Winter is full of ups, many festivals both religious and non-religious are during these months and we overindulge. We get invited to parties and our lives are often in flux. This affects us all differently and sets up challenges that we need to adjust to, which adds to the anxieties and concerns when you have a medical condition like diabetes, hear what some of these worries are for our health-shared community.
Whatever your worries, there is someone who has been there before and hearing their story can give you some peace of mind. Overindulgence is part of the human frailty and something we all have battles with, because it brings with it feelings of guilt, annoyance, and sometimes depression. Alcohol is sometimes one of those excesses at this time of year. It is important to understand how much it effects your diabetes and how to manage and treat yourself. The health-shared diabetes community shares with you their stories and you can join the conversation.
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Winter can bring with it more trials and tribulations when it comes to diabetes and many of our community often stop to think about these things as winter approaches. Having concerns is not a bad thing at all as it means you can start to find ways to improve that situation. And here our Healthshare community share what their top most worries are. I don't want to fall ill, whether it's flu or with COVID or any other viruses that is going around because I know that will place such a downfall on my diabetes and then it would be a mission for me to get myself back up again. So I am up to date with everything, so I make sure that I'm up to date with flu jabs and COVID and everything else. I got a gastric flu a couple of, about a month ago And it just threw the whole thing into, you know, I mean, my glucose levels were right off the charts and there were so many other things that you had to manage and I couldn't eat, but I was still taking insulin. All I did was drink water for a week. It was like, it was just awful. So you have to kind of, until you step down, so back to where your normality should be. That's one of the bigger challenges, illness. For me, I think it's the risk of sliding into bad habits. Like I mentioned before, in the winter, it's harder to get up and do the same amount of exercise. It's easy to go for, you know, drinks and dinner with friends and family more often than you normally would and to fall into habits of eating too much and losing a bit of control over your diabetes. And that is a challenge, not just in the short term, but once the new year comes around and weather starts to perk up, it can be difficult if you've slid into bad habits to come out of them again. So I think a big challenge is keeping on top of your diabetes and having discipline in the same way you do the rest of the year to allow you to maintain a lifestyle that you've spent a lot of time building to be as healthy as you can be. Weather, I would say. Weather is something that concerns me because if it's bad weather and I feel that I'm not going to be able to do my physical activity, my walks, then that becomes a concern and I try and counteract that with having a little less to eat that day and take more care with my blood glucose levels, but once I'm out and about then that all changes. visiting the daughter down the road and trying to avoid everything she was giving me in the way of sweet things. Puddings, and you're learning how to avoid it, avoid these things. Diabetes is one of those medical conditions that can affect so many of the body's organs, but there are other lifestyle changes that can help reduce the risk that you have just heard about. This fortnight, Healthshare in the diabetes community is going to concentrate on smoking cessation. We appreciate that stopping smoking is no easy task, but understanding what the benefits will be and talking to others who have faced this challenge in our community is a support structure that increases the likelihood of your success.
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