Divine1403's Journal, 18 Jul 23

You should be in a deficit if you are looking to loose weight? 

I am in a bad deficit. Minimum a woman should eat is 1200 calories a day. I'm struggling to keep up to the minimum.  

I lost over 2kg this week alone. Not good for my health  

Maybe you should have a chat to your doctor or a dietitian, as I know diabetes is a difficult thing to deal with.  

May sister in law was diagnosed two months ago and she has lost close to 16kgs already.  

I can believe that. I lost 2kg in 2 days 0f starting insulin.  

I know the struggles personally. I am under the care of Endocrinologist & dietician. Together they have changed my life. My psychologist has helped with getting me in the right mental space. I had to go for gastric bypass as my other option was do nothing & possibly not survive for 5 more years. Give yourself a fighting chance by getting the right help 

Please look after yourself and keep us up to date. 

My mom was diabetic and I used to cook for her. Thing is EVERYTHING has sugar, it’s just what type of sugar. I would use some YouTube channels for some direction. You can start off with bran flakes blue berries and strawberries. Or have egg with turkey bacon grilled, and low Gi toast. A salad etc or even chia seeds etc options are endless for different budgets 

As far as I know the sugar free peanut butter is diabetic friendly, there are also lots of other sugar free nut butter options if you don’t like peanuts and these all have a healthy amount of calories and fats. Possibly try this with an apple or a slice of low GI toast - there are also sugar free jam options for a classic PB&J :). Another option is or some full fat plain greek yogurt with some berries and a sprinkle of sweetener 

How about some Greek yoghurt with sweetener? 

Thanks everyone. I'm tried harder today to eat more calories for breakfast and lunch. I put in 20g of future life with kellogs fibre bran and low fat milk and hot water and made a smoothie. Lunch was an egg and mushroom low gi brown bread sandwich and 2 rice multi grain rice cakes with 15g peanut butter. Two eggs, salad, beans and low gi bread again. Still had 300 calories to spare so I had an apple and some biltong. I'm a bit scared of yoghurt as that also has sugar in the form of lactose. But I will try that as well. My macros seem better today. Hope my sugar readings are good tomorrow. Will keep you'll updated. Thanks for the advice  

The scariest part is the inches I'm dropping. We are all here to lose weight, but clothes that didn't fit me last week (size 38, XL) now are super loose and I look like I'm wearing somebody else's clothes! It was hilarious trying to keep my jeans up today.  

Definitely seek professional help. But technically you could down a shot of sunflower oil. It would shoot your calories up. Doing that has other consequences though. 

Nuts are very high calorie. Peanut butter on apple slices is a delicious snack. 

Before my body decided it would wage war with eggs for the foreseeable future, I used to keep boiled eggs around to snack on throughout the day.