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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: diet temptation weight loss
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In case you didn't know that acronym stands for, "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." I remember those words on the chalk board during my Economics class in high school. Yesterday this saying came to mind again.
During the day I get a phone call from one of our salespeople at work letting me know that he wants to treat the office employees to lunch as an early Valentine's gift. All the gals in the office were excited to get a free lunch but see it as a test of my will power.
Having to count points and carbs means I plan for most meals. I have spent the first weeks of the New Year luke-warm about my weight loss and I just recently got the fire burning again. Free lunches come with a price that I am not ready to pay. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: glucometers measurement accuracy Test Strips
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My relationship has changed, and I'm not happy. Over the past three weeks, I've lost so much trust in what I'm being told that I'm looking at "playing the field" again.
The relationship I'm talking about is the one with my glucometer.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing CGMS insulin insulin pumps managing diabetes money Oral Meds Politics Test Strips type 2 diabetes
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I've been somewhat ambivalent about today's rally surrounding the United Nations Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases. The libertarian "party line" is that the United Nations does little more than abrogate nation-states' sovereignty and forcibly redistribute income from the wealthier nations to the less-wealthy, dampening incentives for innovation and destroying private charity efforts which would otherwise improve the lives of those in need. On the other hand, the prospect of spending time with friends I seldom see in-person is an opportunity not to be missed.
It's a dilemma I'd been wrestling with for a couple of months, and friendship was winning over politics. However, neither friendship nor politics had the choice to decide.
The deciding factor was money.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food In the News Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes insulin Politics poverty
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In the rainbows-and-unicorns world of diabetes activism, it is often said that one of the most egregious oversights in international politics is the lack of available medical insulin in economically-depressed areas and emerging nations. Our standard-bearers act as if all we need to do is ship tons of strips, gallons of insulin, and forests-worth of needles to the middle of the African bush and every person with diabetes will live forever in the world of Blood Sugar Nirvana and No Complications.
The truth of the matter is much more complex.
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