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Diabetes and Me: 'I can, after all this, live well'
Megan Whelan reflects on why she wanted to write about diabetes, and although she prepared herself to receive nasty messages, realised she didn't get many.
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Diabetes and Me: 'I had to prioritise myself and my health'
31 Aug 2022Going to the gym got me to the doctor to find out why I didn't feel better. Getting the diagnosis forced me to think about what caring for my body meant, writes…
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Diabetes and Me: The dangers of disordered eating
17 Aug 2022Megan Whelan looks at changing diet to deal with a health condition versus disordered eating habits, in this week's Diabetes and Me.
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Diabetes and Me: Never forget - you've got to still enjoy life
10 Aug 2022Megan Whelan thought she had conquered diet culture. In this week's Diabetes and Me, she realises the messages are still all there.
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Diabetes and Me: Getting creative with food
27 Jul 2022Tracking and weighing everything I ate was doing bad things to my brain. That realisation led to a much better place. I can still be creative with my food. I just had to change the way I think about…
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Diabetes and Me: Getting Covid
20 Jul 2022For two-and-a-half years, Megan Whelan has wondered, worried, and fretted about what it would be like getting Covid.
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Diabetes and Me: Finding strength through failure
29 Jun 2022Careers, fitness, character development in Marvel movies: things we often think have linear progression. But life doesn't work like that, Megan Whelan writes in this week's Diabetes and Me.
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Diabetes and Me: A well-paced playlist strikes right notes for a stellar treadmill workout
22 Jun 2022Action - like belting out a Taylor Swift song on a treadmill - leads to motivation, as Megan Whelan finds out during her journey.
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Diabetes and me: The game, not the player
15 Jun 2022Writing about money for Diabetes and Me last week got Megan Whelan thinking: why is this all so hard?
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Diabetes and me - counting the cost
8 Jun 2022Since her type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Megan Whelan feels like she's doing pretty well. But if she is, a large part of that has to do with the resources she's bringing to the fight.
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Diabetes and Me: Filtering out unsolicited diet advice
1 Jun 2022After writing about the emails she's received over the past 10 weeks in response to Diabetes and Me, Megan Whelan shares tips on how to handle friendly people who insist they know your body better…
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Diabetes and Me: Can I still eat carbohydrates?
18 May 2022What exactly are carbohydrates and why am I so scared of them, asks Megan Whelan in this week's Diabetes and Me. Turns out, they're not that scary after all.
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Diabetes and Me: On not having to miss out
10 May 2022Calorie and carb counting are often touted as ways to manage type 2 diabetes. Megan Whelan asks her dietitian how to manage her diet while at the same time trying to have a better relationship with…
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Diabetes and me: The emotional side
4 May 2022In Diabetes and Me RNZ's Megan Whelan speaks to photographer Pati Tyrell about the emotional strain of type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes and me: Life-changing diagnosis revealed in casual manner
27 Apr 2022In Diabetes and Me, RNZ's Megan Whelan shares her journey of learning to live with type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes and Me: Hooked on lifting
20 Apr 2022In this week's column of Diabetes and Me, RNZ's Megan Whelan shares her journey of learning to live with type 2 diabetes and explains why the gym is now her sanctuary.
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Diabetes and me: Making sustainable changes
13 Apr 2022My health is maybe not something I can fix in three months but if it isn't something I am being graded on, how will I know I have done well? RNZ's Megan Whelan shares her journey of learning to live…
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Diabetes and me: Wrestling with the causes of diabetes
6 Apr 2022It's not a particularly productive question, but it's the one that plagues me: How much is this my own fault? RNZ's Megan Whelan shares her journey of learning to live with type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes and me: My year of living right
30 Mar 2022In the first in a new weekly series, RNZ's Megan Whelan opens up about her journey with Type 2 diabetes.
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