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Categories: Type 1
Tags: addictions caffeine diet soda
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For years I was a smoker. I smoked a pack a day at the very least for 15 years. Addiction is powerful.
I finally kicked that habit but realized that nicotine is not the only drug I am addicted to. The other is much easier to get and I am not sure I want to quit it yet.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: diet soda high blood pressure sodium weight loss
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These changes I wrote about recentlyare going pretty well. I'm choosing better foods to eat, only having human sized portions, and even cutting back on the soda.
I cannot believe I just typed that.
Soda. Diet soda is a vice I am not ready to give up entirely. I love soda in almost any flavor as long as it's diet odds are I'll like it.
But I drink a lot of soda. Way too much to be honest. And although diet soda doesn't seem to affect my blood glucose levels, the salt in it is not good.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
Tags: girl scout cookies temptation yum
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Well here's something I didn't see coming: Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Girl Scout cookies. I walked into the lunch room at work and there, on the stainless steel countertop, rested this never-before-seen box of cookies.
"Where did these come from?" I asked my co-worker.
"No idea," they said, through a mouthful of crumbs. "But they're pretty tasty."
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: calories food weight
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Today I started responding to a question left in a comment.
In the end, I decided this subject deserved its own post.
I have lost somewhere between 40 and 50 pounds over the past year and half. It depends on the day and the time of day and whether I've worked out - etc, etc...
Anyway, it's been a long, strange trip losing the weight. And the way I did it is pretty simple.
I stopped trying fad diets and started doing things the one way that I think really works. I made very basic, but important changes to my lifestyle.
I count calories and I burn calories. It's that simple. I used a calculator I found online to figure out how many calories I should be eating if I wanted to lose weight.
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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
Views: 800
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 1 Type 2 Children Food Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: children diet eating out elderly Family food Traveling
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One thing I've learned both living with diabetes (and hypertension and everything else) and having family members with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and other health issues is that no matter how far away you are, and whether that be in miles or in outlooks, the chronic illness of one is shared by the entire family. Here, many hands do not make "light work" -- that right goes to the bonds of love and familial obligation. While a large support network might ease the afflicted person's ability to live a full life, it means that a much larger number of people need to consider the needs of that person, that many more perceive an increase in their own risk for developing that malady, and that many more must learn to accommodate a family member's needs within their own lives.
To start with, it's hard to address diabetes without addressing diet. After all, they both start with the diphthong // dai //
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Real Life
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On my mom and I's Italian vacation back in May, I discovered a new love: risotto. A delicious Italian rice dish that's full of flavor and tailored to my own tastebuds. On the cruise, I had two types of risotto. My favorite was mushroom and spinach risotto which combines two of my favorite ingredients anyway.
I generally don't choose rice as a side dish or main ingredient. I'm more of a pasta or potato kind of girl. However, I do enjoy a nice dish of brown rice every now and then. So I'm not exactly opposed to rice, but not exactly enthralled at the idea.
So risotto was kind of a shock at how much I do enjoy it. Enough to even take an attempt at cooking it a few nights ago. For a first experience, it turned out pretty good so I thought I'd share the recipe with you.
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Categories: Food Fitness Real Life
Tags: energy drinks health issues hot weather summer issues water
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Many hot-weather health issues center around proper hydration. My last post discussed how much water we should be drinking, and whether or not fluids other than water counted towards that volume. I finished up by mentioning that in addition to the amount we consume, we need to take into account how quickly we process those fluids, and what should (or should not) be in the fluids we are taking to maintain proper hydration.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: allergies celebrations celiac Cookies cooking diet Family friends gluten-free holidays
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It seems that everyone has some sort of allergy or food intolerance nowadays. Many of us with diabetes try to avoid sugars (or carbohydrates in general). Those of us with hypertension must restrict sodium intake; those with high cholesterol, saturated fats. The incidence of anaphylactic peanut allergy seems to be increasing so rapidly that restaurants are putting peanut warnings on the doors to their premises. And then there's the most prevalent food allergy of all, wheat.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: allergies blood glucose management blood glucose testing diabetes at work diet disclosure eating out Family food choices friends hypertension role models sodium
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When friends in one of my Pagan communities talk about disclosing their religion to others, they borrow a metaphor from our LBGT friends: they "come out of the broom closet". It's kind of appropriate, considering that many are Wiccan and that witches are associated with brooms in both folklore and practice. When we disclose our diabetes to someone, we may talk about "coming out of the insulin closet". I'm not sure the modifier is appropriate for those of us who have type 2 diabetes and who don't (yet) require exogenous insulin. Still, "coming out of the diabetes closet" doesn't have the same sort of "ring" to it...
I've been open about my diagnosis (hard not to be when you're blogging on a major diabetes site!) for long enough that my original migration from denial to the "closet", and gradually stepping out to the degree to which I'm open about it now is beginning to get fuzzy.
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