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Categories: Type 2 Food Fitness Women's Issues
Tags: weight loss
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Time for me to brag a little. I lost 2 pounds this week. I still have at least 30 to go, but its a start. The previous week I didn't do as well. Just a mere little .4 pounds. And it was my first official week on the diet. Or at least on the Weight Watchers plan.
In Weight Watchers, I'm what is known as a lapsed Lifer. I became a lifetime member in the early 90's and have bounced in and out of the program ever since. After having a baby this fall, I really needed to get back on the program. So once I had my 6 week checkup and the OK to exercise again, I marched straight to the superbly calibrated scale of Weight Watchers.
I tried not to be disappointed last week when I had just a .4 loss. That's almost half a pound. And it did take me nine months to put the weight on, so I can't expect it all to fall off over night. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Food Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Atkins Weight Watchers
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How can you tell when you've tried too many different diets? When you can't keep the rules of them straight any more. This month, I'm following the Atkins diet. I'm doing it because my doctor took me off meds and I know from experience (and trial and error) that I cannot keep my blood sugar in healthy ranges without meds if I eat any carbohydrates. It isn't right, it isn't fair and there isn't anything I can do about it.
So Atkins it is this month. I started out the year on Weight Watchers. I've always considered Weight Watchers to be one of the healthiest, sanest, most practical diets. Unfortunately, it wasn't working for me this time around. The leaders keep saying the Core plan is great for people with diabetes, but I couldn't lose weight on it. Besides, I was eating mostly whole grains, fresh veggies and lean proteins. I think my portions sizes were too large. I did better counting points, but still that was a struggle to keep my blood sugar in line. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diets Low blood sugars weight loss yeast free
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This is Day Four of my diet. So far, I’ve eaten 30% fruit, 35% vegetables, 25% protein, and 10% potatoes (the potatoes are pulled out of the vegetable category because they are the only source of lasting carbs I eat). No vinegar, no fructose, no dairy products (oh man, I miss my milk and chocolate shakes!), no flour, no yeast, and many other no’s.
Day One wasn’t so bad. I didn’t eat a whole lot, but I didn’t feel all that hungry. My blood sugars were a little above normal. I averaged at 168.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: binge eating diabetes burnout diabetes diet eating disorders obsessive psychological issues
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Some years ago, I joined an online "healthy eating forum", expecting support in eating healthy (fresh, whole, medically-appropriate) foods in reasonable amounts -- the same sort of community support one expects from a community in which people are looking to lose or maintain weight. What I found instead was a community of young women in various stages of recovery from eating disorders or disordered eating, or progressing from one type of disordered eating to another.
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Today (March 24th) is American Diabetes Alert Day. Â This is the 21st year for this event, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), though I don't recall prior years. Â They did get a mention in Dear Abby, which I'm sure is the ultimate PR notice for this type of event.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: cholesterol levels complications diabetes diet diabetes treatment diagnosis hypertension MODY Obesity type 1 Type 2
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In observance of D-Blog Day, diabetes bloggers all over the world have been asked to identify six things they'd like people to know about diabetes. The following are mine:
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: diet eating disorders food type 1 Type 2
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At some time during our diabetic self-discovery, we are told that diabetes -- like most chronic illnesses -- is often accompanied by a second "D": depression. Considering the amount of time we need to put into consideration of our diets, exercise, drugs, and doctor visits -- and how much that takes out of what would otherwise be disposable income -- it's hardly surprising. Nor should it come to anyone's surprise that this level of attention to detail often smacks of another mental-health issue: obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. It is considered "normal" -- even encouraged -- for people with diabetes to arrange our lives around our blood glucose levels, logging every single reading, every single milligram of metformin or subunit of insulin, weighing and logging every single morsel of food or fluid that passes our lips, every step of exercise, every moment of every day of our lives. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications Real Life
Tags: celiac cholesterol Cookbooks diet diets food gluten-free hypertension low carb recipes religion sodium
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From deep in the throes of pre-Passover cleaning and shopping, old questions are renewed and new ones added to the litany.
As part of the seder (ritual Passover dinner), a child makes four observations, called Ma Nishtanah, starting with the question, "Why is this night different from any other night of the year?" He goes on to ask about the foods and rituals of the seder, leading the group into the maggid, or story, of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt.
My questions may be more secular in nature, and may change from year to year, but they are no less perplexing to someone who was not brought up in a Kosher home, and whose sympathies lie with those of us whose lifestyles are dictated -- at least to a certain degree -- by our personal health.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: Cookies cooking diets food food choices magazines Splenda sugar type 2 diabetes
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Well, it's that time of year again. The Web Warren Cookie Labs are setting up for the current season's
That we will be "open for business" is without question. That we will be performing a certain degree of "quality control" goes without saying. The sizes of most of the cookies (small to miniature) have been predetermined by previous feedback. The questions include how many varieties to make, and whether to use wheat flour or another flour, sugar or Splenda, butter or yogurt-based blends, how many versions of a particular variety to make, and which ones to decorate.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood glucose testing c-peptide carbs celiac Diabetes Education diagnosis diet doctors education Family HbA1c hypertension insulin low carb money priorities type 1 Type 2 Whole grains
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Yesterday, I responded to the question about "things you wish your doctors knew about diabetes and the daily task of living [with it] by mentioning that many healthcare providers' knowledge of diabetes is incomplete and/or out of date. Rather than be a part of the problem, I've proposed a first-draft solution — some things I would put into a Continuing Medical Education (CME) syllabus to fill in some of those gaps. I'm sure I'm missing rather a chunk of stuff, but then again, this is a first draft.
If I were to develop a syllabus to fill in the gaps in professional diabetes education, as I perceive they exist today, these are some of the things I would consider:
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