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Jee99

I was a cross country runner up to county champion standards in the 70's. When I stopped running I was not given any advice about diet control or how to adapt to a sedentary life style.
I did try to control my eating patterns without much luck and bloomed from a lovely 12 stone up to 28 stone 12lbs when I was diagnosed with the Big D (as I call diabetes) at the tender young age of 50.
I have a love/hate relationship with food and exercise now, almost as much as I did when I was running (cross country races ranged from 5 to 20 miles in length) so I am now 17stone 2lbs and still losing weight.
I am ashamed to be the first person in my generation of cousins and brother to be diagnosed as diabetic, in fact as far as I have found the first in three generations to have the condition but I will cure myself or at least control it.
Birthday
Sep 12, 1959 (Age: 65)
Location
Aylsham, Norfolk, England
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Medication
glyclazide
Exercise
swimming, walking, yoga, gym
Likes
food(obvious I know), reading, writing, crochet, knitting, crosswords, films, music, walking, swimming, cross-stitch, designing patterns for the above.
Dislikes
food(not so obvious) butter beans, liver, custard puddings, running machines, badly written books, badly controlled dogs, doctors

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