Food. I’ve said it before: you have to eat. Even if sometimes I view food as the enemy, it’s something I’m going to need no matter what. So, both as someone who’s diabetic and someone who’s trying to be athletic, I need to consider what I’m eating. There’s three different things to consider in terms […]
If you have success with losing weight, it’ll be very evident on the scale early on. If you’ve been eating poorly and not exercising for years, once you start, if you keep at it, you’ll definitely lose weight–and for a little while, rapidly. There’ll be other changes too. Your clothes may start fitting more loosely, […]
To a large extent, managing your blood sugar is like dealing with a car. You have necessary fuel (food), you may have some additives to your fuel (medication), and you have movement (your activity level). All of these impact your sugar levels. We all need food. That’s a given. Foods with more non fiber carbohydrate […]
Testing. If you’re a diabetic, chances are you have a glucometer of some kind. What’s a glucometer? It’s a (usually pretty small and portable) medical device that allows you to test your blood sugar. Usually you have a test strip that is inserted partially into the glucometer, a lancet with which you prick your finger […]
I’m not perfect; I’m often tempted by food. A friend of mine who is vegetarian but was an omnivore up through early adulthood used to tell me that even after years of not eating meat, his mouth would still water at the smell of it. “It never goes away,” he would tell me. One of […]
Having lunch over the weekend at work–I’ve now worked 15 of the last 16 days–one of the nurses I worked with commented that, “Food is good,” then looked at me and stated, “but for you, food is the enemy.” It’s a double edged sword, this relationship diabetics have with food. Like most but certainly not […]
Hypoglycemia–low blood sugar–is the biggest enemy of the athletic diabetic. Sometimes more food is necessary before a workout session. While I try to figure out more snacks during workdays (mostly I have cheese and almonds; in the past I’ve had organic peanut butter as well), Triple Workout Thursday is posing a unique challenge. It’s pretty […]
Write it down. These are three words I say all the time. I say it to my clients in parenting class every week; I say it to my coworkers who try to pass off information of importance to me verbally every day; and I say it to myself about just about anything important that comes […]
While diabetes is a huge issue for the diabetic, it’s not their only health issue in the vast majority of cases. Besides the actual diabetes, frequently they also have hypertension (high blood pressure) and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), as well as obesity. In my case, I had all three. Only the first two were treated with […]
I’m struggling. I’m struggling even more than my last post would let on, and my weight hasn’t gone down–in fact, it’s gone up a pound or two recently. I’ve also been having difficulty getting up in the morning regularly to do rides or runs. In fact, the only thing I’ve been able to get done […]