Morning Check In: My absolute highest health priority is to keep the Type 2 diabetes reversed, and I have been highly successful with that. However, I could feel healthy habits beginning to slip in 2025, and I noticed I was getting sloppy with snacking and exercise. More exceptions to my healthy eating strategy were showing up. So I’ve made some conscisous changes. I’ve been working on habits, including getting some daily exercise, paying attention to carb intake, and not eating sugar or grains, plus mostly avoiding starchy vegies. I feel like I’ve successfully (for now) calmed the urges to eat sugar and grains, and I am very rarely snacking. I am typically eating two meals a day. I’ve found really good success at not snacking after dinner by eating a home-made metabolically friendly chocolate chip cookie for dessert. It feels sustainable to me to have a treat like that once a day. All of these techniques used to result in weight loss if I had weight to lose. However, now, my weight stays stubbornly the same every day, and I want to lose a few pounds! I am going to add paying better attention to portion size of both lunch and dinner, which is not something I used to need to do in order to lose weight. But this is a lifelong process that has to be adjusted over time. Techniques to lose weight in the past are not quite the same when I want to lose weight now! I also sit too much. I’m going to work on more “exercise snacks” throughout the day. On the plus side, blood sugar is looking great! And I know that must ALWAYS come first before weight can be lost! High blood sugar means high insulin. High insulin means no weight can be lost. Today it’s two meals, keep total carbs (not counting non-starchy vegies) to below 30, get some walking in and watch those portion sizes! Also, continue to publicize blood sugar! That is really helping me to stay on track.

Posted by Sar8ken at 2026-01-13 15:21:00 UTC