To do.
Thank god for long weekends, because lately, the list of things I have to take care of in this 27 year old body has been growing. Between diabetes, my hip, my knee, and my wrist issues, here’s the short list of things I’m supposed to do every day: Tendon gliding exercises for wrist Ice my [...]
Exercise my options…
Ok. Lookit. I know that exercise is good for me. That the cardiovascular effects alone are imperative to my overall health and beneficial to my diabetes control. I also know from years of being in the habit of exercising that it has a positive impact on my mental state of mind as well. But sometimes, [...]
First impressions.
I walk in to my boxing gym last Thursday, swiping my card at check-in. “Who’s teaching the 6 o’clock kickboxing?” I ask at the front desk. “The new guy,” says the girl, nodding her head to the right. I look over at “the new guy.” He’s a 6’2” Hispanic man that looks built Ford-tough. His [...]
Low mileage…
I somehow managed to book either a social bike ride or cycling competition for almost every weekend in April, so I thought this past Saturday would be a great time to get out on my road bike and a little training. One of my rides is a team triathlon coming up on April 11th, and [...]
There’s no budging it…
When it comes to exercising in the morning before work, I can be stubborn about a lot of things. Things like: “No, it simply cannot already be 5:00am.” Or “I’m actually not going anywhere, in particular the gym, without an espresso.” But there’s one thing that’s stubborn on its own almost every time I head [...]
I’ve had some poor timing lows too, Kris…
Exercise is a key component of diabetes management, but sometimes it seems nearly impossible to balance my workouts, insulin, and food. I’ve had many days when my exercise is interrupted by diabetes. Just last Thursday, I hit 54mg/dL near the end of my boxing class, forcing me to take in calories I had just burned, [...]
24/7
I remember being about 11 years old, just one year into being a kid with diabetes. I had a general understanding of the bad and good numbers that the little meter would reveal to me, but I wasn’t always sure of how I got there. I had gone to a Padres game as part of [...]
Yep. Just me and Mark Mcgwire over here…
I’ve had diabetes for 17 years, so I should be used to pretty much everything that comes out of people’s mouths in regards to my condition. But I’m not. Every so often, I have an interaction that boggles my mind in terms of social aptitude and general idiocracy. And my gym, bless it, has never [...]
Pass the eggnog, skip the gym.
I absolutely love the holidays – there’s Christmas parties, happy hours galore, my birthday on the 17th (yay!), and tons of family and friends in town to catch up with. One thing the holidays are often short on though, is time. Which means that certain activities that are usually on the high priority list for [...]
Me, now with fewer devices…
Last week when packing for Jersey, (can someone please get that state to stop stalking me, I don’t enjoy it) I bagged up all my supplies and back-up supplies, and I realized I only had 3 OmniPods left for my pump. It was October 25th and my next shipment wouldn’t arrive until somewhere around the [...]
