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After ten months without alcohol, I fell off the wagon over Christmas. It reminded me of why I stopped drinking in the first place. When everyone had gone home after a successful dinner I drank the rest of an open bottle of wine while feasting…

The results are in! After spending a month de-stressing with action movies on Netflix and John Grisham on the bedside table my blood sugar is back to normal. Changing the amount of basal insulin from 13u to 15u made a difference within a few days.

Diabeteswise, it's been an awful couple of weeks. It started with a home exam in central-european history, followed by a cold. With stress hormones all over the place, the result was terrible blood sugars. As the cold's passing and I've figured out the long-term consequences…

Diabulimia is a sad condition where diabetics skip taking their insulin in the fear that it's making them fat. Blood sugars go up, and if you're unlucky, you can end up with diabetic ketoacidosis and die. It helps to know a little bit about insulin…

It's pumpkin season! Someone was kind enough to give me one, so the option was either to eat it or turn it into a trumpkin. I went with the eating option and chopped my pumpkin into 40g pieces, that I tossed in olive oil and…