Type 2 diabetes and diet
If you have already been diagnosed and want to understand what part diet, your relationship with food and everyday choices can play alongside treatment.
Here you will find perspectives on your relationship with food, weight management, diabetes and everyday choices. Pick the topic that is relevant to you right now.
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If you have already been diagnosed and want to understand what part diet, your relationship with food and everyday choices can play alongside treatment.
If your blood sugar values are borderline and you want to understand what is worth starting to look at in your everyday life.
If you have lost weight before but later found yourself back in the same situation.
If you want to begin with why today's food environment makes choices difficult.
Type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, diet and GLP-1 medication raise questions about what you can do in your everyday life alongside treatment. These articles look at the role of diet and your relationship with food, and at why changing medication is always a matter for your doctor.
The role of diet and your relationship with food in type 2 diabetes care: alongside treatment, not instead of it. Understanding without forbidden-food lists.
What may be useful to look at in the borderline stage of prediabetes: your everyday life, your relationship with food and medical follow-up side by side.
What GLP-1 medication can solve and what it does not solve on its own: everyday habits, emotional eating and learned patterns.
Why changing medication is a matter for your doctor, and what is still in your own hands in daily life. A change in your relationship with food alongside treatment, without promises.
Weight management, yo-yo dieting and lasting weight loss are not solved by knowing what you should eat. These articles look at why weight can return after dieting, how time-limited diets affect eating, and what you can explore in your own habits without counting calories.
Why weight can return, and what everyday structures in weight management you can look at without counters. Understanding before rules.
Why a time-limited attempt at dieting can lead back to the same place. Understanding can help break the cycle, not just one more attempt.
Why days off and diet breaks can keep the cycle going, and what you can explore in your own life instead of forbidden-food lists.
Why tiredness can hit in the afternoon and why an extra coffee may not be enough. Steadier energy can be built from small additions, not from new rules or counters.
Why modern life can feel difficult and why willpower alone does not always suffice. A human-biology view of everyday choices.
Changing your relationship with food can also show up in body image, self-esteem, your relationship and the language used about the change. These articles deal with a person's own experience and with how to talk about health changes without general promises of results.
How your own experience of your body can affect closeness and self-esteem, without assuming a single path of change or outcome.
Why JP's site avoids fat-burning, superfood and biohacker vocabulary and explains in plain language how a relationship with food can change.
What WILDERBODY® promises and what it does not: no medical advice and no claims of curing diseases. How personal and client experiences are kept apart from evidence.
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