Maccy-Dee’s here in my bit of the Backwoods (Lincolnshire, UK), Helen! :-)

I gave up taking sugar in drinks on 2nd June, 1980. It was my first day in a new job, and my new boss asked one of my new staff to bring us a tea whilst he was doing my induction process. He said ‘no sugar’ and, without thinking, I said “Same for me please”. So I went from two spoons to zero in one go, never took sugar again - 42 years this June!

I confess to having the occasional Maccy-Dee’s, it’s my secret guilty sin - very infrequently I allow myself a Chicken Legend, and I dump the top half of the bun and just eat the bottom half and the ‘chicken’ bit. Then I’m eaten alive by feelings of guilt and shame until I do my early morning blood-sugar test and find, almost invariably, that my levels are barely affected, if at all!

I know how to live! ;-)