I have been a Diabetic Type 2 for the last 20 years or so and really it comes down to what you eat as being the biggest problem.
Everything you like to eat goes out the window. No alcohol, no sugar or salt – well the last blurb I posted more or less explains how it goes.
You are what you eat.
It is surprising how little we need to eat to manage on a daily basis, bearing in mind I don’t exercise at all, never have!!
I am down to 100kg with 97kg being my target weight.
I eat a bowl of Cornflakes with milk in the morning. I eat either 2 rounds of peanut butter sandwiches or chicken noodles in a mug and teatime is a 375g frozen diet meal I buy in fortnightly, to last from payday to payday.
I have given up all coffee and tea drinks and I just drink water mixed with sugar free cordial with the occasional cup of pulp free apple juice and if I want something to s*** on, I buy packets of sugar free sweets (when they are available)and that does me just fine.
Diabetes is a beatable disease and with proper medication it can easily be beaten, the payoff being living a longer and disease free Diabetes life, to a degree at least.
R
