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Getting back to healthy eating after the holidays
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Feb 7, 2020 | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
Happy Monday!
What healthy habit have you adopted from the Healthy Lifestyle article that @retiredteacher included in the introduction to this discussion?
I have to admit that I have already wandered astray from diligently writing down my foods and beverages. So today, I am ignoring my recent blank pages, and without feeling any guilt, I am resuming my goal of food tracking! Over the past 12 days I have already discovered some patterns of eatng and snacking that are less-than healthy. Now I am seeing where my real problem eating areas are because I have circled the 'unhealthy' choices red. I did some selective grocery shopping and I am ready to begin again..
How about you, @grillgirl, @dsisko, @contentandwell, @retiredteacher, @johnbishop. How is your resolution going?
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Happy Monday to you too @rosemarya! I decided this year that I would make a New Years Resolution that I could keep ☺ My resolution was to not make any resolutions. That said since retiring at the end of the year, I am able to easily manage my daily exercise schedule of 30 minutes and have even bumped it up to 45 to 60 minutes on days when I'm feeling fairly good. I have had a few bad days with the sweets but I have been mainly focusing on portion control. I have a daily morning gut check on my bathroom scale but I need to get a new one because the one I have is faulty. I know they tell you not to weigh yourself daily but it is an incentive for me and it helps me identify or reinforce what I did or didn't do the previous day.
@rosemarya I had to give myself a tough talk about being in control. I've always been in control, but lately I have allowed myself to have a pity party because there are things that I have no control over that make me disappointed. However, I went back to the "get hold of myself and do it!" I have not missed a day, and I must lose some weight. So, I returned to a rigid diet. I have veggies for lunch, and have cabbage soup (Wt. Watchers) and a sandwich or salad for supper. I have counted carbs and calories as Wt. Watchers says, "If you bite it, write it." I did not weigh when I started, but I will soon. The scale is not my friend so I'll start weighing once a week. I do not eat much meat and my veggies are limited. Fruit is my enemy also. So my meals are eating to get healthy, not eating for something delicious and illegal for diabetics. My blood numbers are still too high. They have been so off the charts that I have to see if I can get back on track; it is a challenge I like. If that doesn't work, then I'll see an endo somewhere (since the only endo here retired), If I have to go to a new endo., I will not be happy. I don't like new doctors. But it may be necessary. I am very stubborn and hardheaded, so I will continue making myself do what I must whether I like it or not.
Thanks, Rosemary, for asking. It's good to have accountability.
Carol
@rosemarya All of these are very good but are things I already knew. It's just following through on them that can be a problem. I am working at using myfitnesspal again to track my calories. I sometimes despise going to the health club but I force myself. Once there I am glad I went. Today I did water aerobics for almost an hour and then about 15 more minutes of water jogging.
I find if I can keep myself to recording everything I put in my mouth, it really does help -- even the half-ounce of dark chocolate I ate today. I too am doing more selective shopping. It's so difficult to walk by things I love but so far, so good.
@johnbishop If you are trying to really track your weight, something I do, then a scale that also measures fluid retention and BMI helps because when my weight goes high some days I look and see that I am retaining water so I know it's not a permanent gain, and I also know to cut way back on sodium. It's definitely not a medically accurate scale, if the BMI is low the fluid retention is high, it balances those two things. I know approximately what my BMI is though so if that varies much from what I know it is then I know the fluid retention is probably fairly accurate. There are days when it says my BMI is in the teens. That will never be the case.
This is the one I have but that same brand has some for as little as $42 which is about what I paid a few years back. I would say I've had it for at least 8 years. I find it really does help. Recently I had been retaining a lot of fluid, but today I was almost back to normal, not quite.
https://www.amazon.com/Tanita-BC533-Innerscan-Composition-Monitor/dp/B0007Y6BS4/ref=sr_1_9?fst=as%3Aoff&keywords=bmi+bathroom+scale&qid=1579031464&refinements=p_89%3ATANITA&rnid=2528832011&s=hpc&sr=1-9
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I diligently track in LoseIt every day. A very easy app to use. If I don’t record, I tend to slowly gain back. I record what I see as “bad foods” in snacks so I can see how many calories could have gone to good foods instead. It’s too many but I’m staying stable in weight so that’s fine for now. Will reduce those soon. Biked 28 miles today so getting exercise as well.