Today’s post is all about exercise, or lack there of.  I am going to break this down into two sections.  One is what I am currently doing right now and the second part will be what I would normally be doing when I am not lazy.  Let’s start with what I am doing now, which will be very short. I do not get much exercise right now at all.  I do some things to help me get exercise in ways that don’t seem like exercise.  When I go to the mall, I park further away from the store, unless it is raining of course.  I take the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator.  When I...

To Carb or not to carb?  Well I am a firm believer that you need carbs, bottom line.  I don’t eat too many carbs, but I wouldn’t consider myself to eat a low carb diet either.  It is just a little lower than what a normal person would eat.  Right now I am not very active in the physical aspect of my life, but I normally am.  When I am working out and playing basketball and tennis, I NEED a lot of carbs or else I am exhausted and get tired so quickly when I try to work out. If I wanted to go out and eat 100 grams of carbs, oh well.  That is what I have insulin for. 1 lb =...

Wow, the biggest supporter.  This is a tough call because we are using the word “support”er.  I get a lot of “you need to do this”, “you should do this” from family all the time, but I don’t always get the, “how are your blood sugars”, “wow good job you didn’t have a blood sugar over 150 today.”  But I would have to say that I have 2 large supporters.  One is a worrier and is always concerned that I have enough insulin and supplies ordered and helps on the financial side of things.  The other is just my back up...

Day 2 of Diabetes Blog Week is all about Making the Low Go. I have made it pretty clear on here before that my favorite food, well candy, to use is Skittles. The next closest thing is sour patch kids or the watermelon ones, mmmmm. I don’t get to eat these foods very often, so when my blood sugar is low, it gives me the perfect opportunity to indulge and also fix my low. Unfortunately, the downside to Skittles is that they tend to spike my blood sugar after I eat them. If I have a regular size bag, I end up eating the whole thing which is too much. They are too good to stop once I...

I think Karen’s idea of running a diabetes blog week is a great idea and I am happy to be participating in it.  Day one is a day in the life of diabetes.  Well this post should be easy for me, being that the name of my blog is The Life of a Diabetic, that is what I blog about daily.  As diabetics, we all do the same things differently.  Sounds like it doesn’t make sense, but it does. We all test our blood sugar, but we use different meters and different times a day, etc.  So here is a normal weekday of my life. 7:00 am – Wake up and find some coffee like some sort of...