Building upon my last post, I really enjoyed this little article that I found in a Prevention magazine…
Flipping through the pages, I came upon a personal journal that reflected on a particular ladies journey from diagnosis to treatment to management of diabetes. It was a great take on her situation and was very real and honest. I enjoyed reading the story and decided to share an excerpt…
“So here is the perfect ending to the story: I’m joining Weight Watchers, and I’ve started swimming at the YMCA… Now here’s the real ending: Every day, I get …read more

Go figure, I am on vacation and my blood sugars are absolutely perfect. Who would have thought? And to top it all of, my doctors appointment is finally this Friday with the endocrinologist. So when he says, “how has your bloodsugar been?”, I will have to say, “just fine, thanks”. Thank goodness for me I have my very handy dandy notebook that has recorded my every nutritional choice, as well as sugar check, over the last 2 months. And believe me there are some hum-dingers in there!
Do you keep track of your bloodsugars? …read more

Do you think that fluctuations in my sugar could be related to my hormones? I have been keeping a log of my diet intake and blood sugars throughout the last few weeks. Ever since my sugars decided to go through the roof. And you know what, I am convinced that there has to be some sort of direct correlation between them and my hormonal changed throughout the month.
I should have prefaced that with a little tidbit about me, well actually it is one of those TMI (too much information), but necessary in the story. I had …read more