Diabetes....

It's about eating simple food, regularly. It's about watering down the orange juice 50/50....having a handful of strawberries rather than a bowlful.

It's about Slimmers World food, which is excellent for Type II diabetes, I know, I eat it, and my blood sugar is normal, my cholesterol is so low...and I'm diabetic.

It's about using a bike, instead of the car, or walking whenever you can. It's about exercise....

It's about not letting blood tests rule your life.

It's about taking a brisk walk, if your blood sugar is high, to lower it again.

It's also about realising that a cake or a chocolate bar now and then is NOT going to kill you.

It's about some cool, iced water with lemon, instead of beer or wine.

It's about common sense taking over from sugar.

And it's about realising that diabetes is not so much an illness, but more your body's way of telling you to take care of it, please...

It's about a stress free life, of learning to let go of feeling you have to live you life a certain way, because stress is not good for diabetes...so do it! Let go!

It's about being taken care of, by nurses who look after you so kindly, opthalmic specialists who care about your eyes, doctors who care about your health...

It's about loving your feet, taking special care of them, buffing them, moisturising them, painting those nails (yes, you too guys, should the mood take you!) getting 'The Sexiest Feet In The Neighbourhood' Award!

It's about not feeling bitter, or that your life is 'over', but realising that a far healthier life is just beginning.

It's about realising that actually, diabetes could be one of the best things to happen to you, not the worst..

And, it's about understanding that YOU can control your diabetes, and not let IT control you.

It's about learning to relax, to feel at home with being diabetic.

Diabetes, it's about YOU, in all the most positive ways imaginable.