Eating well/losing weight
way to help you train your brain to stop and
5
Waist not, wheat not
think before you go on to overindulge. Don’t get sucked into the ‘I have a
wheat intolerance that’s why I’m
‘Why will losing
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Eat little and often bloated’ bandwagon (unless, of course, you weight around
Regular meals are certainly a good have been diagnosed by a doctor as such).
my middle make a
thing. Overdo it at one sitting and Generally, there is nothing wrong with eating
your body will feed back to you in some way – wheat; in fact, avoiding wholegrain breads is
signifi cant difference
either from the inside or when you hear your probably counterproductive as you get less
to my diabetes?’
trouser button popping! Your best bet is to eat fi bre that way.
smaller meals at regular intervals and avoid
People with diabetes have an
large meals at any one time.
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Beat the bloat
increased risk of getting heart
Eat rich, fatty meals and you’re more
problems. When you put weight on
likely to feel bloated. So, yet again,
around the tummy – called ‘central
‘I’m a classic apple
fatty foods get the thumbs down.
obesity’ – you are even more at
shape – am I kidding
risk of developing heart disease. So
Move more
one of the biggest favours you can
myself that I can Okay, so you’re tired of the get-more-
do yourself is to eat better and be
shift weight from
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active message, but just think about it.
more active, so you can lose weight
Sitting on your backside in the car, at work,
around your waist.
my waist?’
at home, isn’t going to help your tummy
If you have diabetes, the insulin
muscles or your digestion. Get into the habit
in your body is less able to move
First step: believe you can shift
of adding simple and easy activities into your the glucose from the blood into
weight from your waist! We tend
daily routine. It could mean you lose the your muscles where it can be used
to focus on the things we feel we
remote control, or use the stairs instead of for energy. So your blood glucose
can’t do but there seems to be
the escalator. Even walking up the escalator is levels stay high. If you find ways
some power in focusing on what
better than standing still. of improving your sensitivity to
you do want and can achieve. They
your own insulin, then that insulin
say energy flows where attention
Go low, low, low is likely to be able to work better,
goes, so put your attention into
There are studies to show that a helping to keep your blood glucose
your healthier waistline. You might
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balanced low-glycaemic index (GI)
levels more under control.
want to put up a past photo of
diet can help reduce the fat around your belly.
By losing even an inch from
yourself when you had a trimmer
When you lose weight on a diet, you’ll often
your waist, you could improve how
waist, so you have something
lose muscle rather than fat. Fat you store
sensitive you are to insulin. This
visual and real to focus on. Truly
around your waistline is thought to be more
could in time affect the dose of
believe your waistline is shrinking,
harmful than fat stored anywhere else, so
your medication.
and set some healthy weight-loss
low-GI diets might just be helpful in trimming
goals for yourself, so you lose
your waist. (To learn more about GI, check
weight while watching your waist
out issue 11.) ‘You and your body are the sum total of the
get slimmer.
choices that you have made up until now.
Of course, your genetics and
Does my bum look big Your body acts as your mirror. If you look at
the way your body shape is meant
in this? your physiology today, you know how you
to be will have an effect, but doing
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‘Your body exists now as a result of were thinking all the yesterdays. So, if in your
some tummy exercises and eating
the choices you have made through your life, thinking you were content enough to be a
well could help you make that
in the past, up to this point, today,’ points couch potato, your physiology will resemble
important shift in fat distribution.
out Nina Puddefoot, business coach and this. If you want to know how you will look
co-author of The GI Plan (Vermilion, £7.99). tomorrow, examine your thinking today!’ So
start thinking about a slimmer, trimmer waist
and make choices that help you reach your
healthy lifestyle goals.
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Tuck it in
Your posture has a lot to do with
your waistline. Try this now: sit
up tall, hold your tummy in (but make sure
you’re still breathing). Imagine you have a
SHUTTERSTOCK
belt on that has 10 holes. Fasten your
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