I don’t like to watch what I’m eating. I’m certainly not one to count calories or carbohydrates although I do take a look at nutrition labels a lot. However, the fact that my sugars have been higher than they used to be, I’ve had to watch my diet a lot more closely. I’ve already pretty […]

I’m a little worried. While my training has been going well–maybe better than ever as far as running goes–I’m still not feeling 100% myself. I’ve had a cold and the cough that it produced is still hanging around. And I went to take labs for the first time in awhile this morning and my fasting […]

My diet has been lacking the last few months. I’ve known this was going to be an issue and my recent lab results show my hemoglobin a1c at 8.9, a far cry from the 7 it’s usually at and the 6.1 considered normal. This despite the fact that my exercise schedule has been reasonable if […]

One of the big problems diabetes face is amputations. Circulation in diabetics tends to be poor, which makes healing and feeling in the extremities–usually feet–an issue. What happens is that a diabetic may get a foot injury and not even know it. High blood sugar tends to be inviting to bacteria, so it’s just asking […]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post for this moment to honor someone: Recently I started reading Fat Cyclist, a blog that started being about bike related jokes but ended up being about fighting cancer, both on a macro level (Team Fatty is the largest LIVESTRONG Challenge Team) and a micro level (the author’s wife, […]

While I’m technically back at home, I’m still on vacation this week. Some of these posts may be a bit short, but they were written to give you something to read while I’m traveling as well as to continue on our ongoing themes: There’s no question there’s a cost to working out. In some cases […]

I’m sick. Not sick with diabetes–well, I am, I guess–or its complications, but with a cold. How best to deal with this kind of illness? It’s a question with many answers. The first is to try to prevent illness. Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. Still, someone like me who works in […]

I’m not a slave to numbers, even if I look at them regularly. When I found out I was diabetic, however, I had to learn what a lot of numbers meant–things like a fasting glucose, a random glucose, hemoglobin a1c, cholesterol, blood pressure. For a diabetic, the numbers that probably mean the most–because they’re monitored […]

While diabetes is a huge issue for the diabetic, it’s not their only health issue in the vast majority of cases. Besides the actual diabetes, frequently they also have hypertension (high blood pressure) and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), as well as obesity. In my case, I had all three. Only the first two were treated with […]

I think having a great primary care physician–not just a doctor who is smart, because there are tons of those, but someone you can trust and talk to–is really important. I was blessed with a couple of great ones. Some of the things that are pretty likely if you have diabetes is that the physician […]