This book is split up in to 170 different questions, questions like:

• Can I catch diabetes from someone else?
• Why should I work so hard to improve my blood-sugar level?
• How will alcohol affect my blood sugar?
• I easily get overwhelmed with decisions. Would I do better if I had planned meals?
• Why is fat in food so bad?
• How can I make my favourite recipes lower in fat?
• How can I reduce fat in a meal when I eat at a restaurant?

This book is ok, but subscribes to the false, 80’s propaganda that fat is bad for you. Someone asking the question “Can I catch diabetes from someone else?” probably will buy this book and treat every chapter as the whole truth, furthering the pro-carbohydrate and anti-fat lies that are probably the route cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemic.

My triple entry Thai visa has been used and abused, I’m all out of entries and it’s completely expired so after first coming to Thailand on September 1st 2014, I left for Oslo on May 10th 2015 to meet a friend of mine and for operation Europe!

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Blood Sugar 101 is based on the author’s award winning website and as a newbie to diabetes I found the information in it extremely useful and laid out in a well written and ordered manner.

The book is basically a meta analysis of every single scientific paper covering diabetes that Jenny Ruhl has been able to collate, though I can’t help but feel that the book edges on the side of a gentle approach to the reader as it misses out a lot of the pertinent research that I’ve anecdotally read over the years and have been readdressing since I was diagnosed.

Last Friday I had my 2nd visit at the hospital with respect to my diabetes diagnosis, this was for a repeat test and some fasting tests for my cholesterol levels. I’d been measuring my blood sugar levels whilst on the treatment and they’ed normalised pretty quickly meaning that I have type 2 diabetes. The results of my latest blood test at the hospital confirmed my readings at home, giving me a result of 96 mg/dL.

One of the reasons I quit my job was because during 2014 I felt ill, a lot. My blood pressure was through the roof and numerous trips to the doctor didn’t really result in any progress.

For the past few months I’d get periods of up to a week where I was constantly exhausted, then I’d completely bounce back totally fine and resume training.

For the last 2 weeks, after Easter, I hit one of those periods and it just got worse and worse so I went to the Bangkok Hospital in Phuket to make an appointment. 90 minutes later I’d had the results back from a series of blood tests and a diagnosis of diabetes.