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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: awareness bad habits blind bolusing diabetes goals
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Throughout my diabetes life, I've developed some bad habits. I'm a perfectionist and hate having them linger over my diabetes. I've decided that I need to break these bad habits if I truly want to excel on my pump and in life. I'm at a point where I realize all the great things I'm looking forward to: establishing a career, starting a family, building my dream home. I don't want to miss one second of my future because I made poor decisions with my diabetes. So I'm challenging myself to make a list of the five habits of my diabetes life and work on curbing each one: (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management
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I'm very bad about changing my injection sites. I never had trouble with the infusion sets...I'd rotate those each time to a different area. But when it comes to a needle and syringe, I just can't seem to change my habits.
So for the last seven years or so, I've been using the easy access areas like my upper left arm, my left hip, and occasionally my abdomen. But after that many years of use, I've seen some odd difficulties here lately.
I've used my abdomen quite a few times recently. Long sleeve shirts or layers of clothing don't make my upper arm accessible. And it seems like each time I use my abdomen, my blood sugar plummets. Although I can't exactly say that I didn't misjudge the carbs and amount of exercise, I do feel like it might have something to do with it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: breaking habits motivation rewards
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Last week, I started a new "game" with myself. I call it Five For Five. I focus on five healthy habits for five days, earning points as I go and working toward a reward. Each week, the points accumulate for an even bigger reward.
I'm proud to report that I earned 23 of a possible 25 points last week. My daily habits were drinking three liters of water, exercising for at least 30 minutes, doing 25 sit-ups, testing my blood sugar three out of four times and not eating any junk. I expected finding 30 minutes to exercise each day would be my biggest challenge, but it turns out that wasn't the case.
The two points I missed last week were for sit-ups. The first one, I'd gotten as far as 15 when the little boy started having a melt down next to me. I thought I'd get back to the other 10 in a little while, but the day got away from me and I forgot. Then on the last day of the game, I didn't do them at all. (READ MORE)
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So, I recently had pin up photos taken - again. It had been almost two year since my last time in front of the camera - and I'm down another 20 pounds or so and feeling more confident than ever. One of the photos is above - not bad, I think.
On the day of the shoot, I wanted to be pump free. Since I don't use photographers who photoshop the heck out of people, and my last photos had a clear view of my insulin pump site on my thigh, I wanted these to be site free. I started the MDI routine on the Friday night before and I've been pump free since. I guess I'm taking a rather unintended pump vacation. I thought I'd start right back up on my pump the Monday after my Sunday shoot, but that just hasn't happened and it's now been a week and a half.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Real Life
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1. No. 2 has her first crush. It's cute and heart breaking at the same time. She has papers taped up all over her room declaring her love for this boy. Whenever she plays house she's always married to him and takes his last name. She constantly doodles his name on papers and her name with his last name. And makes lists of the names of their children. She's in deep, people. She's having trouble working up the guts to talk to him. All she really wants to do is say hi. She kind of wants him to know that she likes him, but she wants to tell him on her terms. One of her friends knows and apparently she told someone else. So now No. 2 is worried that the boy will find out. So we sat and talked for ages the other night about how to handle the situation. And tried to convince her of the best way to make contact. Poor thing still hasn't worked up the guts.
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