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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: amputation complications neuropathy
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Right before I turned off my computer monitor last night I read an article about diabetes and amputations. The article is startling.
One statistic, “Currently 40,000 legs are amputated in India each year” really freaked me out.
Losing my feet is a major fear of mine. It is the reason I quit smoking. It is what kept me up all night last night.
I tossed and turned for hours on end. Every movement made me aware of my feet and how numb they always are. Neuropathy has taken its toll on my feet and it terrifies me.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Fitness Real Life
Tags: exercise goals quitting smoking
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It's already 3 days into the new year and I am still not "with it." In my defense I have battling a cold so my brain is a little foggy.
I used to make new year resolutions but is it just me or do we all seem to make the same ones each year? I always say that I am going to eat better, exercise more, yadda yadda yadda. I hear myself and sound like a broken record.
So this year is about goals. in 2006 my goal was to get on an insulin pump and quit smoking. I accomplished both of those. Last year my big goal was to lose weight and I finally joined Weight Watchers in August of 2007. So far I have lost 36 pounds but still have a way to go. On my personal blog I post my progress every week for all to see which helps a lot. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: amputation discussions sharing
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Last night my family and I went over to my cousin's house for dinner. Her dad, my uncle, was in town from Texas so we wanted to visit with him before he left. Our other cousin was there with her kids and we had a really lovely dinner. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Emotions Fitness
Tags: health issues quitting smoking
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Today is Kick Butts Day. It's a day when thousands of youth across the nation take on Big Tobacco to stop kids from even starting to smoke. This is the 13th year of the event.
I can tell you that when I first started smoking I was a Freshman in high School. My stepdad was a chain smoker. I used to say, "He uses one match a day for his first one then lights the next one off of the last one." That is what it was like. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Complications Fitness Real Life
Tags: A1c levels weight loss
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: quitting smoking support
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Categories: Type 2 Real Life
Tags: quitting smoking
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19 months ago today I quit smoking. That's about 11,500 cigarettes that I have NOT smoked if I had continued at the same rate. I got a lot of help at QuitNet, another great, supportive, free site.
I still crave them sometimes. My boss hasn't had a cigarette in over 20 years and he still wants one occasionally too. I've accepted I will just have to live with that.
This is the 25th time I quit smoking. I started my quest for freedom from nicotine 1/1/2000. In some ways that thrills me, because I kept working on smoking cessation (albeit not continuously) until it stuck. The "stick-to-it-iveness" my mother always wanted me to have. On the other hand, it's a rather pathetic statistic.
When I realized about a year ago that this was the quit that would stick, I felt like I could accomplish anything. I felt strong, confident and wonderful about my goals. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
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I’ve had a really hard time with my writing/not writing lately. In December I blogged only once, and so far this month I’ve blogged twice.
This is kind of weird for me because I’m so used to writing so often. It hurts, actually, that I haven’t been doing more of it. It’s not for lack of trying, though. I’ve written countless Post-It notes to myself with blog topics and have every intention of writing when I get home and then I don’t.
And it’s not like I’m forgetting to do it, I just don’t do it. Or I decide that I’d rather do something else. I think about the Post-It note stuck to my calendar and about all the things I would say in the blog and how wonderfully eloquent I would be. And then I just don’t do it.
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I really do.
I smoke cigarettes. It's been about a year since I started up again, after quitting for almost three years. I'm rather ashamed of myself. For the most part, I take good care of my body. I test, I dose, I watch what I eat, I exercise.
It is outright ridiculous that I'd make the choice to smoke. But it's a choice I've made, that's developed into a hard habit to break.
The first time I quit, I was not a full-time smoker. I had maybe four or five a day, and sometimes I didn't even smoke the full cigarette, disposing of half-butts with regularity. Since restarting, I'm finding myself smoking close to a pack a day. Frustrating, how it has crept up little by little and made me feel weak and rather stupid.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management diet Family food choices quitting smoking smoking tight control
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One of the earliest "grown-up" movies I remember seeing in the cinema was a comedy called Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke. The premise was that a small town would win what, for them, was an obscenely large amount of money if everybody in the entire town could stop smoking, "cold turkey" — that is, suddenly, as if the "off" button had been pressed and the power disconnected — for an entire month. The lengths the town fathers went to, to win, and the lengths the tobacco company went to, to ensure they didn't, made for laughter and hijinks that were accessible to even middle-school children.
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