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Categories: Type 1 Fitness
Tags: disease management Gym Resolutions
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When the new year started, I made a promise to myself that I'd get my butt moving again.
I had, toward the end of 2009, not been to the gym nearly as often as I'd wanted to and I wasn't eating as well as I should have been.
So much had changed in my life between summer and the holidays. I ended a long-term relationship, started seeing someone new, moved into a new house, and thew myself into the job I'd started last January. It was overwhelming and the routine I'd been in of gym visits four times a week and watchful, healthy eating took a backseat to all of the changes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: getting back on track starting new habits
Views: 886
Since classes ended last week, I've been able to step back from life and take a deep breath. This semester was absolutely insane. I was taking six classes (18 hours) and none were all that easy. On top of that, I worked my normal amount. Plus, I've further established Diabetic Echoes and held weekly meetings on campus.
Needless to say, I haven't had much time for myself or for my diabetes. I'm months behind on my logging. I haven't uploaded my pump information since September. I'm eating whatever is fast and nearby, instead of making conscious choices on my nutrition. Plus, I haven't kept a steady workout routine.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: attitude blood glucose positive
Views: 1775
This morning I made the decision to stay positive. So often I get caught up in the office drama and find myself jumping on the "bad attitude" band wagon. Not cool at all.
So far the day has been good. Each time I hear a complaint or a bad attitude I try to find something to say to brighten things up. It's funny how in almost every situation, you can find some good in it. That silver lining.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar testing
Views: 2093
Remember a while back, when I said Olivia was a pretty compliant, easy-going kid? Yeah, well karma just came and bit me in the arse. Holy mood swings, Batman!
I don't know what's going on with her (besides the fact that she's a 13 year-old girl), but I'm about at my wits end. She's sullen, she's mouthy, she's on the phone all. the. freaking. time. But what's really pissing me off is her failure to check her blood sugar.
Up until a week or so ago, I'd ask her every time I saw her eating something and before every meal, if she'd check. She'd say yes or no, depending, and everything was fine. Suddenly, though, I'm getting this attitude.
"Did you check?" I'd ask.
HUGE, HEAVING sigh, pffffing of the hair and a long, drawn out, sarcastic "Yessssssss, Mother, I diiiiiiiiiiid."
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions Real Life
Tags: complications new attitude tight control
Views: 2188
I was 17 years old when I was diagnosed with diabetes. My breakfast at the time consisted of a donut and a soda. I usually skipped lunch or just grabbed some chips and another soda. Dinner was whatever fast food my friends and I could afford which pretty much meant anywhere with a dollar menu of some sort.
Diabetes threw a major wrench in my teenage life. It was my senior year and I was drum major of our marching band and now this! My life was crazy enough. How could I handle this?
I did what so many people do, I ignored it. I should say that I did not completely ignore my diabetes. The "D" does not really let us type 1's do that for too long. I always took my insulin and stayed away from sugar but that was about it. I rarely checked my blood glucose level. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions
Tags: attitude happiness Lantus
Views: 1524
Day three of my Lantus experiment has gone great! I tested again today 2 hours after lunch and my sugar was 135. I was very happy to see that since I am feeling good on my new dose. Today I made sure to carefully watch my carb intake at lunch. I also made sure when I took my shot with an insulin pen that everything went in as it was supposed too. I realized last night, after I had already submitted my blog, that another potential cause of my high sugar could have been that my insulin pen had failed to deliver the dose. Whatever the case, sickness, excess carbs, or delivery error, I am happy to be back on track and moving in the right direction again.
Now on to something else,.
I have talked before about how amazing and wonderful it is to have today's reliable technology and medicines. I feel like I need to mention that again.
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Diabetes has clearly not been easy lately. Not that it ever is - but you know, it's beastliness lately has been kind of out of control. As I've written, some of that might be my fault. I think something that's been different, and likely throwing me off, is my attitude about living with diabetes over the past year. I'm having a much harder time remaining hopeful and positive than I have in the past.
I suppose this is a normal consequence of coming up toward another full decade of the d-life. Maybe it's also many of the not diabetes related changes I've faced over the past twelve months. Any way you slice it, things have been more challenging and I've been failing more than ever at maintaining not just control, but a healthy attitude.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
Views: 1809
It was 18 years ago today that I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
I was a senior in high school, had lots of friends, a steady girlfriend, was drum major of our band, and was always on the go. I had recently lost a bunch of weight which I attributed to my fast paced life of practices, dates, parties, and other stuff. I dropped 60 pounds with no effort at all. Since I had always been overweight I was pretty excited.
Night after night I would go to bed with a giant cup of water next to my bed that I would continue to drink all night as I woke up in between to go to the bathroom. I had to go to the bathroom all day long but that was only because I drank a lot. No biggie.
Well, now I can look back and see what my body was telling me.
One night at Drum rehearsal my band director asked me if I felt okay. I felt a little dizzy but had almost grown accustomed to it so I told him I felt fine.
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: Diabetes motivation role models self-care sugar
Views: 695
In today's environment of cheap-to-the-patient pills that can cure almost anything from a hangnail to cancer, it's sometimes difficult to make significant and often-difficult lifestyle changes on account of a disease or a medical condition. Rarely is this more evident than in the public appearance of Type 2 diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes emotions parents
Views: 1867
I was talking recently with a friend of ours whose twelve year old daughter was just diagnosed with type 1. As much as I love my friend, her attitude toward her daughter and her daughter's diabetes scared me a little. She uses the phrase "It's that simple," quite a bit. For example, she recently informed me that she told her daughter 'Sit your butt in the chair and test your bloodsugar. You have to do it - it's that simple.' She continued by telling me that crying about diabetes is not tolerated in her house. (READ MORE)
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