1) Emotinal Eating With Diabetes is just what it sounds like. Here is a book review by my alter-ego Molly Johannes at ASweetLife. It seems like the book essentially gets at the kind of daily emotional shaming and unhealthy thoughts that are a daily occurrence in the life of a diabetic. One of the things that chrystalzied for me when reading this book review is when Johannes (maybe quoting the author or herself, not sure) paraphrased these kinds of thoughts : “this is definitely, absolutely totally going to screw up my blood sugar later today. I don’t care. I’m used to it.” What I noticed is that this statement kind of denies the diabetic a sense of self worth to take care of themselves. It's not just diabetics. There is definitely a culture of willful self-harm; smoking, junk food, not exercising. People are assaulted by these kinds of choices to "indulge" or just forgo basic self care on a daily basis, but perhaps for diabetics, or at least for me, it is brought to the forefront; every meal or snack presents a situation for almost immediate judgement of one's actions in the form of a low or a high blood sugar.
2) The Time Travelers is the newest episode of How I Met Your Mother which almost brought me to tears. They managed to really creatively and poignantly express Ted's current situation of being left behind by the coupledom of his best friends. The episode utilizes time travel, a twist ending and a barbershop serenade (which you can watch below, but you maybe should watch the episode first.)
