Interviewer: Christine, can I just get a verbal yes that you agree to participate?
Christine: Yes, I agree to participate.
Interviewer: Thank you. So, as a background, I would like to hear from you on how you think about diabetes and about your own health. Can you start by talking a little bit about what you know about diabetes?
Christine: It’s when you make too much sugar and you’re not getting rid of enough of it I guess. That’s all I know.
Interviewer: And, in your perception, do you think it’s a serious disease and can it be prevented or delayed?
Christine: Oh, sure. I think it can be. Obviously, it’s serious and I think it can be prevented and, or delayed too. Yes, I think it can be both.
Interviewer: From your perception, how …show more content…
What were the reasons you stopped coming to the sessions?
Christine: Okay, the reasons I stopped. Everything I was learning, I had already known. I could write my own diet book, I have been on so many of them, and I did not like counting the calories and figuring out every little fat detail, or gram of fat. I didn’t have a problem with measuring and figuring that out, but to sit down and have to go through the book, and I eat a lot of casserole stuff. Not your store bought where everything is written on the back of the ingredient box.
So, to sit down and figure out what’s in my tuna noodle casserole, I don’t eat that, but just to say, okay, I have a cup of noodles, and how much tuna fish is in this, and how many peas are in this. I didn’t like that at all. So, that is probably the biggest reason that I quit it. I quit before we got to the exercise part. I sometimes wish I would have stayed a little longer, to see if there were areas here that I could have went to. Like the Silver Sneaker Fitness Program, or some of the areas here, where I wouldn’t have to join a gym, or something like that, to get the exercise I need, other than just walking, because that is all I do is …show more content…
They were fine and informative. Just refreshed my memory, but it was stuff that I had already learned from watching Dr. Oz, the other doctors, reading cookbooks, because its pretty much all the same thing. If you have a good diet, and you have exercise, then I really believe we can keep the diabetes in control. The fats, I did learn that and it was informative, but I just don’t like having to count every time I turn around. I’m lazy, I guess.
I wasn’t the only one, but some of them had aps they could go to on their phones, and they could punch it in, I don’t have that access. I don’t have a smartphone, I don’t have a computer, and I am not going to run to the library every time I figure out what I want to eat. My book was helpful, but when you make your own stuff, and I can my own foods, its different than going to the store and buying a box of something. It’s all right there on the label and my stuff isn’t like the stuff at the store.
Interviewer: That is really a good point. Would you say that the information was important for you to know to lose weight and you know that these are the things that you have to
Christine: Yes, I agree to participate.
Interviewer: Thank you. So, as a background, I would like to hear from you on how you think about diabetes and about your own health. Can you start by talking a little bit about what you know about diabetes?
Christine: It’s when you make too much sugar and you’re not getting rid of enough of it I guess. That’s all I know.
Interviewer: And, in your perception, do you think it’s a serious disease and can it be prevented or delayed?
Christine: Oh, sure. I think it can be. Obviously, it’s serious and I think it can be prevented and, or delayed too. Yes, I think it can be both.
Interviewer: From your perception, how …show more content…
What were the reasons you stopped coming to the sessions?
Christine: Okay, the reasons I stopped. Everything I was learning, I had already known. I could write my own diet book, I have been on so many of them, and I did not like counting the calories and figuring out every little fat detail, or gram of fat. I didn’t have a problem with measuring and figuring that out, but to sit down and have to go through the book, and I eat a lot of casserole stuff. Not your store bought where everything is written on the back of the ingredient box.
So, to sit down and figure out what’s in my tuna noodle casserole, I don’t eat that, but just to say, okay, I have a cup of noodles, and how much tuna fish is in this, and how many peas are in this. I didn’t like that at all. So, that is probably the biggest reason that I quit it. I quit before we got to the exercise part. I sometimes wish I would have stayed a little longer, to see if there were areas here that I could have went to. Like the Silver Sneaker Fitness Program, or some of the areas here, where I wouldn’t have to join a gym, or something like that, to get the exercise I need, other than just walking, because that is all I do is …show more content…
They were fine and informative. Just refreshed my memory, but it was stuff that I had already learned from watching Dr. Oz, the other doctors, reading cookbooks, because its pretty much all the same thing. If you have a good diet, and you have exercise, then I really believe we can keep the diabetes in control. The fats, I did learn that and it was informative, but I just don’t like having to count every time I turn around. I’m lazy, I guess.
I wasn’t the only one, but some of them had aps they could go to on their phones, and they could punch it in, I don’t have that access. I don’t have a smartphone, I don’t have a computer, and I am not going to run to the library every time I figure out what I want to eat. My book was helpful, but when you make your own stuff, and I can my own foods, its different than going to the store and buying a box of something. It’s all right there on the label and my stuff isn’t like the stuff at the store.
Interviewer: That is really a good point. Would you say that the information was important for you to know to lose weight and you know that these are the things that you have to