I was looking through my old posts and blogs last night and realized that I've not mentioned once a very large part of my life, in fact one of the most important parts of my life, I've not said once that I'm a type 1 Diabetic, rather vital part of my life really isn't it, and I've not even mentioned it in passing! 
I feel bad for not having told anyone about it on here, but I didn't hide it on purpose, in fact I had thought I'd said about it, but apparently not! So, I'm going to start again!
Hello there, i'm Sarah, 25, from Essex, I'm married with a 2 (3 at the end of the month) year old daughter, I enjoy cooking, gardening, reading and playing games on the computer, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS, and I am an insulin dependent type one diabetic since birth, in fact at the time of my diagnoses (10 months old in 1989) it's believed I was the youngest person diagnosed with it in the whole of East Anglia!
My control isn't great but thanks to the 5:2 way of life it's very slowly heading in the right direction. Some of you may throw your arms in the air and say "but surely the 5:2 is bad for diabetics?!" It is if done without the knowledge of the relevant doctors who help keep you on track, but my doctors, consultants and nurses all know and are helping me make sure to not go hypo on fast days and have repercussions on non fast days.
The 5:2 has helped in more ways than just loosing weight, it's helping me to make safer food choices on non fast days, so now, instead of reaching for biscuits for snacks, I reach for an apple or banana, if I do go hypo, I go for the milk or orange juice instead of Lucozade or chocolate! I know that I should do this already, but before I started the WOL I was a "I don't really care, if it helps it helps" kind of diabetic, which was effecting my health badly, but doing this has helped me see what I was doing and firmly stop it, I do still have bad times, my will power isn't fantastic so I do have the odd Milkyway bar or swig of lucozade, but now instead of enjoying it and wanting more, I can happily let Sofia steal my chocolate and not get another, or have a small glass of lucozade instead of half a bottle.
I do apologies for not having told anyone about being Diabetic, I am a wally and a prune with a bad memory!
I feel bad for not having told anyone about it on here, but I didn't hide it on purpose, in fact I had thought I'd said about it, but apparently not! So, I'm going to start again!
Hello there, i'm Sarah, 25, from Essex, I'm married with a 2 (3 at the end of the month) year old daughter, I enjoy cooking, gardening, reading and playing games on the computer, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS, and I am an insulin dependent type one diabetic since birth, in fact at the time of my diagnoses (10 months old in 1989) it's believed I was the youngest person diagnosed with it in the whole of East Anglia!
My control isn't great but thanks to the 5:2 way of life it's very slowly heading in the right direction. Some of you may throw your arms in the air and say "but surely the 5:2 is bad for diabetics?!" It is if done without the knowledge of the relevant doctors who help keep you on track, but my doctors, consultants and nurses all know and are helping me make sure to not go hypo on fast days and have repercussions on non fast days.
The 5:2 has helped in more ways than just loosing weight, it's helping me to make safer food choices on non fast days, so now, instead of reaching for biscuits for snacks, I reach for an apple or banana, if I do go hypo, I go for the milk or orange juice instead of Lucozade or chocolate! I know that I should do this already, but before I started the WOL I was a "I don't really care, if it helps it helps" kind of diabetic, which was effecting my health badly, but doing this has helped me see what I was doing and firmly stop it, I do still have bad times, my will power isn't fantastic so I do have the odd Milkyway bar or swig of lucozade, but now instead of enjoying it and wanting more, I can happily let Sofia steal my chocolate and not get another, or have a small glass of lucozade instead of half a bottle.
I do apologies for not having told anyone about being Diabetic, I am a wally and a prune with a bad memory!
