I’m not a health professional or nutritionist—just someone who faced a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis with the same panic and uncertainty many experience. After the initial shock, I dove into research and made important lifestyle changes.
Today, my HbA1c level is 34, which on paper suggests I’ve reversed my Type 2 Diabetes. True remission, though, will come once I no longer need Metformin to regulate my blood sugar.
Within the blog posts section I have a few topics that hopefully are interesting and helpful to people; here are a few pique your interest;
- Diabetic Friendly Restaurants
- What are Hypos and Hypers?
- Diabetic / keto Friendly Products
- How do you you actually treat Type 2 Diabetes?
The above timeline covers my initial diagnosis in May 2021 with a HbA1c of 87mmol which I contribute to an unhealthy obsession with Haribo Fangtastics. Through my weight loss journey to Jan 2024 culminating my last HbA1c December 2024 of 34 mmol.
Plans for the Blog
Its is very much early days for the blog but I would like to expand out the content in various ways outlined below. I do have a full time job that takes up a fair amount of time and so I don’t have a dedicated timeline for this.
I felt the need to lay down my thoughts if only to help guide my manic ideas into some form of delivery roadmap of content.
- Personal Stories & Interviews; Share real life experiences beyond my own covering not just Diabetes Type 2 but Type 1 and Gestational diabetes.
- Exercise Tips
- Easy to consume Medical Information about Diabetes including tips that work from real people.
- Lifestyle Management
- More Product Reviews
- Mental Health Impact
- Diabetes with other Co-Morbidities, I myself have high blood pressure and due to snowboarding injury am on blood thinners.
- Technology and Diabetes, as a resident geek how could I not include cool tech such as Blue Tooth enabled Glucose Monitoring that syncs to your phone
- Advocacy and Awareness, restaurants cater for so many people but not Diabetics. There has to be more than ordering sweet potato fries instead of regular and skipping the bun.