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hello out there...you are not alone.... I have been dieting since February 15 and lost 9 pounds... I have dieted different ways for many years off and on.. I have sugar diabetes..had it for over a year and half...if you don't do something about your eating habits now..you will pay for it later.. I have found a way before I discovered this site..that goes along with what I'm doing... When I was first diagnosed with diabetes.. I take pills for this...I got my sugar under control at first..then I ate like I used to.. can't do it..my sugar skyrocketed up to 200-300 for several months..which is very very bad..all that sugar free stuff is very misleading..except for the jello and diet drinks. Well I printed out some pages starting with 8am to 9pm and I write down what I eat on each time slot.. I love potato chips and bread dearly but for 6 weeks I did without them..Within that time frame, my sugar dropped down to the 90's -115..which is wonderful and has stayed there.. so I had to make a decision for my health.. I definitely don't eat sweets, snacks or seconds...which I was doing before I found this website and I agree with it.. NOW I do watch my carbs.. but you can't cut them out completely..you have to spread them out thru the day ..so last week I ate a turkey sandwich..with 2 slices of 35 calorie wheat bread and 12 baked lays potato chips...yum..I coulda ate more but not worth my life...a once a day thing and not always every day... I love to munch... so I have 1/cup nuts with a diet soda and eat slowly... I also buy the turkey bacon and microwave it..til its crisp...in my mind its like a flavored potato chip...works for me and is a lot better for me. I have a notebook full of pages of my eating habits for the past 6 weeks so far...write what you eat down..look at it.. make adjustments...write down what works for you that day or if it didnt work.. I also made a place on that sheet for 8 glasses of water.. I check off every space for 1 cup of water I drink...sometimes I drink 10 glasses...water is very very important especially if you eat a lot of proteins..Im walking a mile every day down..using a cane...I'm 56... diabetic, glaucoma, hyper tension, rheumatoid arthritis, I've had back surgery and my diet affects all of this and these problems affect each other..so don't wait til its a half to case.. Good luck...its not easy but its the way to go...its a decision only YOU can make....Carol Joy Kelley <rkyobo@...> wrote: Hello everyone. Well, I haven't posted here again because I figured that the noS diet wouldn't work for me. On my first weekend, I ate like a total pig. I wasn't able to keep myself from snacking, and put the 2 lbs I had lost right back on. For me, it's difficult to stop with one little snack. You know like with Lays potato chips - you can't eat just one. Well, I'm that way with LOTS of types of snacks. However, I am going to try REALLY HARD to get back onto this plan. Since I can eat some fruit - and I love fruit - then maybe I can handle it. I'll just have to follow the rules more closely. I also try to stay away from carbs as much as possible. Bread and pasta are binge triggers for me. A couple of baked potatoes a week probably will be okay. But honestly it doesn't take much to get me snacking indiscriminately. :( Last night I got up at 3:00 in the morning and had a snack cake. I have those snack cakes in the house for my grandson's lunch. I try to get him to eat fruit instead of cookies or snack cakes, but he doesn't eat fruit well. I'll have to work on it some more with him. But he is a little underweight, so I really don't want to put him on any kind of a diet that will keep him from putting on weight. Why is it that food is such a stressor???!!! Anyway, everyone keep me in your thoughts as I am going to give this another try. I'm kind of desperate to find a way of eating healthfully that will work for me and my husband. I really need to lose at least 20 pounds. Joy wrote: There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. starting on a noS day From: "Jacqueline Gindler" 2. (unknown) From: "lee33183" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:42:15 -0500 From: "Jacqueline Gindler" Subject: starting on a noS day I am the disgusting slovenly pig who made the suggestion about starting on a noS day. I discovered the website on a Saturday and made a decision to start on Monday. During the weekend, I had a lot of time to pay attention to my eating habits, which was useful in and of itself; I also was able to think about what I wanted to eat and how I was going to manage my meals come Monday. I am prone to hyperbole; sorry if I offended anyone. Jacqueline Gindler ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:00:25 -0000 From: "lee33183" Subject: (unknown) Jacqueline You didn't offend me. In fact yesterday I was beating myself up for being piggy. In fact I found this website by punching in the words I am fat on my search engine. That is how bad I felt about my weight. I had a great week last week but during the weekend I had alot of food. Monday I put the 2 lbs on that I had taken off and was very upset. (Ladies, I am also suffering from those monthly cravings we get.) I did good Monday but yesterday I just broke all the rules and mentally beat myself up and hid from the group. I am over that now and can go on again. I am still having the cravings but I think my body has to get back to the sugar leaving my body and settling down. Last week that took a couple of days and then I was fine. Thanks everyone for the help. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joy My webpage: http://groups.msn.com/JoysPhotoHairpage Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------- To visit your group on the web, go to: To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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