Living with Diabetes

Losing Weight

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I’ve lost weight with just about everything you’ve heard of.

I’ve lost weight with Weight Watchers, I’ve lost weight with Jenny Craig, I’ve lost weight with hypnosis.

What I have been unable to do, is keep the weight off. The minute something takes my attention off of losing weight, or keeping the weight off, I gain it all back.

I even lost 100 pounds once. That was with hypnosis, and it was easy. But then a life event came around (okay, a couple), took my focus off of losing weight, back it was on.

Even this year, I’ve managed to lose some weight — then my husband broke his hip, and back the weight came.

The sad part, is that I usually get MORE weight, not just what I lost.

It also gets harder to lose the weight each time.

And that is why I think it is a disease. I don’t think other people have to think about losing weight all day, every day — or keeping weight off, all day every day.

But then maybe they do.

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2 responses to “Losing Weight”

  1. Pem Avatar
    Pem

    I’m losing weight for the first time, controlling my type II with diet and exercise alone and eating low carb to keep my bg under 140 one hour after meals, under 120 at 2 hours. I’ve only been doing this for four months but I’ve been losing about 5 pounds a month without trying so I have hope that this lifestyle change that I must stay with to control my bg will keep the weight off. I don’t think I could have done it by making losing weight my goal, but the bg goal works for me partly because I don’t feel too deprived because I can have a small treat without going too high. I don’t know that any of that is useful to you, but at least I would say keep trying to find what works for you that isn’t a matter of willpower and deprivation.

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  2. Kathleen Weaver Avatar
    Kathleen Weaver

    The problem is, is that it DOES take constant addition to the problem. If I do not concentrate on exercising every day, on what I eat, etc. I don’t do what needs to be done.
    Part of the problem, was that I was raised on a very haphazard schedule. We never had dinner at the same time, nor did we really eat right.
    Snacks were the norm, not the exception.
    So the instant something becomes a higher priority — like when my husband broke his hip, it call falls apart.

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