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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
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So, when I left you in my diabetes diagnosis debacle, we were all screaming at Harry and Ruth for not knowing more about diabetes (even though Harry was studying to be a diabetes educator. Yeah, seriously.). (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 In the News
Tags: hfcs High Fructose Corn Syrup sweeteners
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You may have heard in the past couple months that the FDA ruled that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and anything that contains it could no longer be labeled "natural". Surprise, surprise, the Corn Refiners Association has convinced them to change their minds this week.
It turns out that the "synthetic fixing agent for the enzyme used in the process does not come into contact with the high dextrose equivalent corn starch hydrolysate". So all the ingredients it takes to make HFCS are natural, except the major one that doesn't end up in the product, so it's "natural". Even though you or I could never cook it up in our kitchens.
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Categories: Type 2 Fitness Real Life
Tags: diet snacks weight loss
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I am up 1 pound from a month ago. I've been up as high as 3 pounds and as low as 2 pounds down. Truth be told, it's more like 6 weeks I have been doing this yo-yo trick up and down that 5 pound range.
I've been fairly good about logging my food. The days that the log stops at lunch are the problem. The afternoon snack attacks are sabotaging my efforts. I feel helpless to stop them. It's really detrimental to be feeling this way. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: hot pretzel
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"Guess what!" Susanne said with an enthusiasm that was clearly over-embellished.
"The whole school is getting a hot pretzel today. For free!"
"Uh huh," I respond cautiously.
"Not just Charlie's class. The whole school! Everyone! Everyone in the school will be eating a hot pretzel!"
"OK, I get it."
"Isn't it great???"
I applaud her use of sarcasm. Something I take pride in. We both know full well, this was in fact not great. Not great at all. Hot pretzels have never been kind.
"What is he?" I asked.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management food food choices
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The list of things I shouldn't eat is long. And I typically ignore the list.
I'm a chocoholic. Pretty much everyone in my life knows it (even my seventh-grade boyfriend knew it!). One of my favorite phrases is, "This requires chocolate." I do feel guilty, though. Well, not guilty so much as self conscious.
Today after lunch I got that familiar I-need-chocolate-after-lunch feeling. I grabbed $1.50 in change and walked to the other building.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS
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The view of our front porch is blocked from the side by a tree-like bush. But that didn't stop me from slowing down as I drove by on Friday to see if I could spot a FedEx box through the green leaves. No, I couldn't wait the two seconds to pull into the driveway to look for the box. Haven't I already established that I'm the world's most impatient person?
I couldn't get out of the car fast enough. Couldn't get the kids unbuckled fast enough. I had seen the white, blue and reddish box and knew it was the free sensors my DexCom rep said he would provide to me if I ordered the Dex system even though my insurance wouldn't pay for the sensors.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Emotions Real Life
Tags: Sneaking Food
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A poster named Peg asked a question on one of my recent posts. She wanted to know if I had any suggestions on how to get her grandson to stop sneaking food that he wasn't supposed to have.
I don't know what kind of regimen your grandson is on, so I'm not sure exactly how much help I can be, but I'll give you suggestions for what we've done with Olivia. Maybe one of these will work with your grandson.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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The only thing I really remember about eating sugar free after I was first diagnosed in 1993 is sugar free Christmas chocolates and sugar free wafers. The chocolates were sent every year by my loving aunt who was just trying to be helpful. Little did she know that they were incredibly disgusting and no kid was going to devour them happily. The wafers were a different story. My grandma would buy them for me and to me, you couldn't even tell they were sugar free. They were crunchy, airy, and just delicious.
I don't really remember feeling like I wasn't getting certain foods or like I was so different from the other kids. Maybe I did and I've blocked it out. I do remember my mother always trying to make me feel included. Sugar free easter bunnies if my brothers got the real kind. Yogurt with a small amount of sprinkles. Little things to supplement the sugar free life.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: free foods Jell-O
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I once blogged about how wonderful the world would be if only Charlie would eat Jell-O - one of the few "free" snack foods we have to work with. Back then, he would take pleasure in poking it, squashing it with a spoon or dropping it in his brother's diaper, but nothing more. He refused to eat it. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
Tags: carb counting sugar free foods
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A coworker asked me if I knew of a cake mix that was sugar free. She was asked to bake a cake for a friend who has diabetes.
That began the carbohydrate lesson.
"The thing is, although something may say 'Sugar Free' or 'Reduced Sugar' it may still have carbs in it which is what effects blood sugar. Sugar is included in that number." I did my best to not get too technical.
"Well I bought this one to try but I thought I would check with you to see if you knew of a better one," she said.
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