Calorie Counting Days
December is disaster month for diabetes. Cakes, biscuits, sweets, lots of food glorious food, swilled down with alcohol and liqueurs to keep us in the Christmas spirit. New year isn't much better, what with the Hogmanay celebrations, lots of cheers for the new beginnings, and tins of toffees still to be polished off.
I am a bit of a past master at the dieting, all the systems and methods which Dr Xan van Tulleken talks about in his book I have already been through. My most successful ones have been Low-Carb and Two Day Fasting, which both achieved the desired results within a quarter of a year, however both of which my diabetic nurse disapproved of.
I will get my come-uppence next week, my diabetic nurse wants to speak to me, most probably after seeing my blood test results, which were for my CT scan and nothing to do with the D word, but hey ho there we go, we do live in the world of mass communication don't we.
Anyway, after reading How to lose weight well (apparently there is an accompanying TV programme) the diet stage of life has begun.
It was our first poetry workshop zoom meeting last night, here's the resulting poem after observing a table lamp:
As Yet Untitled
Tiffany
You gadfly, you dragonfly
Tiffany
Your style already stylish
Of course it is summer
Of course there is water
But the home-made lemonade, and the laughter
That was unique, wasn't it
Epiphany
Never to have been there before
Epiphany
Never to have truly known the score
