Guest blog: They spoke to me

23 December 2009
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Those who know me well tend to know that I’m not one of these people that have exceptionally high levels of self-control in situations where, for example, there is food in the fridge that I am looking forward to or if there are two large buckets of Cookie Time cookies that are in the house at Christmas (have a read of my comment on this topic from last week if you missed it).

Christmas is particularly difficult in this respect because the temptations are seemingly ever present at this time of the year. Normally, I just don’t have the stuff in the house and therefore, I aren’t even tempted in the first instance but at the moment…

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By Aaron on 23 December 2009 at 4.12 pm
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BeingDiabetic gets another facelift!

21 December 2009
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Dear readers

You’ve been ever so good to me over the last year and a half while I gently make improvements to the blog. You may be happy to know that since September I have been working behind the scenes on another round of improvements, to make beingdiabetic.co.nz even more awesome to visit and interesting to navigate around, and on Wednesday morning the new look site is going live! Just in time for Christmas. Check out the sneak preview to the right.

Stuff to look forward to on the new blog:

* it looks even nicer
* less bright yellow, so you won’t stand out when you’re reading it at work (Sophie)
* much more whizz-bang categorising. Now…

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By Nic on 21 December 2009 at 5.47 pm
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Hollywood does it again.

21 December 2009
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I was just visiting the ever good DiabetesMine site and noticed a post about a new show which has recently gone to air in the States. In this show there are three main characters, one of whom has diabetes. Sigh.

I’ll leave you to read the post for yourselves, but here’s a short excerpt:

Owen is a father of two who works for his father at a car dealership. He’s a bit down on his luck and not happy working with Dad, who isn’t the nicest guy. On top of that, Owen has diabetes, which he exacerbates by drinking, eating too much, and not exercising enough.

But what kind of portrayal is this show giving diabetes?…

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By Nic on 21 December 2009 at 10.28 am
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Pregnancy with Type 1 diabetes – the summary.

20 December 2009
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Hi all

Just for those of you who want to find all the posts I did on pregnancy with type 1 diabetes in one place, here you go:

1. Confessions of a pregnant diabetic

2. Things I’ve learnt about having T1 and being pregnant

3. Double trouble – being both pregnant and a T1

4. 27 week update

5. Increasing insulin resistance

6. 28 weeks and baby on the large side

7. 34 weeks

8.…

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By Nic on 20 December 2009 at 12.21 pm
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Mmmmm. Scorched almonds.

18 December 2009
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I know I really shouldn’t (I would like to get rid of this baby weight sooner rather than later), but last night we had the Christmas tree lights on, my husband put on a Christmas record, and I was busy wrapping pressies – a complete Christmas scene apart from mulled wine, really. I’ve had a pack of scorched almonds in the cupboard for a few weeks, thinking they might make a good addition to someone’s present – and it seemed only right to open them up and have a couple last night.

Problem is, now the packet is open, and I’ve just had about eight of them for breakfast – naughty! Have just had to correct a 12.6. Oh well,…

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By Nic on 18 December 2009 at 9.49 am
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