No willpower. Just cba

[Peachyscream]

I have pcos
I have t1 diabetes (using insulin)
i have the hormone coil in
i have depression and anxiety (on sertraline)
Im short and fat
It is SO HARD to lose weight.

Sorry about your situation. Eating better and feeling good about what you've eaten should help with your depression. Do you enjoy eating healthy food? Looks like that is the only option. www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/pcos-diet

I would avoid attempting to go on a prescriptive diet. What are your worst eating habits?

Worst habits are that I don’t make separate meals for myself- too much carbs means the insulin dosage is high, and it’s a growth hormone, so causes weight gain
and I binge eat at night. In bed. Disgusting habit but it’s my comfort me time.

Start somewhere and start small.

One little thing such as...
go for a 10 minute walk
replace a sugary drink with water
put 1/2 a tsp less sugar in your hot drinks if you use it
buy a box of grapes to evening snack on, or pop plain popcorn

Observe how it feels to have done something good for yourself.
Does it feel good? Do you feel you could do it again? Do another small thing?

You need to stop the comfort eating in bed altogether, taking something else like fruit isn't going to work as you will still have that habit of eating in bed.

Can you take half an hour a day to prep some meals that will be all yours? Because healthy food does tend to involve more prep and it's easier to reach for a snack, of have toast or cereal. But if there were a really delicious salad in the fridge you could eat that instead. Something like chopped avocado, beans, onion, red pepper, parsley, lemon salt and olive oil. Or a Greek salad. These are both protein heavy and filling. Some cold roast chicken, a fruit salad, boiled eggs.

Clean your bedroom, change the sheets. Sort out your bedside table. If you normally eat in bed whilst watching something on a screen, take a really good book instead and a cup of tea. No food in the bedroom anymore.

That is so simple but really good advice. Thank you

You could try going vegetarian/vegan.

Watching a netflix show yesterday and it said vegan diets were the vest thing to reverse diabetes. A guy was told he'd be blind in a year with his diabetes. Went vegan and reversed his diagnosis.

If vegan is too tricky you can start with veggie as much as possible and maybr try to reduce the other animal products more as you go along.

I've been flitting between veggie and vegan this last year, just because I saw what was going on in the animal agriculture industry and decided I didn't really want to contribute to all that suffering. So that kinda provides my incentive personally. But lots of ppl do it for health (But if you think 'oh it might be too hard' take a look into the animal 'welfare' in these places yourself and that might also help you to stick to plant based).

I've definitely not got it perfect. But it's been fun trying new things. Might mean your kiddos will get used to eating a wide range of veggies too if they see you trying them.

Obviously it can mean more time spent cooking sometimes. But if its for your health then surely its worth it. And you could always batch cook.

Also- slimming world meetings might be worthwhile. I lost more weight when I knew I had a weight in due at the end of the week xD

@Pinkbonbon
T1 Diabetes is an autoimmune condition and isn't reversible. You're confusing it with T2.

Ah my bad.

It's good for over all health and removing visceral fat too apparently though if your weight is a worry.

Also sometimes a complete change and overhaul shakes things up a bit and gets you excited about trying new things.

I’m also type one diabetic and get it, losing weight while taking insulin is really hard. I’m still early days in terms of weight loss but seem to be having some success now after a lot of false starts. Finally getting a continuous glucose monitor (Dexcom One in my case) has been a bit part of that as it’s helping me avoid hypos and the calories to treat them/intense hunger that follows. This was particularly useful as weight started to come off and my insulin needs reduced. It can be an absolute rollercoaster though!