy. 🙂

 

[rebrascora]

The problem with carbs is that the more you eat, the more you want.
There was a time when I would have been able to do the same as you. I could happily eat a whole box of Cadbury's Cream Eggs or a multipack of Snickers or a whole box of chocolate brownies and I probably still could if I went back to my old ways, but I choose not to step onto that slippery slope. I went pretty much "cold turkey" when I was diagnosed in Feb and I still don't eat bread/pasta/rice and only the occasional potato and the only sweet treat I have is a nut bar or Nature Valley Protein Bar, other than the occasional handful of jelly beans for a hypo. I think of the jelly beans as medication these days and the way I look at it I wouldn't have more than 2 paracetamol, so that helps mentally.
It definitely does help not to have those sort of naughty things in the house though (having said that my partenr has a sweet tooth and usually has a cake and biscuit cupboard) I keep plenty of low carb treats available like nuts or veggie sticks and dips or cheese or olives if you like them. or boiled eggs or pickles..... very difficult to overindulge pickles as your taste buds tend to draw a line in the sand!

I dread to think how much insulin you must have needed for all those pain au chocolat! Did you bolus for each one?

I find it amazing but I very rarely crave now and it is such a relief to be free of it. It is mostly because I eat a Low Carb, Higher Fat diet and use minimal Quick Acting insulin. It may seem unimaginable not to eat bread and pasta and cakes and biscuits and sweets but there are so many other lovely foods which are low carb that once you get your head around it, you really don't care when people pass a plate of cakes or sweets around and you don't have one. I am amazed that I am no longer tempted. I could chew my fingers to the bone for sweet stuff before diagnosis. I love being slimmer and I love my new diet and food tastes so much better now that I just don't crave sweet stuff.

Not sure if any of that helps you but the two things I would say are most important are having plenty of low carb snacks and keeping busy.