Hi My Name is Paul, Hello to all on this Forum
I have recently been diagnosed as having Type 2 Diabetes, which I think I may have had for about a year and a half, shortly after I was diagnosed as having high cholesterol just over 2 years ago.
My blood sugar level was about 3x higher than it should have been and during the first week and a half, it has been shall we say interesting to see how quickly my blood sugar now goes too low if I am not careful, now that the medicine is helping to prevent the high levels.
A little about me? Read on if interested Lol.....
What sex am I? I am a male, Paul is not the name I use as an alternative to a female name
I was born and bred in the UK, but I think my nose probably says my ancestors where Roman!
I am not religious in the usual sense, my base beliefs as a guide to life is Christianity, but I believe that God if it exists did not wait until 2016 years ago to show himself and if god does exist, god was around a very very long time ago before little planet earth showed up. I don't think god considers humans to be any more special than all the other animals that came before or after the planet earth appeared, so we should be nice and just get over our superiority
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Three words to describe myself..... Patient, Loving, Annoying.
MS Windows for price, flexibility, USB drag and drop and upgrades to system, Mac so annoying and yes I do own some annoying Mac stuff!!
I cycle sometimes, Have a motorbike, sadly currently off the road. I like motor racing, but Gran Tourismo is about as far as I get in taking part.
I only get angry at dossers who sponge of the state for a long time with no reason!!
Had a dog once called Bungle, because we answered an advert saying dog free to a good home, they opened the door, thrust the dog into our hands and closed the door, she was only a few weeks old and had to be bottle fed, she was a little bundle of fluff, so hence the slight name change to Bungle, we had her for about 15 years, miss that dog so much still 15 years later.
No tattoos etc, but may get one when I am 50, any suggestions based on my 3 word description of myself?
Favourite bands :- Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Rammstein, Dio, Whitesnake, Mamas Boys, Girl School and many more, but I also like old school pop, some modern pop and classical sometimes as well as War of the worlds musical.
You guessed it, I like Rock music most of the time ;-)
Just about on the right side of age 50, I am married to a wonderful Filipino woman called Anilyn, who I met about 12 years ago, We have a baby girl called Tala (Bright Star in Tagalog Language) who is now 15 months, going on 15 years and now knows more about computers than my Mother already!!
Fake Tan, No but maybe I need one so that I do not look like a thermometer turned upside down when I am bald, too much info!!
I have travelled all around the UK top to bottom and to both sides, I have relatives in the Philippines and Switzerland, so they are free of hotel requirements
I have also visited parts of Spain and Pathos as well as France. I have relatives in America, Australia and New Zealand, but have not travelled there yet!!
I love Birmingham City and also Manila in the Philippines, it is so varied and a crazy city and it has travel by JEEPNEY so funny for a 6ft tall guy to travel on
Proud of the England Flag as well as the Union Jack and the Flag of the Philippines.
Been camping in a tent and also caravanning, all are good fun especially if the tent is at a festival.
List your five favourite TV programmes. Sarah Connor Chronicles, Anything Sci Fi even if it is bad and funny
List your five favourite films :- Avatar, Star Wars, Time Machine (old version), Hell raiser and most horror films, love the old classics with Vincent Price etc. Oh and I like comedy.
Are you wealthy? I wish, but I am not poor ;-)
Do you work? If so, as what? I am an Architectural Technician working on fairly big stuff from distribution, factories, schools and offices.
List the subjects you study/have studied. Building Studies, computer programming in Cobol and Basic, Desk top publishing, Engineering studies and the usual school projects, where Physics and Technical drawing where my best subjects. My worst subjects where English and Maths, as the Welsh Physics teacher said "Looks like a spiders crawled all over it"
What do you like most about yourself? Generally a very friendly reliable person.
What do you like least about yourself? Mmmm Talk too much when it is not needed and type too much.
More (OMG Shut up man) :-
I like a beer more than the recommendations, but not 10 pints a night, so this needs more work to reduce, feeling sad....
I like ice cream and cake, Oh Cack...
Before getting Diabetes as I have said I was diagnosed with Cholesterol. I loved peanuts, biscuits, mashed potatoes and cheese etc as well as egg custards, bread pudding and more, but not on the same plate !! (showing my age with the puds)!!!
After diagnosis of high Cholesterol I cut most of the bad saturated fat and increased my good fat and over two years I went from 106kg to my present 89.9kg (16 St 9lb to 14 St 2lb in old money) So about 16 bags of sugar lost!!
But maybe some of this loss was down to un controlled high blood sugar levels. I am 6ft tall, so soon I will be at the weight I should be for a healthy range, unless I put it back on!!!
I still eat the puds every now and again and CHIPS!!! I guess my puddings will now be smaller.....
I do not want to diet for both Cholesterol or Diabetes to lose the last 5+ bags of sugar
and I accept that it is a life style change to balance what my body needs to control both conditions, so my weight will lose slowly, I guess I cannot diet as such anyway....
I spent a lot of time balancing my Cholesterol, but now it is my sugar intake I need to balance, which now brings me to the current problem and me joining a forum, that I never knew existed.
I look forward to being part of a community, which in an ideal world should not need to exist
Regards to all, Ingat Ka Palagi as my wife would say, meaning take care always in Tagalog.
Woody