Finding the chase and cutting to it

My son believes I work too hard. I love my day job, so it doesn’t feel like work to me but my fitness app is of the same opinion “try to optimise rest today”. Economically, I’m very much of the belief that hard work pays dividends, gets rewarded, etc. But only 10% of effort is […]

Weight-watchers has been a trope in many middle aged romcom books over its 62 year history – but it has recently been facing stiff competition from app led regimes such as Noom, and finally from a simple medication that achieves weight loss by curbing appetite. There is a hitch though… You’re kidding me, I would […]

Can I be absolutely frank with you: having type 1 diabetes is frightening. Anyone with type 1 feels this from time to time, from the first hypo you have, to the first hyper that won’t respond to insulin, to the first screening you have for retinal defects (diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy). This is, like the […]

I’m type 1 diabetic: that means my natural state is hyperglycemia or having blood sugar above 7mmol/l when fasting above 11mmol/l two hours after eating. For days when nothing else is happening, I generally manage to keep to those limits, which gives me a long term measure of glycated hemoglobin of between 5.2% and 6.5%. […]

You can control what you eat and exercise levels is the statement often touted on facebook and linkedIn. Unless you have an immune condition that means you are manually providing the means to control your sugar and potassium levels – things are a bit more complicated when you do that. I have resisted a high […]

All I want to be talking about here is how we’re doing with our heat pump. But at the end of the third week of February, we still have 25 days until the end of winter:- 20th March 2025 is our first day of spring in the UK. So, I cannot do that. What I […]

A granny stoppers is a device used on a public path that is intended to discourage “grannies” or the less physically able to progress with a route. It is widely used in the UK as a means of excluding people from what other people have deemed “unsuitable paths for them”. They can be narrow stiles, […]

I make around 180 decisions a day to keep healthy. Even using my “hybrid-loop”, I cannot leave it to just keep things ticking over because they tend to run me high and that causes me physical pain, or over corrects when I dip low mid-afternoon.. Quality of life is a key aspect most people don’t […]

This week has been the first with the fully operational butcher’s block and much cooking has been done. From a tasty carrot and corriander soup, enjoyed on Tuesday evening after work and for lunch on Wednesday, to chocolate cookies. It has fulfilled its promise. Indeed, it’s almost too easy to cook from scratch. Since we […]

Delayed gratification is all well and good, but it hard when you’ve waited 8 weeks for a butcher’s block to turn up and then have to oil it before use to avoid staining. It will be tomorrow morning at the earliest. Thank goodness it’s a 3 day weekend (note to self – do not work […]