We all know what tends to happen after a successful diet, right? We go back to eating like we used to (and perhaps even have a few cheat ...
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Recipes
Chilled Beet Soup
This is one of the easiest, healthiest, and tastiest soup recipes I know. You can make enough Chilled Beet Soup to fill your freezer in just ...
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Food & Nutrition
Total vs. Net Carbs for Diabetes
If you are an insulin dependent diabetic (like me) and have ever tried dosing your insulin based on the “net carbs” listed on a food label, ...
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Food & Nutrition
My Favorite Healthy Fats (Including Recipes)
It’s been a little while since I wrote about my favorite healthy carbohydrates and healthy proteins. I promised you back then that I would ...
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Recipes
Zucchini Soup
The calendar says end of September, so fall is officially here. That means it’s soup time!Living in Los Angeles, we can’t really tell ...
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Food & Nutrition
Why Diabetics Also Need Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates seem to have a bad reputation, especially among insulin-dependent diabetics. As soon as we are diagnosed, we learn that ...
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Food & Nutrition
My Favorite Healthy Carbohydrates (Including Recipes)
This list of healthy carbohydrates is the follow-up to my post about good protein sources and Tobias’ two posts about how to calculate your ...
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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 ...
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Traveling With Diabetes
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Health & Lifestyle
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 ...
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Traveling With Diabetes
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, ...
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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 ...
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Products & Tech
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, ...
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Food & Nutrition
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 ...
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Health & Lifestyle
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 ...