Swimming burns a lot of energy, around 500 calories per hour depending on your body composition and how intensely you are working, with slightly less for breaststroke than butterfly. Regardless of exactly how much energy you’re using up, it’s clear that in order to keep going at your best performance, you’ll need to fuel up.…

UPDATE: 12/04/2019 If you’re living with or affected by diabetes, you’ll no doubt have been closely following reports in the news about the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit on supplies of medicines, particularly insulin. Also, see below for what no deal Brexit means for European Health Insurance Cards. We want to use this blog…

This Swim22 challenge is tough! So if you’re finding it a struggle, that’s perfectly ok. But whatever you do, don’t give up. If you’re starting to feel tired and your motivation is waning a bit, follow these tips to keep you on track. Trick yourself Tell yourself that you’ll go to the pool but only…

Diabetes is demanding and complex. Whether it’s adjusting to being diagnosed, or trying to juggle diabetes with other long-term health conditions, getting the right emotional support alongside physical support is vital. There was no shortage of talk around mental health at this year’s DUKPC.  Diabetes and severe mental illness People with a severe mental illness…

As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time in the pool. At the minute I swim around five times a week and they are sessions between 4000 metres and 5000 metres a session. That means that I’ve done about 15 miles over the last four weeks since the challenge began. I head to…

For me the best bit about attending the Insider Day in Liverpool in March was meeting some incredibly inspiring Diabetes UK members. They had all come along to the conference centre near the famous Albert Docks, on an extremely blustery Saturday morning to meet some of the leading lights in diabetes research and care and to get…