Don't sweat it too much... Don't think of having to bar ALL the good stuff!
Just try and pick heathy foods and get exercise--maybe a pedometer and find a park or a mall or something interesting to look at where you can walk, and start doing it regularly. --just go to the gym every once in a while.
With the carbs and sugars--just try and avoid them if you can, and if you can't, just keep the portion as low as possible.
But as other have said--you do NOT want to get diabetes. Then you'll have to really be harsh with your diet and have all kinds of possible nasty complications (blindness, losing body parts, heart disease, strokes--plus having to take medication and pricking yourself for blood test, going to see lots of doctors and paying for medications-- It's just NOT worth it.
And keeping yourself in better shape and more healthy is important anyway!!!
Just look at it as trying to take better care of yourself.
You'll feel better and have more energy and be saving yourself from a mess of trouble if you can just cut down on sugars and carbs a bit.
I still eat pizza and pasta, I just try to not have a ton of slices of pizza at one sitting!
Definitely try at least to have a healthier diet and exercise... It's really better that way than getting into serious health problems!!!
--Keep portion size down to about a closed-fist size of pasta or one slice of pizza--and skip having more than one portion of carbs at one meal.
You can do it!!! It's not bad.
I LOVE food--and of course it's the sugar and carbs I love the most!!! But I should have listened to my doctor who warned me that I should be careful. It totally sucks having Diabetes...
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Date: 3 Aug 2007 00:39 (UTC)Just try and pick heathy foods and get exercise--maybe a pedometer and find a park or a mall or something interesting to look at where you can walk, and start doing it regularly. --just go to the gym every once in a while.
With the carbs and sugars--just try and avoid them if you can, and if you can't, just keep the portion as low as possible.
But as other have said--you do NOT want to get diabetes. Then you'll have to really be harsh with your diet and have all kinds of possible nasty complications (blindness, losing body parts, heart disease, strokes--plus having to take medication and pricking yourself for blood test, going to see lots of doctors and paying for medications-- It's just NOT worth it.
And keeping yourself in better shape and more healthy is important anyway!!!
Just look at it as trying to take better care of yourself.
You'll feel better and have more energy and be saving yourself from a mess of trouble if you can just cut down on sugars and carbs a bit.
I still eat pizza and pasta, I just try to not have a ton of slices of pizza at one sitting!
Definitely try at least to have a healthier diet and exercise... It's really better that way than getting into serious health problems!!!
--Keep portion size down to about a closed-fist size of pasta or one slice of pizza--and skip having more than one portion of carbs at one meal.
You can do it!!! It's not bad.
I LOVE food--and of course it's the sugar and carbs I love the most!!! But I should have listened to my doctor who warned me that I should be careful. It totally sucks having Diabetes...
Good luck!!!