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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 1734218" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>T1 isn’t easy, especially to start with, and I agree that it’s unrealistic to pretend that it doesn’t affect the way we live. The more you learn to live with it, though, the less it’s likely to have such a major impact on your life and your self-perception. I’m not going to pretend that there won’t be times when you want to rant and to curse it but these can be lessened by a proactive approach to seeking out what works for you as an individual. </p><p></p><p>We each need to find out what ways we can run T1 so that we can get the best we can from the life we’ve got. This may mean asking to be referred to a good team at a teaching hospital, it may mean being brave enough to experiment with different foods, it may mean discovering what bs you need to have, or what carbs you need to eat, at the start of a run so you can complete it without going low. I know you’ll say I’m lying but I’ve ‘zoned out’ swimming, scuba diving, riding, and loved it!</p><p></p><p>Have patience. See getting to a better place than you’re in now as a step by step process and remember to congratulate yourself each time you have some success, however small. Things are bound to go wrong occasionally but don’t beat yourself up about it. </p><p></p><p>I’m lucky enough to be able to look back at a life in work, and at the part-time work I do now, and realise that it wasn’t career progression, or pay, that really meant the most but the good relationships with other people and the cheer that came from shared successes. Is there anybody you can talk with face to face, workmate or friend, who’ll be a sounding board for ways you can get the better of T1?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 1734218, member: 68789"] T1 isn’t easy, especially to start with, and I agree that it’s unrealistic to pretend that it doesn’t affect the way we live. The more you learn to live with it, though, the less it’s likely to have such a major impact on your life and your self-perception. I’m not going to pretend that there won’t be times when you want to rant and to curse it but these can be lessened by a proactive approach to seeking out what works for you as an individual. We each need to find out what ways we can run T1 so that we can get the best we can from the life we’ve got. This may mean asking to be referred to a good team at a teaching hospital, it may mean being brave enough to experiment with different foods, it may mean discovering what bs you need to have, or what carbs you need to eat, at the start of a run so you can complete it without going low. I know you’ll say I’m lying but I’ve ‘zoned out’ swimming, scuba diving, riding, and loved it! Have patience. See getting to a better place than you’re in now as a step by step process and remember to congratulate yourself each time you have some success, however small. Things are bound to go wrong occasionally but don’t beat yourself up about it. I’m lucky enough to be able to look back at a life in work, and at the part-time work I do now, and realise that it wasn’t career progression, or pay, that really meant the most but the good relationships with other people and the cheer that came from shared successes. Is there anybody you can talk with face to face, workmate or friend, who’ll be a sounding board for ways you can get the better of T1? [/QUOTE]
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