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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: candy Halloween will power
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OK, I really don't hate Halloween. In fact, I really like the "holiday". I love to see well-done costumes and to watch my children have so much fun gathering all that candy and showing off their costumes. It's fun to watch them have fun. Even my office-mates enjoy the black-and-orange season. This morning we all walked downstairs to see the parade of three-year-old preschoolers come through in their costumes while trick-or-treating at the downtown businesses. We oohed and aahhed at the pirate, the princess, the flower and the pilot. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: dieting halloween candy temptation
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Happy Halloween! I suspect it is only in the USA that Halloween has taken on such huge proportions. It's the number two holiday for decoration sales. There are probably a lot of interesting psychological reasons why Americans are drawn to a holiday all about appearing to be someone else; but that's a post for a different forum.
As a person with type 2 diabetes, I really dislike the candy aspect of the celebration. In all honesty, I really LIKE the candy aspect, but dislike having to try and restrain myself. It didn't used to be ALL candy. Remember apples? But then the urban myth of the razor blade in the apple started and that was the end of apples for trick or treat.
Remember "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"? I haven't see that for several years. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: CDE Halloween
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The street we normally trick-or-treat on was consumed with kids and families last night. It was really fun because I can't ever remember seeing so many people out at once. However, with that many people parading up the street, some of us got caught in clumps. And one of my pet peeves is people I don't know walking too closely to me. I can't stand feeling like someone is literally breathing down my neck.
With The Mr. and the kids walking several paces in front of me while I dealt with some horrendous foot cramps (man am I pushing the water today!), I took the opportunity to stop and let someone pass me by.
"Hey, are you Michelle?" the woman asked as I stepped aside.
I was shocked that, first of all, someone recognized me, and that she could see me in the dark.
"Yes," I said.
"I'm Cheryl L."
"Oh my gosh!" I literally screamed. "Hi! How are you?"
"I'm great!" I think she was laughing at me, at my enthusiasm for seeing her. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: halloween candy
Views: 1369
Quick, top five Halloween candies.
Fine, I'll go first.
5. Baby Ruth 4. Whatchamacallit 3. Twix 2. Kit-Kat 1. Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
And just stop it Cadbury or Mars Inc. or any other bogus chocolate maker trying to come out with your own peanut butter and chocolate treat. Stop it! You're embarrassing yourself. None of you come even remotely close to the brilliance of the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup formula. When the kids get such wannabe candy dropped in their Halloween bags, I instruct them to throw it back from whence it came, like a home run ball to center field from the opposing team. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Fitness
Tags: holiday weight gain weight loss
Views: 1402
First off, let me say that in my New Year's Eve post, I said IF I were going to make resolutions, those would be mine! I gave myself an out already!
I could keep this information to myself but I know it will only fester. I would then feel the need to lie about my health plans, etc, etc. In the interests of dieting naked, I will be honest.
I have gained 10 pounds from my lowest weight of 2007, last seen at the end of October. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: Diabetes military veterans day
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Today we celebrate and thank all of the veterans who have stepped up to the plate to serve and protect our country's freedom. I have always been the guy who gets chills when I hear and sing the National Anthem. I was raised to be proud of my country and to love it.
All of those beliefs and feeling were solidified on a visit several years ago to DC. Seeing all the buildings I had only seen on TV and money we amazing. The sense of patriotism swam through my blood stream and gave me a lump in my throat through most of our trip. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Food Real Life
Tags: holidays pumpkin pie trick or treat
Views: 1931
Just a few days to go until Halloween; the first of the food holidays. The stores have been stocked with trick or treat candy since Labor Day. I have fallen for that trap before - buy treats for the kiddos in early October, then again the next week and again the next because the candy keeps getting eaten up. The past 2 years I got wiser and don't buy the Halloween candy until less than 5 days to go. (That's not as smart as it sounds since we have not had a single trick or treater since we moved into this house in the woods 4 years ago!) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food In the News
Tags: humor
Views: 474
Back by no particular demand, I bring you diabetes headlines.
Eat slowly, stay away from diabetes - Times of India
Don't look directly into its eyes, no sudden moves and for heaven's sake, keep your distance
Ontario Optometrists Help People with Diabetes See into the Future
"See" into the future. Get it???
DIABETES IS WEIGHING HEAVY; Obesity epidemic feeding a national crisis - Daily Examiner
"Weighing heavy." Get it???
Landmark Group opens registrations for 'Beat Diabetes' - KWT
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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For Halloween, Charlie went as a record-scratchin' hip hop DJ with diabetes. The diabetes part was easy but building the turntable was a little tricky. I wanted him to go as the Calorie King, but sadly it wasn't to be.
Had I thought of it earlier, I would have asked you all for some DJ name suggestions.
Maybe DJ D-Boy or DJ Infusion or DJ Broken Pancreaz.
I instructed Charlie to ask for celery if anyone tried to put candy in his bag.
What I find most challenging during the trick or treating is the fact that the little "fun-sized" candy bars don't have the carbs listed. I wouldn't call that "fun" whatsoever. To combat this, I did some carb cramming with the aforementioned Calorie King before leaving the house.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management CGMS sensors
Views: 1070
I feel like I'm in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
OK first let me say that I really don't like feeling like this. If I could ban SpongeBob from my house I would. When I'm surfing the channels for the kids (man is it hard to please a 9 year old, 6 year old and 3 year old at the same time!) I have to force myself to not scream "Over my dead body!" when they all scream/chant "SpongeBob! SpongeBob! SpongeBob!"
I get that we all need a little mindless entertainment at times (which is why I often choose solitaire over a game of hearts with the computer because solitaire takes fewer brain cells) but my God I just want to poke SpongeBob in the eye. And Patrick.
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