Second Nature

Having been diagnosed with Diabetes type ii, I am actively trying to hopefully reverse it.

I start a course on Monday called Second Nature which is run by the NHS. I’ve brought myself a smart watch that came today, so I can watch my steps, heart and ha ha sleep (what is that????)

Friday I attended a diabetes meeting that was done by our doctors. I found it very interesting and learnt a fair bit about the disease and also how our cholesterol is also important.

So yesterday I started 5 days of fasting for 18 hours to give my pancreas a rest. How am I finding it? Not too bad, apart from the evenings. I don’t normally eat in the morning anyway, so starting eating at 12 noon is not a problem, but stopping at 6 is hard. However I done yesterday and am currently cooking some new potatoes and eggs for my salad nicoise and also doing stewed fruit so I can have it with Greek yoghurt. Today I can do these because I am having a good day. My worry is when my body doesn’t have a good day and struggles to even move, then that is when I hit the real challenges.

Anyway I am looking forward to kicking this one disease into touch hopefully. Apparently it is very hard but not impossible to reverse diabetes and you have to keep on top, especially when you’ve been on steroids (prednisone) for years and in particular a very high dosage for a while when I had Giant Cell Ateritis *GCA However I believe I can reverse it and keep it controlled.

Have a wonderful day xxx