{"id":23182,"date":"2011-12-26T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=23182"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:44:23","slug":"a-season-to-have-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=23182","title":{"rendered":"A Season to Have Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hanukkah, known to most as the festival of lights, is really (at least in Israel) the festival of donuts. As a kid growing up in Jerusalem there were no Dunkin&#8217; Donuts or other doughnut stores but every Hanukkah the city was covered with stores and stands selling \u201csoofganiot\u201d which are basically round donuts (deep fried sweet dough) with some sort of filling and powder sugar on top. Originally they were all filled with industrial red jam (the florescent kind that has no fruit in it whatsoever) but as the country has evolved so has the Hanukkah doughnut market. At first it was just the filling that changed. There were options like chocolate and butterscotch. But as life becomes more cosmopolitan, bakeries have started making fancy doughnut \u2013 baked, brioche, glazed and many others options (a few of which I have photographed).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23188 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a kid I ate my fair share of donuts, but they were never a favorite of mine and were not very hard to give up, even before diabetes came along. Not that I gave up donuts entirely before diagnosis but caring about my waist line, I kept it to a minimum. Since being diagnosed with diabetes almost a decade ago I have not had a doughnut , Hanukkah or Dunkin&#8217;, and how lucky I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-1.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23189 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hanukkah_Donuts-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I just know, seeing the amazing Hanukkah doughnut options around that if I allowed myself I would have to try at least one of each of the most attractive ones which would add up to at least one a day, if not more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So this Hanukkah I am grateful for diabetes keeping me thin and healthy and keeping me from temptation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On another Hanukkah note; it wouldn\u2019t be Hanukkah to me without Adam Sandler\u2019s Hanukkah Song (this is #3):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1sf5yqZX-k&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]\n<p>\u00a0And if you missed Jon Stewart &amp; Stephen Colbert Sing Hanukkah Songs here is another funny song:<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gK0b_4bBW0I[\/youtube]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Running Update:<\/strong> I finished my last week of hard work and have started to taper toward the marathon. I ran <strong>61<\/strong> miles last week including a 24 mile run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"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":[1165,424],"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>A Season to Have Diabetes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just know that if I 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