Tips for losing weight
- Speak to your diabetes healthcare team for help with a good exercise plan and ask to see a dietician for more advice about how to adjust your diet and insulin.
- Try to increase your amount of physical activity at the same time as decreasing your food intake, by a sensible amount.
- Write down everything you eat over the course of three days so you can see exactly what your energy intake is. Your dietician will also find this information useful when giving you advice about your diet.
- Incorporate more exercise into your everyday life, such as walking, gardening and using the stairs.
- To give weight loss a proper chance, choose a diet that you think you are likely to stick to and set yourself a realistic target in terms of weight loss.
- There are lots of different diets and no diet is right for everyone. If you've tried one type before and it hasn't worked, try another.
- The support of others will help you achieve better results than working at weight loss alone. Find a friend to diet and exercise with or join a weight loss group, to keep you motivated.
- Try to avoid losing weight too quickly. A slow and steady weight loss is better.
- It is worth losing weight no matter how hard changing your lifestyle seems, as even a small amount of weight loss can lead to big improvements in your glucose control, blood pressure and general health.
