I have t2 and I am currently on weight watchers.  But I am having trouble loosing the weight.

I have lost 6lbs in 6wks.  nothing seems to work for very long.  Although I stay within my point range and have been walking every other day then doing muscle exercise every other day.

 

My blood sugars have been real good though.

 

I need help still need to get off 24 more pounds and it is embarrassing when I go and do not lose or have gained because of holding water.

 

Frustrated is not the word for it.

Insulin Resistance is hard to beat.  With T2 Diabetes you are insulin resistance.  The fewer the carbs the better. Plus, some form of resistance exercise would help.

 

Insulin Resistance causing weight gain and is hard to lose. 

 

I would recommend a diet that has fewer Carbs. Not totally Atkins, have some.

I lost 30 lb. just by staying under 100 carbs a day and doing Lesley Sansone's "Walk Away the Pounds Tapes"  The first one, a one mile walk seems easy the first few times but you will see results within 2 weeks, then go to the 2-mile, 3-mile, etc.

 

Good LUCK!

The best way to continue to lose weight, is to WRITE down everything you put in your mouth. You would be amazed at the things you eat and forget about. Really, I surprized myself when I started writing down everything that I eat. Try it, I bet you will be surprized too. Try it for one whole week. From Monday to Monday and see if that makes a Huge difference. Just trying to help. Good Luck!!!!!! I

KNOW YOU WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE.

Hi, I am a 43 yr. old female with type 2. I am 5ft 1in, and weigh 265.  I have struggled with my weight all my life and I was diagnosed with t2 a few yrs ago. I have tried many diets and have failed.  Looking at W.W. I am concerned that it has way to many carbs, my tryglycerides are 440. way to high. So what can I do?

   thanks,       Wants to lose

I am type 1 diabetic for 32 yrs now and am on WW and love it.  It is not a high carb diet you follow.  This program just teaches you how to make better food choices.   I have noticed a huge difference in my blood sugar levels to the point I had to decrease my insulin so I did not have low sugars. 

I am a 57 year old T2 Diabetic. The disease runs in my family and I am the only sibling, so far, who has inherited it.  I have made major changes to my diet and lifestyle since being diagnosed almost five years ago.  

 

My endocrinologist told me to do the following:  avoid sugar and white flour. Eat lean protein. Limit fruit to 2 per day and eat them with your meal as opposed to as a snack. Watch my cholesterol intake and sodium intake.  Last, but not least, exercise every day for 30 minutes or more.

 

I have followed his advice; it isn't easy and takes a great deal of self-control.  I think in terms of eating to live, not living to eat. I do not want to have my body be destroyed by this illness. My mom developed the disease at age 44 and didn't take care of herself. I saw how it ravages the body.  It takes a great deal of self control but it can be done. I walk every day for 45 minutes and lift weights at home every other day.

 

It's not easy because we are surrounded by food every moment. Holidays, restaurants, cooking shows and advertisements - it's a part of our lives.  The thing to do is to not let food control you - you have to control the food.

 

I tell myself every day, and every time I want to put something in my mouth, that my life and my maintaining good health is worth more than a cookie.

 

Good luck! You can do it!  We are stronger than we realize!

 

Type2

Wow Mary you are such an inspiration.  I was diagnosed just about five years ago also.  It was cervical cancer that added 100 pounds to my 5'-6", average boned frame, back in 1994 and Graves Disease and Diabetes,  helps keep it there.  I struggle with embarrassment and shame each day because I can not deal with being fat.  I try to move on but I always end up trying another diet aid, or program.  I steer away from pills due to my fear of having Graves Disease.  I must train myself to steer away from and stay away from sugar and flour.  I love bread, plain old white bread but try not to eat it much.  I tend to slip up during ho lidays.  I was contemplating joining Weight Watchers, but their site doesn't tell a lot about whether or not they are geered towards diabetics.    So low-carb dieting is what I'm thinking.  I am also 56 years of age and have exercised almost everyday since I was 21 years old.  It is only now that I'm getting a bit discouraged by my efforts.  Nothing is working, hair is thinning, not feeling very attractive, I hide from my husband, I skip all family functions, it's a mess.  I want my life back.  I will give this another valid try #102 :-)  I've tried them all.  Thanks for your encouragement.   Lyn (Type 2)

hi lynn,

 

it took many years for me to realize that all diets work if we follow them. it's not the particular diet that breeds success; it's our choosing to follow it.  so if you have decided that it's time to make some permanent lifestyle changes you are on your way to success.  you have to do it for yourself.  i'm now 58, a divorced parent of two college age sons and know that i want to be as healthy as possible as i get even older and enter my  retirement years.  i am the only one who can make this choice.  i've been doing really well. i walk religiously and am very careful about what goes into my mouth.  i have dropped 31 lbs since xmas and my cholesterol has gone down 42 points. my a1c is below 6; my endocrinologist is so happy.  i still have another 31 to lose and hope that maybe i will be able to get off the bp meds.  

 

every morning i thank god for another day and ask him to give me strength to live a healthy lifestyle.  living in nyc i am surrounded by restaurants and some of the best bakeries but i want to be healthy more than i want to take a bite of the cherry cheesecake!  on holidays and get togethers i will allow myself a taste, and by that i mean a teaspoon, of some delicious dessert on the table.  i just make sure to walk an extra 15 minutes.

 

i was sick this past winter and it really shook me up.  the doctors were looking for cancer  - leukemia or liver cancer.  after 3 months the blood tests showed me positive for mononucleosis and was anemic due to gastritis caused by taking low dose aspirin!  i can't begin to describe how poorly i felt and i had to keep working as i am the head of household. when i was sick i had to have a stress test as they were looking for a cause for my shortness of breath. the cardiologist told me that the most important thing a person can do for their body is exercise.  it lowers cholesterol and helps use up excess glycogen.  his words have stayed with me. thank god i am well again but being sick made me so much more aware of my body and increased my desire to be well and healthy.  i tell my sons who are 21 and 25 that they have to respect the body that god gave them and treat it well starting now, when they are young men so that they avoid problems down the road.

 

do not feel overwhelmed by your current state.  you have to start somewhere and now is the best time to begin.  you can't expect the weight to pour off overnight since it didn't pour on overnight.  start changing your diet and exercising.    my hair has also thinned out; a combination of aging and the diabetes and graves disease.  i saw a dermatologist and he told me to use rogaine for men. after 3 months i should see new hair coming in.  

 

i hope my success will help inspire you.  remember that you are strong. and if you do stumble along the way just pick yourself up and continue on the right track without beating yourself up for stumbling.  

 

mary

Thank you for inspirational words

wow these few words are so inspiring. I truly feel motivated to take control of this diabetes and live a more disiplined healthy life.

reading your post is like looking in the mirror .43,type2,5ft,220.lbs very high blood sugars and triglycerides are always in the thousands ..i am trying ww again but am going to watch some of the things they say are 0 points .they said all friut were 0 points in my last meeting but i know how high the natural sugar is in the fruit .try to find a friend ,family member to join with you ..that is what i am doing this time around starting off slow but motivated .i want and need so bad to loose weight also ..

I just joined WW again and this time the program makes sense to me.  I've lost 10.8 lbs in 2 weks and like you I am short 5.2 and I weight more 235 when I started.  My goal weight is 140 and this time I am going to do it.  I was diagnosed with diabetes and this morning my blood sugar was at 124 the doctor wants me to try and bring it lower so that I won't have to go on medication.  It is tough knowing that I have a whole life of changes ahead of me.  We have to think of how we are going to live the rest of our lives and how we have to learn to do it right because we did not get like this by watching what we put in our mouths.  Portion control and wanting to be healthy and walking at least 30 minutes a day is a most for living the healthy life that I want.  Besides buying big clothes cost more I now wear a 3x and I want to get to a medium and hit all the sales.

 

Good luck

I just read your message and it is like your a replica of me.You wrote this message on my birthday and I think there is a reason for me reading it.  I have been on Herbal Magic program and find it expensive, good but very expensive. My daughter and son-in-law have just started Weight Watchers on line and showed it to me. I think I might join. I am a type2 diabetic and I think that Weight Watcher can help me. I know what to eat but tend to forget about it. Temptations are always around. I am on medication for my diabete. I really need to start exercising. I wish you the best and hope that this time is the good one. I want to feel good. So I will go on Weight Watcher on line and start.

Thank you for posting.  I am similar to your story and trying to find out if the new WW will work for me.  I haven't really like it in the past and I've tried it twice over the last 20 years.

 

When diagnosed in 2009, I immediately lost 36lbs just by following what my Doc said. Three meals of 30 carbs or less a day and 3 snacks of 15 carbs or less. The weight dissapeared in one and one half months. Then I was stuck with 30lbs to go.

 

I am 5'4" and 227 today. I just went through two breast cancer surgeries in March and so that is one of the reasons I think that I gained  little bit. I was about 223 before being diagnosed in Jan. The BC will be fine. And I will be cancer free. It was caught at it's earliest.

 

Thanks again for emailing. You had the exact answers I was looking for.

 

SGS in Pacific NW

Esther:  Your story seems a lot like mine.  I am 55, 5'5", 231# & Type 2 diabetic. My question is about your great WW weight loss success.  What type of breakfast do you have?  And how are your bc/bs numbers reading?  I would like to incorporate 1 c steel cut oats w/1 t cinnamon/stevia & 1/2 small red apple for breakfast - but often wonder if that might be too big of a carb overload for my bloodsugar.  Please let me know approx how many carbs per meals/snacks that you have been consuming to get such great weight loss & how your glucose numbers have been reading?  "Thank You..."  Keep up the marvelous work.  I too have a goal weight of 140.

Well that's great keep up the good work ,you don't say if you are type 1 or 2 I will tell you if you are type 1 it is not a easy thing to loose wait being on insulin ,you have a much better chance being type 2 no comparising of type 1 .

nutrisystem diabetics meal plan helped me lose weight stay heathy and also lower my blood sugar levels to 80 before breakfast and 93 after breakfast the food is great and you also get a different snack every night 28 breakfast,28 lunch,28 dinner, 28 snack, 28 protien shakes,you will love it!

Since you Dd doesn't get as many carbs as WW recommends can he substitue extra protein.  My husband and I want to start WW but he is diabetic and likes protein.

Since your dad has done all of that great research, Can he email it to me? I would love to follow it/  I am on ww and was so dissappointed for my first week.  I weighted in at 276 and after one week on ww i dropped only 1lb. I am now in my second week and will weigh in on Sat.  I am concerned after reading all of the comments and posts on this sight about the carbs. How many carbs should i consume daily.  On  WW the fruits and veggies are unlimited and have 0 points. I am new to being a diabetic and I rarely take Medformin.  When I do the test in the am without any food i am getting a reading of 140 or 170. Fruits tends to make our glocuse levels rise and thus will show a high reading right?

 

I want to get out of the 200's , I am 55 yrs old and will be 56 on the 24th of Sept.  I feel that i have lived over 20 yrs trapped behind this fat body.  I am a beautiful and well dressed lady; but i feel insecure about my lbs and most of the weight shows up in my mid-section.  Help

 

 

Marge