On this episode… I discuss my how and why I made my medication decisions with Type 2 Diabetes. I also touch on dealing with temptations. As part of my Week in Review, I share some great walks on local rail trails. I also provide an update on my progress using Mounjaro, and review Type 2 Diabetes news articles.
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Avoiding Temptation
How do you deal with mental pressure around high-temptation foods? before Mounjaro, when I was tempted by food, I would often find, movement to be a good alternative. if the food was in the house and I just sat there thinking about it and thinking about it and thinking about it, I would usually, go get some.
And then if it was highly processed, highly palatable, I would usually go get quite a bit. To avoid that, I had two strategies. First of all not bring it into the house, which I think is the most solid sound way that worked for me. Might not work for you, but it worked for me. I would not take the effort of going out to a restaurant to get, french fries or nuggets or whatever.
I would, if it wasn’t the house, I would eat it. I’d eat something else, That was hopefully more helpful and helpful to me. But then if it was in the house, because I’m not the only one who buys things for the household if it was in the house, I would try and if I could get outside and walk off the temptation, so to speak, getting outside 20, 30-minute walk, and by the time I got back A, I would usually feel much better, and B, that temptation usually would’ve passed.
Now, for other people I hear them say, oh, drink some water. have a salad, do other things like that. But for me, I tried not to have it in the house, to begin with, but if it was in the house, then I would try and literally escape it by movement. And that was the way I dealt with it. Now, if I’m out on, at a restaurant and I saw something on a menu I wanted, I would get it because I knew that portion was controlled.
Now, if it was too much, then try and limit the portion, but I knew that wasn’t just a huge box or a bag or a container of something sitting in the house. it wasn’t a whole, stack of boxes of Girl Scout cookies that I could just completely devour. It was usually, a dessert, a dish like that.
And, once in a while, because we don’t go out to eat that often, then I would just have it. So I hope that’s helpful.

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