Top 5 gifts for a sweetheart with diabetes

It’s that time of year when there’s something in the air and the hearts come out to show love and appreciation. Now we get that buying a gift can be crazy stressful. Also, considering V-day is traditionally about chocolates, where do you settle? Because sugar is a cop out. But that doesn’t mean V-day has to be any less sweet.

So let’s start at the base. While giving something fancy is always exciting, there is nothing more meaningful than a gift that keeps on giving. Something that has an incredible amount of value and makes a difference, be it in small ways. And what better than a gift that will keep your sweetheart healthy? Skip those sugar-heavy sweet treats in favour of your bae’s blood sugar levels.

These days, aisles are filled with indulgences that fit right into the diabetes diet and will take care of traditional chocolates and pastries. Now that that is sorted, it’s time to channel your inner Valentine with no-fail gift ideas that will help with diabetes management and change life for the better.

Gift a Healthy Habit

Staying healthy has two things in common: A. building healthy habits and B. Sticking through with them. While the first one isn’t that hard, the latter is often a struggle. This gift will help with both. A membership to a gym, yoga sessions, dance classes, Pilates, or anything else that is not harshly strenuous on the body should do the trick. It is a subtle encouragement that will help unroll their mats, limber up, and keep them at it for a long

Exercise Tracking Gear and Shoes

Staying motivated to exercise can be incredibly tough, particularly with looming responsibilities of diabetes management. With motivation spiking and dropping at its own whims and fancies, your partner might just need a little something that inflicts excitement and takes the sting out of whittling the weight.

Fitness watches can help your significant other stay on track by giving progress a real-world meaning through statistics. The warm, fuzzy feeling he/she will feel on hitting micro goals will help fend off lack of drive over the course of time.

A pair of running shoes that fit like second skin and give him/her a surefooted ride will work as well if your partner is not tech-savvy. You can personalize it by accompanying him/ her on walks or jogs!

Aroma Diffuser

Diabetes is emotionally taxing and strenuous. While diabetes management is largely focussed on nutrition and exercise, there are high chances that your partner is missing out on holistic wellbeing. Stress is known to hamper with blood glucose levels and aroma therapy is known as an instant mood lifter. So why not add something that helps maintain your partner’s chi, to their repertoire? An oil diffuser along with a set of essential oils can banish the blues, tend to frayed nerves, and a plethora of mild maladies apart from helping him/her find Zen. Coriander, ylang, lemon, lavender, cypress essential oils are some oils that will give your sweetheart a mental escape.

Blender

We know how this sounds. A kitchen gadget, really? But before you trash it, read through! Imagine having to micro manage everything you eat in a single day. You can’t reach out for just about anything when you’re hungry. And when you’re hungry, having to spend hours prepping something that won’t screw with blood sugar levels can be extremely frustrating. Now that you get the perspective of the sheer magnitude of effort that goes into keeping diabetes diet in control, an extra superpower for your bae is much needed, don’t you agree? Enter: The blender. It doesn’t require that your sweetheart put in overtime in the kitchen. All it needs is throwing in a couple of diabetes-friendly fruits and veggies, some whizzing, and hey presto — a meal/snack sorted! Add an little edge to your gift by making your loved one a smoothie made out of all his/her favourite ingredients.

A Homecare Kit

Diabetes management can stress your bae out, seeing as it is time-intensive and takes truck loads of effort. From constantly monitoring glucose levels to following a strict diet to everything in between, the pressure is immense. A little help here can mean the world to your love. Put together a little kit with neatly stocked diabetic supplies such as a glucometer, medication, alcohol swabs, test strips and a fast-acting carbohydrate. Or you can just get one of these homecare kits that also gives access to a diabetes specialist, educator and nutritionist.

However, at the end of the day, what’s important is that you support your significant other through the little nitty-gritties of diabetes management and life in general. Leading the busy lives that we do, we tend to forget to tell the people we love what they mean to us. Even something as simple as telling them that you have their back will give them the strength to take on just about anything!