Sweet/from the editor
Hello and welcome!
Dear reader
Writing for you this issue:
It isn’t easy living with a long-term health condition that is largely self-managed
Azmina Govindji
and that can throw up a bad day at the slightest whim. We may feel that friends
Registered dietitian Azmina
and family tire of our ‘off days’ and that our efforts at managing well just aren’t
is one of the country’s
reaping the results we wanted. It would take a saint not to have a ‘Why me?’ best known healthy-eating
moment now and again.
experts and regularly
appears on television and
Well, with that in mind, and determined to start 2010 in a positive frame of
radio. This issue she talks
mind, we’ve packed the pages of Sweet with some really good ideas for making
no-nonsense weight loss
those little differences to your eating and fitness that could make really big to help lose an inch or two
differences to your long-term health. If you feel you may need a bit of a helping
around the waist.
hand, then Dr Leanne has eight really quick tips to help boost your motivation
levels – it might be a good idea to turn straight to page 70! Sue Marshall
Take a look at our food section for some delicious and healthy recipes,
Sue is an experienced
journalist and has had type 1
including tasty one-pot suppers (page 20) and fabulous low-sugar pear
diabetes since she was five.
desserts (page 26), and join Azmina, Sweet’s nutritionist, on her mission to
She’s the author of Diabetes:
help lose those all-important inches round the waist (page 40) – it isn’t as hard
The Essential Guide and
as you think!
runs Desang, a diabetes
accessories company. Sue
Nicola Joyce has been sampling new fitness ideas (page 60) and we take a
looks at the latest product
peak at newly diagnosed Geraldine Millichip’s releases and ideas for
diabetes diary entries and find out why
chocoholics on page 90.
‘journaling’ is so important (page 84). Plus the
Dr Leanne Hayward
issue is packed with news, real-life stories from
Dr Leanne is a specialist in
readers just like yourself and plenty of new
psychiatric medicine and
year’s tips on improving your health. also has type 1 diabetes.
As I said, managing your diabetes isn’t
For the new year she’s
always easy but we hope we can help, even in
brimming with positivity
and has an easy-to-follow
just a small way. Happy 2010!
eight-step plan to help
us all get super motivated
Sarah Moran in 2010.
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