You are the master of your own destiny - and this includes as a Type 2 diabetic tackling your problems with eating and not being able to ditch the junk food for healthy food that you know will help stabilize your blood sugar levels.
Without resolving the fact...
It is possible with mindful eating to lower your blood sugar, lose weight and even reverse your Type 2 diabetes.
Is it any wonder rates of depression are soaring for people with Type 2 diabetes? Not only is this in part due to the fact they often have secondary complications to deal with such as kidney disease, heart disease and leg ulcers that can end up being so severe they cause the person to have to remove a limb.
Time after time, people with diabetes are told to eat better - and are given handouts to help encourage it.
But this isn't proving successful in the majority of cases.
This is because the root cause of problems with eating healthily is far more complex than a handout can cover.
And the root cause can vary from person to person living with Type 2 diabetes or not.
So the approach needs to be very individual.
Mindful eating practises is the answer to most problem eating faced by anyone with or without a particular health condition.
Here are the skills you need to be perfecting daily to really begin tackling problematic eating - which in short can be summed up as any type of eating that is damaging your health.
Awareness.
The starting point and most important aspect of mindful eating.
Dieting over many years is not only harmful to your thyroid it can also make you less able to respond to your body's signals.
For instance, when you diet and are not being mindful - you notice the taste of food too much.
But when you start being mindful and aware at every meal time, eventually you start to not even notice the taste of the food you eat frequently.
Observation.
By observing the thoughts that pop into your head about food, you will learn to be aware of the pattern of thought that leads you to eat mindlessly.
This skill takes time to perfect because it requires you to be non-judgemental of the thoughts that appear in your head.
You simply need to 'listen' to them and let them come and go without acting on them.
You are the master of your mind, thoughts and food you choose to eat.
Without resolving the fact...
- you continue to eat when full,
- you don't eat enough,
- you constantly diet,
- binge when stressed, or
- use food to resolve emotional issues, and
- the many problems with food a person can have -
It is possible with mindful eating to lower your blood sugar, lose weight and even reverse your Type 2 diabetes.
Is it any wonder rates of depression are soaring for people with Type 2 diabetes? Not only is this in part due to the fact they often have secondary complications to deal with such as kidney disease, heart disease and leg ulcers that can end up being so severe they cause the person to have to remove a limb.
Time after time, people with diabetes are told to eat better - and are given handouts to help encourage it.
But this isn't proving successful in the majority of cases.
This is because the root cause of problems with eating healthily is far more complex than a handout can cover.
And the root cause can vary from person to person living with Type 2 diabetes or not.
So the approach needs to be very individual.
Mindful eating practises is the answer to most problem eating faced by anyone with or without a particular health condition.
Here are the skills you need to be perfecting daily to really begin tackling problematic eating - which in short can be summed up as any type of eating that is damaging your health.
Awareness.
The starting point and most important aspect of mindful eating.
Dieting over many years is not only harmful to your thyroid it can also make you less able to respond to your body's signals.
For instance, when you diet and are not being mindful - you notice the taste of food too much.
But when you start being mindful and aware at every meal time, eventually you start to not even notice the taste of the food you eat frequently.
Observation.
By observing the thoughts that pop into your head about food, you will learn to be aware of the pattern of thought that leads you to eat mindlessly.
This skill takes time to perfect because it requires you to be non-judgemental of the thoughts that appear in your head.
You simply need to 'listen' to them and let them come and go without acting on them.
You are the master of your mind, thoughts and food you choose to eat.
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