I got this email from a reader last week. Wow – how incredible is her HbA1c?! Would love your feedback on her query below.

I am a T1 who has struggled a lot with keeping my weight in check. While my HbA1c’s are always in the range of 5.7 – 6.0, my weight is always the casualty. I think that partly it has to do with that awkward relationship to food we diabetics have and insulin itself increases appetite. I hate to have to eat if I don’t feel like it and at other times protest against me being diabetic by overeating and then correcting. Is anybody else having problems with that?

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I did a Google search of “Low GI” to find a picture to go with this post, and found the one on the right. I thought the question was a good one…. “What’s your diet plan?”…. I think my current answer would be a very long-winded and contradictory one! At the moment I seem to be very good at planning out my son’s meals in great detail but when it comes to myself I suddenly realise I’m hungry and hurriedly try to scramble something together from what I can hunt down in the fridge/the work cafeteria! If it wasn’t for my culinarily-talented (yes I think I just made up a word) husband (and my very kind Mother who often brings…

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