{"id":13904,"date":"2011-01-31T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:55","slug":"neutralizing-the-sugars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=13904","title":{"rendered":"Neutralizing the Sugars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I head to the lab for a blood test this morning for my endo  appointment next week, I\u2019m reminded of how I used to approach my three  month blood test. One hour of exercise first, then off for the test, to  make sure that my daily sugar was low. It was sort of gaming the test, a  sign that I feared not only a \u2018bad\u2019 result but what the doctor would  see as a \u2018bad\u2019 result. And because I had big denial issues about my type  2 diabetes, a \u2018bad\u2019 result meant a \u2018bad me\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe it\u2019s age, but all of that has changed. Being older than my  doctor helps:). Or maybe I\u2019m actually more accepting of my diabetes,  which means that I also accept the readings as my body simply signaling  where I am on the spectrum of high or low, not good or bad. Today, I  simply head to the lab after waking up, without the \u2018prep\u2019 of exercise,  convinced that the reading \u2013 whatever it is \u2014 will simply be an  indicator of today\u2019s path. And that goes for the A1C as well. It will  give me a snapshot of how I\u2019ve been doing over the past few months, not a  judgment on my behavior or, for that matter, anything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having a chronic disease is tough enough without looking to it for moral guidance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[1035],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neutralizing the Sugars | ASweetLife<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Being older than my doctor helps. 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