What Type 2 Diabetics Can Do About Overeating During Stress!
There is probably no bigger conundrum in managing Type 2 diabetes than this: Managing diabetes is stressful.
It takes a lot of emotional energy simply to handle 'normal' daily events: your job, your family, finances, other health issues, and just plain growing older.
Add to that Type 2 diabetes, and it's not surprising that people with diabetes find it difficult to cope from time to time.
Stress makes most people want to eat, and high blood sugar levels increase your appetite.
Relieving stress by eating is guaranteed to send blood sugar levels soaring...
so what's a person with Type 2 to do? Just as there is a once-a-day miracle for appetite management, there is also a once-a-day miracle for stress management.
The next time you feel stressed out, don't drive down to the bakery.
Don't go out and buy a fifth of whiskey or a bottle of good wine.
Don't light up, whether it's tobacco or something herbal.
Instead, write down on a piece of paper what is really bothering you.
At least try this step first.
Taking time aside to articulate what is bothering you is the first step in enlisting the powers of your conscious brain for helping you find a way forward.
The act of writing requires that your brain activate the prefrontal cortex, and this is the part of your brain that gives you solutions to problems...
or tells you that the problem doesn't really matter, or doesn't matter right now.
It also helps to cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
Even if you have a resentful attitude, simply writing down five things in your life that you appreciate, calms your brain's limbic centers.
You will feel less stress with your appetite, sex drive, or anger as the energy your brain was using to fire your limbic centers is used to fire your prefrontal cortex.
Spending about a minute every day just to write down those things you appreciate in your life can help you follow your conscious plans for controlling Type 2 diabetes.
And it can make you a much more pleasant person for the people around you.
One more way to get conscious control over your Type 2 diabetes! Control your ANTs, your automatic negative thoughts.
If you find yourself having the same negative thought over and over again, jot it down.
Look at it objectively.
Or if you are just too stressed out, save the piece of paper you used to write your ANTs and look at it later.
This exercise helps you think outside your box and find new ways to live out the healthy principles you already know.
Feeling frustrated and stressed is not going to help you manage your Type 2 diabetes.
It takes a lot of emotional energy simply to handle 'normal' daily events: your job, your family, finances, other health issues, and just plain growing older.
Add to that Type 2 diabetes, and it's not surprising that people with diabetes find it difficult to cope from time to time.
Stress makes most people want to eat, and high blood sugar levels increase your appetite.
Relieving stress by eating is guaranteed to send blood sugar levels soaring...
so what's a person with Type 2 to do? Just as there is a once-a-day miracle for appetite management, there is also a once-a-day miracle for stress management.
The next time you feel stressed out, don't drive down to the bakery.
Don't go out and buy a fifth of whiskey or a bottle of good wine.
Don't light up, whether it's tobacco or something herbal.
Instead, write down on a piece of paper what is really bothering you.
At least try this step first.
Taking time aside to articulate what is bothering you is the first step in enlisting the powers of your conscious brain for helping you find a way forward.
The act of writing requires that your brain activate the prefrontal cortex, and this is the part of your brain that gives you solutions to problems...
or tells you that the problem doesn't really matter, or doesn't matter right now.
It also helps to cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
Even if you have a resentful attitude, simply writing down five things in your life that you appreciate, calms your brain's limbic centers.
You will feel less stress with your appetite, sex drive, or anger as the energy your brain was using to fire your limbic centers is used to fire your prefrontal cortex.
Spending about a minute every day just to write down those things you appreciate in your life can help you follow your conscious plans for controlling Type 2 diabetes.
And it can make you a much more pleasant person for the people around you.
One more way to get conscious control over your Type 2 diabetes! Control your ANTs, your automatic negative thoughts.
If you find yourself having the same negative thought over and over again, jot it down.
Look at it objectively.
Or if you are just too stressed out, save the piece of paper you used to write your ANTs and look at it later.
This exercise helps you think outside your box and find new ways to live out the healthy principles you already know.
Feeling frustrated and stressed is not going to help you manage your Type 2 diabetes.
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