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Tis the season… to be wobbly.

Nic — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:20:17 +0000

I’ve been in denial for a while, even with getting on the scales at the hospital a few weeks ago. With the sole focus lately having been my blood sugars, you’d think I’d be fit, healthy, spritely, and above all, slim.

Not so. Not that I’m a complete porker (depending on your perspective of course, I imagine if you live in an African country you would probably think I was pretty gynormous), but I have to say I’m not in the best shape I’ve been in my life lately.

Thus, I dusted off my old Weight Watchers books on the weekend and have added that to the measuring, weighing and scrutising of my food. Hey – what’s one more thing…

Keeping it natural.

Nic — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:51:26 +0000

I’ve got a google mail account and one of the interesting things about it is the ads which appear in the frame around your mailbox. (see the example on the right hand side of this post). I always find this a bit ‘big brother-ish’ because these links relate to keywords from the emails in your inbox. For example, this is what I got from an email from a friend of mine who’s had gestational diabetes (I’m going to post her piece shortly). When I got married and had emails from different suppliers and friends with the word ‘wedding’ in them, I got alllll sorts of ads on the right hand side.

So anyway, I have clicked on a few of…

Ice creaaaaam!

Nic — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:25:49 +0000

Ever noticed how one of the first things people say to you when you say you’re diabetic is something like “oh so does that mean you can’t eat sweets and ice cream?”. I used to answer with a ‘yes, that’s right’ just to keep things simple, and also because that’s the sort of thing we were told back in the day when I was diagnosed.

I think most of us who’ve been diagnosed for 10+ years still probably avoid sweet/sugary foods out of pure habit or the guilty feeling we get while eating them, while some of our contemporaries have been schooled from the start that as long as they bolus for the carbs in the food they’re eating, they…