food
No wonder I had a bolus problem…
…I’ve been getting my fruit from the sugar tree! Now I understand why it’s been so challenging for me to get the insulin right for some of my favorite summer fruits. They’re growing the carb count right in to these bad boys! If only the Insulin Tree also made delicious produce, with the correct insulin built right [...]
Summer fruits…
…mean some bolus finagling. I don’t eat a lot of fruit. It’s not because I don’t like it, it’s simply because I don’t eat that many carbs in general. We eat a ton of veggies in our house, so I do feel like I’m getting an adequate nutritional spread. But when summer rolls around and [...]
Treats to treat a low? Or no?
I found myself an hour after lunch yesterday with my blood sugar in a free fall. I’d clearly misjudged my carb intake at lunch and overdone it on my bolus. I was out seeing customers, so I pulled the car over and rummaged around my center console with a bit of excitement - I’d stashed [...]
Things that make me feel like a rockstar include:
Bolusing so perfectly for this potentially disastrous meal of fish tacos (protein + carb + fats usually = blood sugar land mine)……. ….that my CGM looked like this the next morning. Steady as she goes, all night long, nary a beep or a blip to disturb my slumber. [...]
Diabeteze Bars - Thumbs Up!
As a diabetes blogger, I get inquiries about reviewing food products for people with diabetes from time to time. As most of us have experienced, there’s a lot of false information about what is “safe” or “good” or “helps control” your diabetes out there. We have to look past label claims and investigate what actually [...]
Top Secret Burgers. No, really.
I’m not a huge fan of fast food. I think it contributes to the obesity and diabetes epidemic of this country, I think it unfairly markets to children, and I generally think it’s not very good for you – even the so-called “healthy options” (have you read the calorie counts for some of their salads? [...]
Back to the basics.
Saturday night, I got one of those compliments that most of us just love to hear: “Lex, you’re looking really fit these days - you been working out more?” Granted, this came from one of my very best friends who is always incredibly kind and complimentary towards me, but shoot - I’ll take a compliment [...]
The Not-So-Farmer’s Market…
When I see a box of pastries like those pictured on the left, plastered in stickers that say “for your health, “sugar free,” and “no sugar added,” I get this barely controllably impulse to throw every one of those boxes in the trash can. Why? Because in my opinion, stickers like that are utter and [...]
Mangled by the Mango: A Short Story in the Theater Known as Diabetes
The Scene: My couch. 9:45pm. The Protagonist: My valiant efforts to look up the carb count for a mango, and dose for it with laser-like precision. The Antagonist: Diabetes. Who else would it be? Alexis is ready to retire for the evening. She had a sensible dinner of chicken and spinach, with almost zero carbohydrates. [...]
Soup’s on!
This week has been really and truly and utterly SO busy, it’s a miracle I’ve had time to brush my teeth at the end of the day without falling flat on my face from exhaustion before reaching the sink. Work-wise there’s year-end business to tie up, presentations about my plans for Q1 to present to [...]
