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<blockquote data-quote="mickey blue eyes" data-source="post: 947328" data-attributes="member: 208328"><p>This is the thing I find weird about it all, people seem to have pre-conceived ideas about who gets to be diabetic, I don't sit around stuffing my face in front of the telly all day. </p><p>I am a 55 yr old man who farms for a living, I have 27 horses (amongst other animals) to look after,(which means I NEVER get a day off whether I'm ill or not) they can all run faster than me but I seem to do more walking than any of them and a hell of a lot more carrying stuff around, I won't go into a list of the manual labour jobs I do around the place running a farm on my own but I will add that I am 5' 10 inches tall and vary between 13 to 13.5 stone which is by no means obese and I know from experience that if I try to do a day fencing or shoveling poo or splitting logs etc without putting "fuel in the tank" then I will make myself ill, I tend to get the shakes when my bs goes down to about 3, what I find is that I need to eat reasonably and reasonably often and every time I eat I have to take metformin to stop the sudden hike of sugar levels, even if I eat just meat and salad, it's my pancreas that isn't functioning, not my arms and legs.</p><p>I used to be able to eat a meal and run for ages off the energy but no longer, now I have to keep stopping to re-fuel and eat less at a time, these days if I eat a big meal I tend to fall asleep after... food coma <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mickey blue eyes, post: 947328, member: 208328"] This is the thing I find weird about it all, people seem to have pre-conceived ideas about who gets to be diabetic, I don't sit around stuffing my face in front of the telly all day. I am a 55 yr old man who farms for a living, I have 27 horses (amongst other animals) to look after,(which means I NEVER get a day off whether I'm ill or not) they can all run faster than me but I seem to do more walking than any of them and a hell of a lot more carrying stuff around, I won't go into a list of the manual labour jobs I do around the place running a farm on my own but I will add that I am 5' 10 inches tall and vary between 13 to 13.5 stone which is by no means obese and I know from experience that if I try to do a day fencing or shoveling poo or splitting logs etc without putting "fuel in the tank" then I will make myself ill, I tend to get the shakes when my bs goes down to about 3, what I find is that I need to eat reasonably and reasonably often and every time I eat I have to take metformin to stop the sudden hike of sugar levels, even if I eat just meat and salad, it's my pancreas that isn't functioning, not my arms and legs. I used to be able to eat a meal and run for ages off the energy but no longer, now I have to keep stopping to re-fuel and eat less at a time, these days if I eat a big meal I tend to fall asleep after... food coma :) [/QUOTE]
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