Every Friday at this time I sit down to complete my Click & Collect order at Tesco.com. Every Friday at this time my mind goes completely blank! My husband was diagnosed with age onset diabetes at 50, he will be 58 this year. Last year was a bit of a non starter for us both. He had his meds changed again. While I was losing weight, he ate what I ate and our diets and lifestyle changed dramatically. Suddenly he began having 'hypos' which meant both the medication and his diet were both lowering his blood sugar so his medication was stopped. However diabetes is a progressive disease and it doesn't matter how well you follow doctor's orders and at the end of 2012 (just about the same time as my cyst appeared) his meds were changed and not for the better. Coincidentally at the same time his continental work pattern changed from 6 8 hour shift to 4 12 hour shifts with sometimes only 2 rest days in between and rest day working introduced which he has never had to do in his life. This man who worked out at the gym 3 times a week, who walked daily, attended 'insanity' classes with me, lost his appetite for life. He wanted to eat but whenever food was put in front of him he couldn't face it, he stopped going to the gym and classes and was tired all the time. At his last diabetic check up 6 months ago his GP took the decision to put him onto a more expensive medication but also had to reinstate the meds which he had been taken off 18 months previously. However this seemed to make all the difference, that and the huge changes we made to our diet at this time. We cut out ALL processed foods, ate chicken, fish, beef, grilled, baked or casseroled using only fresh ingredients. We eat more fruit and veg and he is allowed a treat like his weekly Bournville and a couple of bottles of real ale. The biggest change was in his fitness - he became a Crossfitter! Our eldest son bought him a month's trial for his Christmas and he was hooked. He's put on half a stone but is leaner and fitter than he's ever been. So this is about me and him getting our lives back on track.
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