Hello,
I'm a newbie T2 who's only been using this very helpful site for a few days and the advice etc. has been both very welcome and much appreciated.
I've read many posts, popped in the café for a coffee, had a look at the desert island and learnt quite a bit about pumping, balancing levels, exercise and food etc. and then some more about surgery, breastfeeding, children and Burgan bread. Presumably from Burgan's?
I even bought two books, one about T2 and the other about essential recipes by something called a 'Worrall Thompson'! Not quite sure what that is or if I want to. Can it be switched off? should I dip it in 80% chocolate and eat it? or is it better taken with a pinch of chilli and wrapped in kale?
I think the sites great, yes I'm getting there so here it is, but..................it seems to focus on the down side of diabetes. (runs for cover.....................!!)
What you cant eat, what you cant drink, when to take a reading etc. and then the 'medical' or 'management' side of diabetes. Obviously important and needed but is that all that this site is about?
Some of you have been diagnosed for years and have not only a wealth of experience of diabetes but of how to live with it, exist with it, function with it. Some though, like me are new.
So, just a thought, but how about a positive thread, stuff that made you smile, stuff that made you cry, what you do for a high, what you did for a night in, a night out, a holiday, a joke a funny story, whatever floats your boat really
.
Life after all is for living and its not so much what we cant do but what we can do and how we do it....................so
Top-5 good things for me are:-
1. My family
2. My friends
3. The arts - music, dance, theatre etc
4. Riding bikes and touring
5. Travel - countries, culture, food
another top-5 would be
I Sex
ii Alcohol
iii Food
iv Sex
v Alcohol
vi Food
yep that's 6 but what a 6!
and another would be:-
a John Martyn
b Tom Waites
c Nick cave
d David Byrne
e David Bowie
etc, etc.
I was diagnosed as borderline T2 around 2-years ago, confirmed in Jan 2017 and put on tablets and given a meter and told to self harm my finger up to 6 times a day.. Some of you already know this.
At that time, kale, to me, was something that cows used to eat when I was a boy growing up in Stony Stratford.
It wasn't considered food for us we ate corned beef, apple crumble, sweed, turnip, spuds and something my mother produced every now and then called a clanger.
Until recently Kale was avoided, I liked greens, cabbage, broccoli, beans etc. but kale was like eating thistles and as I'm not from Scotland it wasn't for me........................................... (ducks in an English kind of way and trembles slightly)
Then the diagnosis came and the Doc said eat Kale Mike, it'll do you good.
So we did. We went to Tesco and bought a sack full for about 50p threw it in the car and shoved it in the hall next to the dog food.
I looked at it menacingly for a couple of days then we went for it.
heated a huge pan of water and threw some in and boiled to within an inch of its life and..............
I liked it! really liked it..............so
1st positive about becoming T2 is that it awakens taste buds that have been dormant for years and you never knew.
Now we put it in soups, stews, curries & pasta dishes with little need of a Worrall Thompson guide.
Last night it was in a Thai Prawn Curry - yum, yum!
I'm now on the lookout for, amongst others, kale cider, kale vodka, kale ice cream, kale cheese and of course kale custard to put on my kale and blueberry crumble.
2nd positive thing about my T2 is that we get to eat at 7pm every night. On the dot. 6pm on Sundays
None of this, it will be ready at 7.30 ish or soon ish.
I take my reading at 6pm, pop the tabs, have a small ish GnT with low cal tonic then at 7pm tea time brilliant!
and so far there is a 3rd positive emerging................
Because I'm now T2 I get the TV remote. brilliant. 3-possitive reasons for being T2 and all in the 1st month.
So, people of DUK, what makes you smile, how do you lift the blues?
M
PS: Hope I haven't peed anyone off, if I have, sorry, didn't meant to, now trot on and stay glum!
I'm a newbie T2 who's only been using this very helpful site for a few days and the advice etc. has been both very welcome and much appreciated.
I've read many posts, popped in the café for a coffee, had a look at the desert island and learnt quite a bit about pumping, balancing levels, exercise and food etc. and then some more about surgery, breastfeeding, children and Burgan bread. Presumably from Burgan's?
I even bought two books, one about T2 and the other about essential recipes by something called a 'Worrall Thompson'! Not quite sure what that is or if I want to. Can it be switched off? should I dip it in 80% chocolate and eat it? or is it better taken with a pinch of chilli and wrapped in kale?
I think the sites great, yes I'm getting there so here it is, but..................it seems to focus on the down side of diabetes. (runs for cover.....................!!)
What you cant eat, what you cant drink, when to take a reading etc. and then the 'medical' or 'management' side of diabetes. Obviously important and needed but is that all that this site is about?
Some of you have been diagnosed for years and have not only a wealth of experience of diabetes but of how to live with it, exist with it, function with it. Some though, like me are new.
So, just a thought, but how about a positive thread, stuff that made you smile, stuff that made you cry, what you do for a high, what you did for a night in, a night out, a holiday, a joke a funny story, whatever floats your boat really
.
Life after all is for living and its not so much what we cant do but what we can do and how we do it....................so
Top-5 good things for me are:-
1. My family
2. My friends
3. The arts - music, dance, theatre etc
4. Riding bikes and touring
5. Travel - countries, culture, food
another top-5 would be
I Sex
ii Alcohol
iii Food
iv Sex
v Alcohol
vi Food
yep that's 6 but what a 6!
and another would be:-
a John Martyn
b Tom Waites
c Nick cave
d David Byrne
e David Bowie
etc, etc.
I was diagnosed as borderline T2 around 2-years ago, confirmed in Jan 2017 and put on tablets and given a meter and told to self harm my finger up to 6 times a day.. Some of you already know this.
At that time, kale, to me, was something that cows used to eat when I was a boy growing up in Stony Stratford.
It wasn't considered food for us we ate corned beef, apple crumble, sweed, turnip, spuds and something my mother produced every now and then called a clanger.
Until recently Kale was avoided, I liked greens, cabbage, broccoli, beans etc. but kale was like eating thistles and as I'm not from Scotland it wasn't for me........................................... (ducks in an English kind of way and trembles slightly)
Then the diagnosis came and the Doc said eat Kale Mike, it'll do you good.
So we did. We went to Tesco and bought a sack full for about 50p threw it in the car and shoved it in the hall next to the dog food.
I looked at it menacingly for a couple of days then we went for it.
heated a huge pan of water and threw some in and boiled to within an inch of its life and..............
I liked it! really liked it..............so
1st positive about becoming T2 is that it awakens taste buds that have been dormant for years and you never knew.
Now we put it in soups, stews, curries & pasta dishes with little need of a Worrall Thompson guide.
Last night it was in a Thai Prawn Curry - yum, yum!
I'm now on the lookout for, amongst others, kale cider, kale vodka, kale ice cream, kale cheese and of course kale custard to put on my kale and blueberry crumble.
2nd positive thing about my T2 is that we get to eat at 7pm every night. On the dot. 6pm on Sundays
None of this, it will be ready at 7.30 ish or soon ish.
I take my reading at 6pm, pop the tabs, have a small ish GnT with low cal tonic then at 7pm tea time brilliant!
and so far there is a 3rd positive emerging................
Because I'm now T2 I get the TV remote. brilliant. 3-possitive reasons for being T2 and all in the 1st month.
So, people of DUK, what makes you smile, how do you lift the blues?
M
PS: Hope I haven't peed anyone off, if I have, sorry, didn't meant to, now trot on and stay glum!
