Weight control with T1.

7 December 2010
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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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By Nic on 7 December 2010 at 10.25 am
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Diabetes on a dartboard.

3 December 2010
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Some days it feels like diabetes is Public Enemy Number 1. It’s days like these I would be tempted to sketch out what my diabetes would look like if it were a person, stick it on a dartboard and take aim at it with a nice sharp dart (or perhaps a syringe, just to make a point).

I had a night like this last week. Had one of those hypos which you know is going to be bad news. I took a reasonably large amount of insulin to go with my dinner, and by only 40 minutes in I was already at a 3.4. Ran to the kitchen and started loading up on glucose. In the meantime I felt the…

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By Nic on 3 December 2010 at 10.14 am
Posted in Hypos & Hypers, Slice of Life
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Thursday poll: how do you treat your diabetes?

2 December 2010
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By Nic on 2 December 2010 at 9.24 am
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Guest blog: a citizen of the world.

30 November 2010
12 Comments

Some of you will have read some of Gathoni’s story from a comment she made on a previous post. Her story was just so incredible I contacted her and asked if she’d be keen to do a guest post. She has written this amazing account, below. Gathoni – so much of what you say sounds so familiar. I love the way you write and I can feel the emotions you were feeling coming through in your prose. You are an amazing woman and your story is going to really resonate with this diabetes community. If you ever fancy a trip to NZ please get in touch – I’ll be there to pick you up at the airport!

My name is…

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By Nic on 30 November 2010 at 9.40 am
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Eating low GI.

29 November 2010
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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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By Nic on 29 November 2010 at 9.14 am
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