Diet - my story so far!

[Pixix]

When diagnosed with PMR...within 2 months I was diagnosed prediabetic. I was already overweight from steroids for lung issues a few years ago, and hadn't been able to shift the excess. I went onto the keto diet, while on 15mg steroids. I lost a stone in 7 weeks but as soon as I stopped it it went back on then another stone on top. I found it hard as it meant I generally ate different food from my husband, so the easy make 2 ham rolls for a quick lunch, became two different items!! I reversed the prediabetes within 2 months, and have had blood tests since and all has been OK. I didn't diet again for 11 months, and two stone just went on..I swear it goes on without me eating anything!! I am currently on the 5:2 diet and lost three quarters of a stone in 8 weeks but this is easier on the mind & on the meal planning and purchasing food, and I can eat a lot of the same things as husband! Keto was harder due to no carbs at all whereas with 5:2 I am eating some carbs on 5 days a week and choosing to be very low carb as well as low calorie on 2 days a week. On the 'fasting' days you know you only have to make it through that day and you can then

have a treat on some of the other days! I think I will probably need to be on 5:2 for a year, and then perhaps 6:1 for life, if I want to carry on having treats like ice cream in the summer, and bread and cake and biscuits sometimes!

[SheffieldJane]

How interesting. I admire your tenacity.

[Pixix in reply to SheffieldJane]

So do I but wish my tenacity would last longer! I’ve been dieting since I was 17. My nickname at school was Tubbs. I’m only five foot tall and reckon if I was about 6 feet I’d be slimmer! Thanks, S x

[piglette]

As my mother said “even air is fattening!!”

[Pixix in reply to piglette]

She’s right, definitely! S x

[piglette in reply to Pixix]

Mind you when we were in Austria climbing up a mountain it was getting hotter and hotter and my mother explained it to us “we are closer to the sun!!”

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

Er - she was correct: the radiant heat from the sun is greater at altitude because there is less air protecting you

[piglette in reply to PMRpro]

We were only about 500 feet up!!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to piglette]

[Pixix in reply to piglette]

LOL, we were at about 13,000 ft!!!!!!!!! Bit of a difference!

[piglette in reply to Pixix]

I thought that was being in an aircraft!

[Pixix in reply to piglette]

Very nearly...but actually up on a Swiss mountain! I did fly our hot air balloon up to 12,000 feet, that was quite rarefied!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

Heading for 4,000m - that is serious altitude ... Have done the Dachstein glacier once (a mere 2,700m) and that was more than enough! Watched teenagers on a skiing trip crawling up the steps from the top of the drag lift to the lift back to the valley.

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

Yep! We flew our hot air balloon is winter in the Dachstein area. A friend got blown off course and landed on the Dachstein glacier and had to pay £500 for a helicopter air lift! The high altitude didn’t seem to affect me at all, I found it very exhilarating! We went to Switzerland every summer with my parents, they honeymooned there in 1947 and we all loved it. David and I started going after we’d been married a couple of years, summer hiking and winter skiing, just wonderful!

[Constance13 in reply to piglette]

😂😂😂

[Pixix in reply to piglette]

Absolutely! I got very hot hiking in mountains in the summer (and a bit burnt despite factor 50 sun cream). My Dad used to call it ‘rarefied air’!

[S4ndy]

The 5:2 is working for me too. It's a slow weight loss but the first time I haven't put it all back on. I agree with you I think I will need to keep to this long term. It's flexible too and so easy to adapt to life. My diabetic hubby has joined me too and also lost weight. He's a terror as he loves sweet things

[Pixix in reply to S4ndy]

Good news! Our husbands must be brothers in the love of sweet things but that’s hard for your husband if he has diabetes! I think it works for me as only two days a week I diet and the rest I can have a treat! It’s the most ‘human’ diet I’ve tried! Thanks, S x

[S4ndy]

I agree, today was my fast day, tomorrow I can have a treat. Much easier than other types of dieting

[Pixix in reply to S4ndy]

Same here! Yesterday my diet day, today I can have an ice cream!

[S4ndy]

Sounds like we have the same guilty pleasure

[Pixix in reply to S4ndy]

Oh yes! S x

[Koalajane]

I went on the LCHF diet and that has worked well for me. I do have the rare treat. It got my type 2 into remission along with lots of walking.

[Pixix in reply to Koalajane]

The keto diet month sent my diabetes away! Think it’s just the same as LCHF!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

I think technically with keto there is a strict limit to carbs, with LCHF there isn't

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

Yes I don’t think I had any carbs in a month at all!