Highest A1C in Six Years
My quarterly endo appointment brought news of the highest A1C I’ve seen in six years. More than six years. Ouch. I actually got a peek at the lab results a day or two before seeing the doctor, so I had a head…
Tag Exercise
I Ran a Half – Check Out my Medal!
After finishing an 8k with Insulindependence last fall I talked myself into completing a half marathon in Seattle and committed to doing so on live internet radio (it’s also recorded, so I couldn’t pretend it didn’t happen). I trained, and trained,…
Diversifying Exercise (and a Larry Bird)
I’ve been clawing my way out of an exercise funk that started around the first of the year. It’s been a terrible fight so far, and full of speed bumps. About eight weeks ago I started getting back to the…
Iris Checked my Irises – 2012 FFL Conference
Among other things, Kerri and I were responsible for being “room captains” of the Adults with Type 1 room (sponsored by Insulet (thank you!)) at this year’s Friends for Life conference in Orlando, FL last week. Being a room captain…
Forgot My Shorts…
With diabetes, preparing for any exercise or activity is never as simple as it should be. 10:30 AM – I actually remembered to start my temporary basal rate adjustment 10:45 AM – Blood sugar is 95 mg/dl with some insulin…
Dawn Phenom Minnesota Style
Insulindependence is a group of incredibly inspirational athletes living with diabetes who are on a mission to get people living with diabetes active. I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking that you are not an athlete, you are not…
I Did It! Tour de Cure!
Have you ever gotten yourself into something you weren’t quite sure you could do? I got myself very familiar with that feeling this Spring. When we finished the 25-mile Tour de Cure route last year I wasn’t ready to be…
Diabetes and Basketball
Diabetes and exercise is something incredibly hard to manage. It is difficult to get my blood sugar where I want it for exercise, and even harder to get it to stay there. For many people, managing blood sugars before, during,…
Sloppy Evenings, Low Blood Sugars, Guilt, and Fear
This has been an active week for me. It feels good. My body feels good. Four days of basketball, with one seriously kick ass weight session afterward. Four days of tossing a football around with my son and shooting baskets…
Angry About Exercise
I think one of the secrets to decent diabetes management is management … of priorities. November of 2010 I had the best lab report I’ve had since I was in my early 20’s. Best A1C, best cholesterol, best everything. I…
Life Coaching, Weight Lifting, Book Writing
How many of you have heard of Ginger Vieira? I guarantee that not enough of you have, and I’m going to shout her praises from the highest rooftop I can find. Ginger was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and celiac…
But I Already Spent That…
Have you ever thought of your willpower as a limited resource? Like money? You get a certain amount each payday, but once you spend what you’ve got, it’s gone! During the day I do pretty good. I wake up refreshed…
Spontaneous Exercise and Diabetes
I have really been trying to get back on the exercise wagon lately. Everything feels better when I’m exercising regularly, both physically and mentally. Within the past year or so, I’ve noticed that my body just hurts when I’m not…
Where The Hell Is My Dinner?!
I played basketball tonight, and it was miserable. I was looking forward to playing basketball tonight. I had been on the road all day, and was tired of the inactivity. I was hungry, so I stopped at a Perkins for…
Experiments, Wake Up Bolus, Breakfast, and Exercise
I was really fighting the blues through the tail end of last week and through the weekend. Really bad. What really kicked it off for me was some job stuff that I thought was going well, but wasn’t. So once…
I Feel Amazing!
I exercised today for the first time in a long time. It sucked hugely while I was working out, and I hated almost every second of it (ok, it wasn’t THAT bad). I’m very sure I will hate it even…
Stuck, Stuck, Stuck. Suck, Suck, Suck!
I need to get something off my chest. I am in the worst shape of my life. With major changes in my life routine since my work with Cozmo stopped, I haven’t kept up on my exercise at all. In…
Blood, Sweat, and Basketball
I finally took my sorry butt back to the gym today (Monday). I’ve got a boat load of excuses for not exercising, but in reality they are all bullshit. I could have made time for it, but just didn’t. Basketball…