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Mini-Vicki said:
Mum lives over in Great Baddow 🙂 I grew up in Springfield - I love Chelmsford, I still go back frequently 🙂
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That's right near me small world isn't it
 
Mini-Vicki said:
Martin - I spent half my child good in Bishops Stortford with my grandma 🙂
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That's funny, I think the same way about Harrogate where my grandparents lived...... Would love to take my wife to see Harrogate, I'm sure she would love it..... Perhaps next time we are in Europe
 
And I'm one of the other Chelmsfordites 😉
 
Ahhhh I feel like we're all having a little Chelmsford get together 🙂
 
Hi Lesley, I was born in Chelmsford and now live in Clacton on sea, take things a step at a time, they do slot into place although diabetes is an unpredictable beast!! Take care, jo x
 
Hi Lesley, welcome to the forum 🙂 Another couple of things you might like to add to your reading list - Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker, highly recommended by many of our members, and also The GL Diet for Dummies should help you find out the best kinds of food to buy (in addition to the advice about watching the carbs). It's a very good introduction to the 'Glycaemic Load' approach to selecting and combining foods so that they have a slow, steady impact on blood glucose levels.

Also, Diabetes UK have an excellent free book '100 things I wish I'd known about living with diabetes'

I'm sure you'll have lots of questions in the weeks and months to come, but it sounds like you've made a great start by joining up here and the steps you've already taken 🙂 Diabetes is a serious condition, but the good news is that it can be controlled well so it doesn't have to impact your life negatively. And don't think that you're going to end up on some sort of restricted, boring diet - a diet that is good and healthy for people with diabetes is healthy for anyone! 🙂 If you can get a meter and work out what things you tolerate well in your diet, you will be able to ensure that you can continue to enjoy things that don't have a big impact on your levels - have a read of Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S to understand how this works 🙂
 
Hi Lesley and welcome 🙂
You've been given loads of great advice already. Good luck with your journey.
 
Hi lesley

Welcome aboard, it's all really overwhelming at first but I promise it gets easier, it can take a while for it all to sink in and the focus on food is odd when you're used to just picking something up and eating it, but it becomes second nature and not nearly as annoying 🙂

Best of luck with the appointment, hope it's useful.
 
Hi Lesley. Please feel free to fire away your questions.🙂
 
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