Did you lose weight while you were attending the DPP, and has your weight changed since then?
Christine: I lost four pounds and I kept that off. I lost that the second week and now I am jut stable and stay at the four. I get my book our every now and then, but like I said, it is such a hassle to track all of these grams and keep my calories down too. That was another thing, if I keep around one thousand to eleven hundred calories, I could lose the weight, but if I stayed at the twelve hundred, I couldn’t lose any. I just wasn’t loosing. I get frustrated when I don’t see the results.
I was walking and drinking a lot of water. There are a couple little things that I have changed, like drinking more water. I never drank a lot of soda anyways, …show more content…
I try, but it doesn’t always help.
Interviewer: While you were in the program, were you more or less active?
Christine: The same.
Interviewer: I’m just getting to my last few questions here and I would like to ask about the overall benefit of the Diabetes Prevention Program for you. What would you say was the most important thing you have gained from going to the Diabetes Prevention Program sessions?
Christine: I don’t know, I guess maybe the knowledge about the fats, more so than even the sugar. I attribute diabetes with just sugars, and it’s not all sugars, and it does have to do with the fat intake.
Interviewer: You mentioned this a little bit earlier, but I am just going to ask this question again, when you think back, about your decision to stop going to the DPP, are you satisfied with that decision, or do you sometimes regret that you stopped, and if you could explain, that would be great.
Christine: Yeah, sometimes I think I wish had stayed with it longer or fished it out. That commitment that I had made, I wished I would have stayed with it, just in case there was something I missed. I am sure there is a lot of stuff I missed, I just didn’t hang in there long enough and I should have …show more content…
If you could create your own program, from all the different ones you have done over the years, what would be the ideal program look
Christine: I lost four pounds and I kept that off. I lost that the second week and now I am jut stable and stay at the four. I get my book our every now and then, but like I said, it is such a hassle to track all of these grams and keep my calories down too. That was another thing, if I keep around one thousand to eleven hundred calories, I could lose the weight, but if I stayed at the twelve hundred, I couldn’t lose any. I just wasn’t loosing. I get frustrated when I don’t see the results.
I was walking and drinking a lot of water. There are a couple little things that I have changed, like drinking more water. I never drank a lot of soda anyways, …show more content…
I try, but it doesn’t always help.
Interviewer: While you were in the program, were you more or less active?
Christine: The same.
Interviewer: I’m just getting to my last few questions here and I would like to ask about the overall benefit of the Diabetes Prevention Program for you. What would you say was the most important thing you have gained from going to the Diabetes Prevention Program sessions?
Christine: I don’t know, I guess maybe the knowledge about the fats, more so than even the sugar. I attribute diabetes with just sugars, and it’s not all sugars, and it does have to do with the fat intake.
Interviewer: You mentioned this a little bit earlier, but I am just going to ask this question again, when you think back, about your decision to stop going to the DPP, are you satisfied with that decision, or do you sometimes regret that you stopped, and if you could explain, that would be great.
Christine: Yeah, sometimes I think I wish had stayed with it longer or fished it out. That commitment that I had made, I wished I would have stayed with it, just in case there was something I missed. I am sure there is a lot of stuff I missed, I just didn’t hang in there long enough and I should have …show more content…
If you could create your own program, from all the different ones you have done over the years, what would be the ideal program look