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⭐ out of 5
Someone I care for was diagnosed with pre-diabetes by his doctor yesterday and I've been trying to support him, initially by getting rid of all his sweets and chocolate and anything that obviously had sugar in it which he didn't like one bit lol I also adjusted our online grocery order to take out as much sugary stuff as possible. This morning I went online to try and find some cookbooks with meals that are suitable for pre-diabetics so I got this book on my Kindle Unlimited subscription. I've read 17% so far and it's been incredible! If it carries on like this, I'll be buying a copy for the patient too!
The patient says that he considers me to be an intermediate to advanced beginner when it comes to making meals, so hopefully the recipes in this book will be suitable for me to make for him without being so advanced that it scares the small amount of confidence out of me.
Keep reading this review and I'll update it the more I read.
Just finished reading chapter 2 and it said about jogging for 32 minutes... think I'll encourage the patient to walk for a few minutes and gradually build up from there, so that it's not so daunting for him lol He hasn't jogged since I've been with him (25 years) but if I can find a way to motivate him to walk around the house for 10 minutes a day, that's more than he's doing atm, so surely that's better than nothing, right?
Oooh! We're at the recipes now! There's a lot of fresh veggies... we haven't got a lot of spare room in the kitchen, so I'm wondering if we can use frozen instead?
I can join the patient in the first days exercise 'cos it's what I do around the house to lose weight, so I'll see if I can use that exercise as a joint thing to motivate and encourage the patient... I doubt he'll want to do it outside, but I haven't been doing it outside either, so we can do it around the downstairs of our house and because we'll be doing it together, there's no time limit or embarrassment but will get the patient used to doing it very slowly.
Day 2's exercises are useless 'cos we haven't got any of the equipment, so it'll be another walking day for us, I reckon.
Day 3's recipe is useless 'cos the patient doesn't like most of the ingredients so it looks like day 3's meal will consist of tuna, cannellini beans, basil, garlic, tomato's and half an onion which he will already be frustrated with so I'll have to work even harder to motivate him to eat instead of ordering a take-away.
Oh boy. The patient won't be able to get onto the floor to do the first step of the exercises on day 3 (I had to call an ambulance to get him off the kitchen floor when he fell asleep standing up - yep, totally serious) so the book has dropped to 4 stars after 31%
He won't be able to do the second step either 'cos it involves getting onto the floor again, so in only two steps this book has already lost two stars!
Step 3 involves having a knee on the ground, so I can see him wobbling off his feet and onto the floor with this step too, so another star is being removed and there's only one star left to remove before I stop reading and officially give up on this book that started off so incredibly well.
There's a very slim chance that he might be able to do step 4, but that's only a quarter of the steps that the patient can semi-safely do for the entire day... not good at all.
It's given 8 Yoga poses to do but no explanation of how to do any of them!!!
The Homemade Granola recipe has just about saved the last star from wobbling off, but if it hadn't been on the very next page, the star would have fallen off with a big clunk. We're still at 2 stars, but only just unfortunately.
The granola recipe seems easy enough, but I'll need to convert cups and farenheight into UK measurements first lol
The trail mix recipe looks really quick and easy, so that's two recipes I've got from this book, just wish it had been more!
Oh boy, at 51% the author wants the patient to "jog or even sprint" which there is no way he can do, considering right now he struggles to walk the 5 steps from the bathroom to the kitchen, so the final star is coming off unfortunately. The book started off so well but unfortunately quickly went downhill into potentially dangerous territory at half way through. I'll keep scrolling through to see if there are any other quick and easy recipes, but I won't be reading any more of the content unfortunately.
Out of 172 pages, I only found 4 suitable recipes and 1 type of exercise (the walking) so it's a total waste of money if you buy the paperback or hardback as opposed to the Kindle Unlimited version.
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