nikki

im trying not to think about you; can't you just let me be?

[hatin]

“I think part of the reason why we hold so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice”

— unknown (via hatin)

[cutelildevil]

Okay so I get so many messages asking how I lost all the weight in three months and I can’t be bothered replying to everyone so i’m just going to write a post about it. So basically my weight loss took exactly one hundred days and I set myself a lot of rules that I didn’t break in order to lose it all.

1. Sit down as little as possible. There’s so much you could be doing that doesn’t involve sitting on your phone like cleaning your room (wiping all the surfaces, making your bed, vacuuming, doing a load of washing etc.), organising your draws and cupboards, pampering yourself (painting your nails, washing your face, moisturising, doing a face mask, tanning etc.). Just basically anything is better than sitting down, even when i’m on tumblr I walk around my room I never sit still.

2. Only ever eat one meal. I actually never counted calories when I was losing weight. I would have a coffee in the morning and allow myself to eat one meal at any time with any calories during the day. I found as long as I kept up all my other rules and only ever ate once I would lose weight so yes I was still eating McDonalds while I was losing weight and no I would not gain.

3. Set yourself a daily beauty routine. Not only did I want my body to look good but I wanted to look good too so I started a beauty routine for my hair, face and body that I did everyday. Not only was it a good distraction but I always looked good and got a shit tonne of compliments.

4. Exercise for at least an hour a day. This is where heaps of people fuck up. And no i’m not talking about going for a walk for an hour or sticking strictly to cardio I did a lot of ab and glute exercises because if you’re only doing cardio you may be losing weight but you can still be flabby, if you want a body that you see on tumblr you’re going to have to tone yourself up. I always did my muscle building exercises after dinner.

5. Drink 2L water everyday. Every single night before bed I’d fill up my water bottle and put it in the fridge without fail so every morning I would have 2L of cold water for the day.

So yeah, it’s more about being consistent and having a routine that you don’t fuck up then being really obsessive about calories and then accidentally slipping up and binging.

[remanence-of-love]

[honeychubs]

Non-Scale Victories to Look Out For

• Better body temperature regulation

• Not tiring out as quickly

• Sleeping better

• Regularity in the bathroom

• Spatial awareness - fitting through things easier, not hitting hips or body on the corner of things or doorways

• Starting to crave unhealthy things less

• Looser clothing is an obvious one, even smaller shoe size

• In some cases with more water consumption, and I know it helped with me but the fading of stretch marks as I lost weight

• Positive demeanor, likely to be more motivated to do everyday things

Feel free to add on! There are soooo many ways to measure your progress other than the scale, it’s so easy to be discouraged but please look for other indicators like these!

[hoopdogz]

love when pets walk by like they have somewhere to be

[squatslowstandardshigh]

[diabetic-aesthetic]

[lilmoth95]

““Die mad about it” is my favorite shade ever. Now stop making women justify wanting birth control coverage because of all the other health care benefits the Pill has.”

[lottesfitnessworld]

[remanence-of-love]

[cwote]

Whatever you do, do it for you :))

[outfit-of-the-day-girls]

[thelittlepick]

Didn’t mean to be a downer on this one, but it does strike you when people say “Just get over it.”

We all share in a basic life, ups and downs/ ins and outs. Type 1 Diabetes in its daily trial makes the day feel strange. 4-8 times a day stop check count inject no matter the sorrow or happiness or daily struggles everyone faces.

[mylazypancreas]

💜💜

[diabetiquette]

so at clinical today we had a guest speaker who was an endo nurse practitioner and gave a lecture on diabetes and this one thing she said i really liked and stuck with a bunch of my classmates

“diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, not of the mouth” 

i know a lot of people think diabetes and think “too much food” “overweight” “lose weight and exercise and youll control your blood sugar” ((and thats even whats taught in my nursing classes two weeks ago - that lifestyle change comes before medication but thats not really the right path most of the time))

she also said that “if diabetes was a disease of the mouth, everyone would be diabetic.” 

i just thought thats a little piece that we need to hold on to sometimes, that its the same as if you had any other organ failure, and isn’t your fault at all and you cant control what your body does sometimes

[diabetiquette]

I want to be clear that this post was meant for type 1 AND type 2 diabetics

((i dont care if weight or diet is a major risk factor for type 2 it still isnt the only reason they got diagnosed and sure as fuck isnt their fault that they have the genetic predisposition and they don’t deserve to be treated like shit))

If you aren’t diabetic please dont comment on this as it obviously isn’t something meant for or directed to you

[brownheadedcowbird]

me: i have an autoimmune disease that destroyed the beta cells in my pancreas, so my body doesn’t make insulin anymore and i have to inject it 24/7 to stay alive

people: aw that sounds awful! :(

me: yeah its called diabetes

people: haha so did you used to be fat or something? my grandma has that. what did you do to deserve it? try cinnamon tea!

[diabolicaldiabetic]

PSA for my nonbetic friends

Please feel free to:

ask me about my pump

ask me about my food preferences

ask me about glucose testing

ask me about carb counting

ask me about how high blood sugar feels

ask me about how low blood sugar feels

ask me about how you can help in emergency situations

ask me about all of the crap you constantly see me lugging around

ASK ME anything!

Please do not:

assume what I can and cannot eat (spoiler alert, I can and WILL eat that)

force yourself to look away when I’m taking my medicine, even though you and I both know you’re curious

judge me for how much I am eating when I’m low

try to educate me about ways to “cure or improve” my illness

bring my weight into a conversation about why I have diabetes

tell me you get kinda shaky when you don’t eat too

make jokes about getting diabetes from sugary foods

react in any sort of negative way if I have to take my insulin in front of you

REACT IN ANY SORT OF NEGATIVE WAY IF I HAVE TO TAKE MY INSULIN IN FRONT OF YOU