{"id":630534,"date":"2010-01-14T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47615-an-anniversary-of-sorts.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:04:25","slug":"an-anniversary-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/630534","title":{"rendered":"An anniversary of sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sometimes it feels like just yesterday since I was diagnosed.  So much has happened in that last year and a half.  I&#8217;ve learned so much about this disease in that time, thanks to the people on this forum.  You guys have been nothing short of amazing in your insight and support.  I will forever be grateful.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago today was the last time that I stuck a needle in my belly.  That&#8217;s some cause for celebration, being med free for a year.  Going from some to none can be scary.  Diabetes feels like walking on a tightrope, but the insulin was my safety net.  For the last year, at least in the beginning, it felt like walking the tightrope without a safety net.  I knew being off insulin would be a stern test.  Testing my commitment to my new lifestyle.  I&#8217;m glad to say that my exercise regimen didn&#8217;t slip at all in the past year, in fact, I probably became a little more active over the course.  I wasn&#8217;t as good with the diet in the year I was off insulin.  On insulin (6 months), I think I had one &quot;cheat&quot; meal.  Off insulin (1 year), I&#8217;ve had 5 or 6 &quot;cheat&quot; meals.  But even so, those non-insulin cheat meals (higher carb) didn&#8217;t have any adverse affect on my blood sugar.  <\/p>\n<p>I wanna see just how long I can extend this med-free stretch.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like just yesterday since I was diagnosed. So much has happened in that last year and a half. I&#8217;ve learned so much about this disease in that time, thanks to the people on this forum. You guys have been nothing short of amazing in your insight and support. I will forever be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2E1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}