While I’m not a copious journal keeper, I have, for years, written down every penny I spent (see my personal finance blog if you want to know why). When I started my diabetes journey, I started doing something similar. I would write down everything I would eat. I was also hoping to manage my diabetes […]

Like I said earlier, I hate running. But I found that many of my friends were interested in it, so I got more interested in it for the social aspects. For someone like me, running isn’t fun. It hurts. When I was heavier, it hurt more. My knees and feet and ankles gave me pain; […]

Let me be honest about one thing here: I hate running. I absolutely hate it. But yet, I do it. I’ve now done four organized runs in less than a year and a half, including one marathon (although that was not my best exercise experience). But all that said, it’s clearly not my exercise of […]

I’m a social worker. More specifically, I’m a social worker who works in health care. Many of my clients over the years have been diabetic, lots of whom are what the medical world calls “non-compliant“; basically, folks who aren’t doing what their physician instructs them to do. I’ve seen the consequences of non-compliance, what Type […]

Hi. My name is Ryan and I’m a diabetic. This is not a twelve step program, but in some ways it feels like one. Diabetes is not a disease in quite the same way alcohol is, but like any chronic disease, managing it on an ongoing basis is a huge challenge. I learned I had […]