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 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. 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...