About Christel Oerum

Christel is a passionate fitness enthusiast and the co-founder of Diabetes Strong. She is a Certified Personal Trainer specializing in diabetes. As someone living with type 1 diabetes, Christel is particularly passionate about helping others with diabetes live active healthy lives. She’s a diabetes advocate, public speaker, and author of the popular diabetes book Fit With Diabetes.

Christel Oerum

By Christel Oerum on August 21, 2015
Food & Nutrition

The Best High-Protein Foods (Including Recipes)

Earlier this year, Tobias wrote two posts about how to calculate your daily calorie need and macronutrients (protein, fats, and ...

By Christel Oerum on July 19, 2015
Health & Lifestyle

Travel and Diabetes Management

As I mentioned in my last post, Tobias and I are home in Denmark to visit our families and will be here for almost 3 weeks.The ...

By Christel Oerum on July 6, 2015
Traveling With Diabetes

How To Bring Healthy Food When Traveling

The suitcases are packed, the passports dusted off, and our food is prepped and packed. We are leaving tonight to go back home to Denmark ...

By Christel Oerum on June 28, 2015
Recipes

Marinated Steak and Broccoli

This Marinated Steak and Broccoli has to be one of the easiest and healthiest weeknight dinners you can cook. If you prepare the marinated ...

By Christel Oerum on June 24, 2015
Recipes

Strawberry Banana Protein Smoothie

This cool and refreshing Strawberry Banana Protein Smoothie packs 25 grams of protein and is the perfect way to cool down with a healthy and ...

By Christel Oerum on June 17, 2015
Recipes

High Protein Chocolate Overnight Oats with Almond Milk

If you want a healthy high-protein breakfast or snack, you’ll love this High Protein Chocolate Overnight Oats with Almond Milk recipe! It ...

By Christel Oerum on June 7, 2015
Recipes

Pickled Cucumber Salad (Without Sugar)

Pickled Cucumber Salad is the traditional Danish side dish to everything from hamburgers, meatballs, and sandwiches to chicken and pork. ...

By Christel Oerum on June 1, 2015
Diabetes Management

How To Manage The Blood Sugar Roller Coaster

Welcome to the blood sugar roller coaster!!! This last week has been one long ride up and down the blood sugar valleys.I wanted to write ...

By Christel Oerum on May 19, 2015
Food & Nutrition

How To Avoid Gaining Weight On Your Vacation

For me, vacation time is something I look forward to with a mix of anticipation and trepidation. I LOVE traveling to new and exotic places, ...

By Christel Oerum on April 18, 2015
Food & Nutrition

How to Find Your Daily Calorie Need

The cornerstone of any good fitness plan is getting your diet right, and to do that, the first thing you need to do is to determine what ...

By Christel Oerum on March 6, 2015
Health & Fitness Products

NuBells Review

Last weekend, we had the pleasure of spending a few hours with the team from NuFitCorp. We got to test both their main product, the NuBells, ...

By Christel Oerum on January 27, 2015
Diabetes Management

How I Dealt with the Weight Gain After My Diabetes Diagnosis

Before my diabetes diagnosis, my body was starving. I still had a little insulin production, so my body was getting some nourishment, but ...

By Christel Oerum on January 4, 2015
Diabetes Management

There is Nothing You Can’t Do with Diabetes – My Diagnosis Story

I have Type 1 diabetes. It’s an autoimmune condition that affects less than 1 percent of the world’s population, and can be diagnosed at any ...