Making progress

 

Over the last 4 weeks, we've provided you with a lot of information to help you make a fresh start with your type 2 diabetes.

 

Now could be a good time to review your progress over the last few weeks.

At the start, we talked about the importance of setting goals and writing down your plans to help increase your chances of success. One of two things has probably happened:

 

1. You've made some changes. Hopefully, you made celebrating success part of your plan! Go ahead and celebrate.
2. You haven't yet got going with making any changes. It's important not to think too much about what hasn't happened. It helps to learn from mistakes and fail forward. Remember the lesson from the failure email? Fail forwards. Learn from what went wrong, pick yourself up and treat yourself like your best friend.

 

It might be helpful to go back and look at your change plan or goals. Or make them for the first time. Remind yourself about your reasons for wanting to make some changes. Our change plan helps you do this.

 

Remember, one small step at a time, done consistently, makes all the difference between making progress and standing still.

 

Over the last 4 weeks, we've covered goal setting, remission, weight loss, low carb, and intermittent fasting. We've also touched on dealing with failure and shame, and how to bounce back or escape from the prison they can create.

 

One of the key messages we shared was that by losing 10kg, you have a really high chance of achieving remission from type 2 diabetes. That means coming off diabetes medication and having a normal blood sugar. Visit Lose weight | Know Diabetes for more information and tips on how to lose weight and become more active.

 

"I've been struggling with my weight for a long time, and I thought the scale would never move. When I went on the scale and it shifted I was shocked. For once something was working for me and the weight loss has been amazing." - Annette

 

We've created a collection of useful resources, which could help keep you going in achieving your goals. Take a look at these and see if there are any that you find useful. They include:

 

• SMART goal setting sheet
• Change plan
• Meal planner
• 3 day food diary
• Low carb meal plans (vegetarian and non-vegetarian)
• Walking log
• Food journal
• Weight loss tracker (metric and imperial)

Harjinder struggled with making changes when she was diagnosed but was helped by having her problems listened to by her doctor. Watch her powerful story.

"Three things in life - your health, your mission and the people you love. That's it." 

- Naval

David made some significant changes and felt the benefits. Watch his video to find out more.

"For years I carried on, battling with food, battling with life, being diabetic, working full-time." Shivali is now in remission, 10 years after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Read her story or watch the video.