How to ‘Guesstimate’ Christmas Dinner

As a person living with diabetes a Christmas dinner is one of the supreme disciplines. Although there is no actual recipe on how to deal with blood sugar levels on days that evolve so much around food, it is always good to not take oneself too serious. Last year, I wrote a little fun recipe for how to deal with Christmas dinner to explain to friends and family how Christmas dinner (and any meal tbh) mentally feels and illustrate the process people with diabetes go through in their heads...

“Imagine reinforced conditions. Not only is your mother stressed about the amount and heat of food, not only does grandma criticise everything, but your pancreas eliminates all insulin production and you have to do its work in regulating your blood sugar level…”