Swesent
Member
- Messages
- 6
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
Looking around for a suiting platform to maybe do something, I ended up here, in this lovely forum - and possibly the only great place around for diabetics to share their lives, knowledge and everything connected to it.
My name is Michael, 43 years old from Sweden, born and raised. My alias "Swesent" a simple portmanteau of "Swedish" and "sentence" (since I really love to write).
I was diagnosed with Diabetes T1 at the age of six. I'm rather thankful for being so young when I got it because I can't remember any life before it. I'm sure it would have hit me much harder had I gotten it during my teens. I've gone through many periods with treating with shots and with pumps - and I'm currently on a T:Slim X2 with G7 sensors (and very happy with its performance to be honest).
During my years I have read up on quite a bit of nutrition and a whole lot on all types of fasting! I've tried 'em all and I was quite shocked in the beginning how something so healthy, seemed to be a death sentence when talking to my doctors and diabetes team about it. But I rarely feel as great, or experience as stable blood glucose as I do when I'm fasting.
My biggest grievance at the moment is my weight - something that I've been working on for the past +20 years - with lots of different approaches. I manage for a while, but then there's always something that makes me go off track and eat unhealthy again. Reasons, excuses, situations... my brain can be very resourceful at times when searching for a way off the healthy highway and straight into the fields of sugar again.
Now I've recently started on yet another attempt, using long term fasting as the main tool. So far so good. And I hope that there's a place in this forum to keep kind of like a progress journal or similar - where I can just share whatever I feel like - all my experiences, thoughts, feelings in regards to my diabetes as I try and conquer my weight one more time. Maybe a way for me to hold myself accountable or something. But I need to check with a moderator first, since I don't wish to litter the forum with stuff unwanted.
I could keep going for pages on end... I work as a store clerk at a "Granngården"-store. No sports, long walks, computers, music (listening) and horror movies. Anyway, I welcome questions and... yeah... thanks for taking time out of your day to read. Much appreciated!
A warm hug from a cold Sweden!
My name is Michael, 43 years old from Sweden, born and raised. My alias "Swesent" a simple portmanteau of "Swedish" and "sentence" (since I really love to write).
I was diagnosed with Diabetes T1 at the age of six. I'm rather thankful for being so young when I got it because I can't remember any life before it. I'm sure it would have hit me much harder had I gotten it during my teens. I've gone through many periods with treating with shots and with pumps - and I'm currently on a T:Slim X2 with G7 sensors (and very happy with its performance to be honest).
During my years I have read up on quite a bit of nutrition and a whole lot on all types of fasting! I've tried 'em all and I was quite shocked in the beginning how something so healthy, seemed to be a death sentence when talking to my doctors and diabetes team about it. But I rarely feel as great, or experience as stable blood glucose as I do when I'm fasting.
My biggest grievance at the moment is my weight - something that I've been working on for the past +20 years - with lots of different approaches. I manage for a while, but then there's always something that makes me go off track and eat unhealthy again. Reasons, excuses, situations... my brain can be very resourceful at times when searching for a way off the healthy highway and straight into the fields of sugar again.
Now I've recently started on yet another attempt, using long term fasting as the main tool. So far so good. And I hope that there's a place in this forum to keep kind of like a progress journal or similar - where I can just share whatever I feel like - all my experiences, thoughts, feelings in regards to my diabetes as I try and conquer my weight one more time. Maybe a way for me to hold myself accountable or something. But I need to check with a moderator first, since I don't wish to litter the forum with stuff unwanted.
I could keep going for pages on end... I work as a store clerk at a "Granngården"-store. No sports, long walks, computers, music (listening) and horror movies. Anyway, I welcome questions and... yeah... thanks for taking time out of your day to read. Much appreciated!
A warm hug from a cold Sweden!