{"id":31667,"date":"2013-01-02T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=31667"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:21","slug":"my-diabetes-new-years-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=31667","title":{"rendered":"My Diabetes New Year\u2019s Resolution: Not to Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This morning I realized I hadn\u2019t made any New Year\u2019s resolutions for 2013. I don\u2019t know why, but it kind of just caught me by surprise.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Well, it\u2019s not too late,<\/em> I thought to myself <em>It\u2019s still New Year\u2019s and its not as if they don\u2019t happen if made a day later. They don\u2019t usually happen because I forget about them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I started thinking about what I should resolve to do this year. Naturally, my first thoughts were about my diabetes New Year\u2019s resolutions. What am I going to shoot for this year? What should I try to improve? I thought about it for a few minutes. The first resolution should be a better A1c. I should resolve to get my A1c down to 6% or even 6.4%. But then I realized that that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been trying to do for the last few years and it seems ridiculous to resolve to do something that you\u2019ve been trying to do, unsuccessfully, for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31669 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Happy New Year\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Happy-New-Year-1024x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also thought of making a New Year\u2019s resolution regarding my weight, but realized that I\u2019ve already been trying to lose a few pounds, the same few pounds for a long time.\u00a0 So, another ridiculous resolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I kept thinking, trying to come up with a good diabetes New Year\u2019s resolution. I mean there has to be something I <em>can<\/em> improve (not just <em>should<\/em> improve) in my diabetes management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then I realized what my diabetes New Year\u2019s resolution was going to be. I\u2019m going to keep on fighting. Not give up. Not let the lack of good past results (i.e. improved A1c), or the endlessness of this process break me. I\u2019m just going to keep on trying, keep on doing my best and maybe, just maybe, I\u2019ll actually see an improvement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":31669,"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":[1277,490],"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>My Diabetes New Year\u2019s Resolution: Not to Give Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Naturally, my first thoughts were about my diabetes New Year\u2019s resolutions. 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