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Categories: Food In the News
Tags: Black Soy Beans blue tortilla chips Chocolate cinnamon lettuce pumpkin
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Patti LaBelle is on the TV singing about how a certain glucose monitor changed everything. "Back then, food was the enemy," she says. My mind flashes to a host of studies I've come across recently touting different foods as the "cure." I can't help but see the humor in it.
We all know diabetes and food are so closely linked that often it's hard to deal with daily diabetic life without feeling like you have a major eating disorder. And while these new studies shouldn't give anyone a license to eat with abandon, it's nice to see research money being spent investigating food and nutrition, instead of new drugs.
Here's a look at some of my favorite new finds: (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: break chips endo stress
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The combination of applying a new insulin pod and watching the nineteenth century framed classic, “Sense and Sensibility”, left me in a peculiar state of English tongued thought:
Can the trials bestowed by diabetes ever leave a notion of temporary withdraw from its present course, lest we imagine the worst? At what point would one reprieve to dwindle its preoccupation? And namely- how the heck do you take a break from diabetes!?
Not seeing the doc for most of the year is a start.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management insulin pharmacy
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Today's lunch was a goodbye lunch for a colleague who is retiring. Again. We went to a Mexican place that had rockin' chimichangas. (I so love chimmies, but man does my blood sugar pay for it…it's been four hours and I'm still in the upper 200s despite taking oodles of insulin.)
As we munched on chips and salsa while waiting for our entrees, we asked B if he had any plans yet. Was he going to travel right away? Just sit around and do nothing? What?
"Well, we'll probably do some babysitting first," B said with a chuckle. B and his wife H don't have children and from what I can understand adore watching their grand nieces and nephews.
"Will you go to California or will they come here?" R asked.
"New Jersey," B said.
It was loud and B can be softspoken, so it was difficult to keep up even though he was sitting right next to me.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: low blood sugar
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I've gotten into the habit lately of bolusing for a meal more toward the middle or the end instead of before. It depends on a number of factors, including what and when I ate last, what I'm getting ready to eat, and what my pre-meal blood sugar is. This mid-meal bolus stems from several instances when I've either gone low or started to go low before I even finish eating. It's pretty unnerving to feel a low so close to a meal.
Like today, for example. I tested at 130 not long before we headed downstairs to eat lunch. Since there are few tables for the amount of people who typically choose to eat lunch in the lobby, I went ahead of the microwave-users to secure a place for the five of us.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: coworkers Diabetes hypertension salt type1 type2
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The sound of salt grains landing on the freshly served tortilla chips sent a look of injustice flying across the table. I watched this confusing exchange of two co-workers as I sipped on a diet soda at my corner of the table. "Did you ask Scott if it was okay for you to put salt over all of the chips?", came from the accusing coworker. I was instantly puzzled and was trying to figure out the punch line of what I thought was some misunderstood joke. I realized he was dead serious when the ensuing diabetes conversation hit the table. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Real Life
Tags: emotions
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With guests in our office, we went to the local Mexican restaurant for lunch on a Thursday. My Novolog pen was tucked nicely in the long, front pocket of my purse, which was sitting on the chair next to me. I had tested prior to leaving for the restaurant, so I felt confident that I didn't need to bring my meter with me. We ordered and started munching on the chips and salsa placed on the table in front of us.
I discreetly pulled the pen from my purse in anticipation of my lunch showing up and held it in my lap under the table. One click for the corn chips, one (maybe two?) for the beans, two for the rice. Sigh, the chimichanga is made with a flour tortilla. And cheese. Lots of cheese. I wildly guessed what I should take for the whole shebang.
Back at the office, I struggled to remember what time I had started eating. We'd been gone for about 90 minutes, but I thought it had only been roughly an hour since I took the Novolog. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: food pudding
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I used to tell my perinatologist and my diabetes educator that I was "rarely surprised" when they asked how my blood sugars were doing. (READ MORE)
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Fasting: 106. A little strange considering the readings for the previous two nights and subsequent fastings, but I'll take it. This is still a work in progress. Even though I'd like to try that test of cereal and milk this morning, an event later in the day has me not wanting to mess with my routine. So I settle on a bagel. Again. And two hours later, I'm still amazed when I test and see 87. I should mention that prior to Byetta, this is a meal that I would have taken roughly 4 units of Novolog to cover and certainly not ended up at 87 as a post prandial.
I'm starting to see some side effects, too. I think. I definitely don't feel like having a snack at a time when I would normally welcome eating just about anything. I don't feel sick, I just don't really feel like eating. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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Last night, Marvin called to meet for dinner spontaneously. He was craving Mexican food. I'd only eaten a snack after I got home from work so I made the half hour drive to the restaurant. I had two beef tacos with rice and beans and passed on the chips and salsa. I took my usual insulin, unsure whether I'd counted the tacos correctly with the mix of fat and protein.
Marvin and I went from dinner to his house to get some work done together. I've spent a lot of time lately helping him remodel the house. I think we are both very ready to have him move in. So I painted the closet doors and filled holes along the base boards and trim. It was late by the time I finished just the one bedroom, but Marvin still had work so I stuck around to read and chat.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
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I haven't ever been the kind of person to party, drink to excess, or stay out at the clubs all night. Maybe it's something in my personality or the way I was raised, but I never really had the interest. I never had that crazy party phase. I don't really want to, although I do enjoy a good night out with friends.
Like last night, I went out with some girl friends to watch a local band (one of the girl's husbands is in the band). We met at a Mexican food place then walked over to the bar. The girl I'm friends with is diabetic too, which is a nice thing when you're drinking and dancing and you know someone else there gets this disease.
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