My Big Plan to lose some weight with Type 2 Diabetes

kazwookie

Egg noodles soup with sweet corn, peas and chicken yum yum............home made of course

cuthbert_the_octopus

Silver-Cat wrote: »

Day 2 (wednesday)

Just as a question and this might seem a bit wierd, but when I put weight on my bust size also increased and is quite nice and fuller if I may say so myself.:p When the weight falls off does that mean I lose my bust?

My experience is that as your bust size decreases, the chest measurement also gets smaller, but the cup size gets larger.

Weight will fall off your entire body - for me my wedding ring no longer fits and just falls off my finger - and I always thought that I had quite slender hands!

viktory

I have also just started a healthy eating plan - I am in my third week and have lost 7lb thus far. Try replacing the soup with salad or fish and vegetables at lunch. The following is a sample menu for me:

Weetabix with fruit such as blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and/or blackberries
Banana mid morning
Egg salad sandwich on wholemeal bread or tuna salad with a handful of cooked wholemeal pasta for lunch
Something from my Graze box mid afternoon
Omelette with roasted peppers and tomatoes and salad or fish with broccoli, green beans, peas and sweetcorn.
Pudding might be stewed plums and a spoonful of low fat rice.

I also drink three big mugs of green tea and about a litre of water.

Exercise is walking the dogs and my exercise bike.

TVA

Just a thought - you mentioned several cups of tea. I don't know if you have sugar but if you are drinking a lot of tea with sugar its worth losing the sugar or switching to water. Fizzy pop is my weakness and its amazing the difference it made when I cut that out. Good luck.

siaoeh

another quick one... this is about sugar free stuff (ie artificial sweeteners).. try and avoid using them if you can, as they make you feel hungry after due to tricking our brains into expecting a sugar boost as they taste sweet, then when the sugar never arrives, brain will send out hungry signals seeking for it.. instead, try and wean yourself off having sugar in tea/coffee etc in fact, now I find some stuff taste too sickly sweet when everyone else finds its just right. saying that, I do have the odd sugar free cherry cokes when the itch needs scratching! and I'm not even normally a huge coke fan LOL

and definitely keep off the 'diabetic' ice cream!

Silver-Cat

Hiya, thanks for the replies.

I do drink a lot of tea, as have it made for me all day at work. I don't have sugar in it and stopped using sweetners a while ago. Now I dislike it with either them in. I might add sugar to coffee but rarely drink coffee. I probably have about 3 weak squashes a day.

I guess the soups are a no no and I won't buy anymore but will look at fresher healthier alternates.Its mainly through laziness as I have a quick lunch at my desk and am usually doing bits of work whilst browsing online!

Fortunately I am getting a new freezer as without one right now so can start making fresh soup.
Most of the time I am not hungry and am more tired than anything.

Even friends say they don't understand why I've put so much weight on when I really don't eat much and this isn't me being in self denial. I guess this is where exercise is the key.

Silver-Cat

Today's Progress
Day 3 - thursday

Meals
Breakfast - miller light yoghurt with pear and a plum
Lunch - chicken and pasta big soup (small tin) - last one I promise
Snacks - 1 pear, 1 apple, small bowl of walnuts (I'll pay for this tomorrow :eek: )
Tea - child's portion lamb mousakka ready meal with low fat cheese, loads of courgettes though.
snack - cheese and pickle mini pork pie

exercise - walked to work and on visiting relative in care home walked home. was a nice evening.

unfortunately I don't have a dog for walks, just soppy cats.
however I do have a pretty girlie purple bike going to waste in the garage! might be time to try it out again.

ailuro2

Silver Cat, good luck for today, and I hope you enjoyed that pork pie, it will probably the last guilt-free pork pie you'll eat, lol!:D

Silver-Cat

ailuro2 wrote: »

Silver Cat, good luck for today, and I hope you enjoyed that pork pie, it will probably the last guilt-free pork pie you'll eat, lol!:D

I know! it was lovely though.
I guess today is the real change but I think my having someting in the morning s a big change.
I looked in my fridge / cupboards last night and to be honest there is not a lot of stuff there to tempt me.

I have yoghurts, fruit, loaf of bread untouched for a week as I go in bouts of eating bread but not touched ay this week, things like rice and pasta, a tinned cheese ravioli that has been there for a while, thts about it apart from the usual stuff like butter, milk (red top), cheese (which we mainly use as grated toppings on things like panini or baked spud).

There are no things like crisps, biscuits, sweets. We buy them rarely and they tend to go straight away. Crisps are a big weakness of mine but from not having them this week I can honestly say I haven't missed them!

I don't tend to stock up a lot and do shops several times a week to get the bargains and that way there is not piles of food to pick at.
After today I am hoping to have a list of what to get that would be best to have.

rachbc

Ok I hope you don't mind a few suggests for healthier swaps

muller light - full of artificcial sweetners that will make you feel hungrier later - how about natural yogurt with some fruit chopped up and a just a smidge of real sugar. Maybe add a few seeds to up the protein content to keep full longer, or some toasted oats for fibre and fullness too.

hm soup - and add in a source of low fat protein - I'd say have a bigger lunch and you might be tempted to snack less - so low fat cottage cheese, or lean ham/ sliced roast chicken - just a slice or so with a small wholegrain roll with your soup.

Try some veg as well as fruit for snacks - less likely to affect your blood sugar levels - carrot sticks etc or even roast peppers etc...nuts are fab - almonds are lower in fat than othes I think I decant 10 into a little box for a middle after snack so I keep in control of the portions size.

pork pie? least said soonest mended....;-)