Ginger Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999, and fibromyalgia since 2014. She is the author of Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes & Dealing with Diabetes Burnout & Emotional Eating with Diabetes & Your Diabetes Science Experiment. Ginger creates content regularly for Diabetes Strong, Healthline, HealthCentral, DiabetesDaily, EverydayHealth and her YouTube Channel. Her background includes a B.S. in Professional Writing, certifications in cognitive coaching, Ashtanga yoga, and personal training with several records in drug-free powerlifting. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their 2 daughters, and their dog, Pedro.

Ginger Vieira

Diabetes Burnout: Why It Might Not Be What You Think It Is (And How to Work Through It!)

The following is an excerpt from the book, “Dealing with Diabetes Burnout,” by Ginger Vieira. It’s hard to give just one definition for ...

Often labeled as a “low carb” food, nuts are generally considered a healthy choice for people diabetes, but like many healthy foods, they ...

This is an excerpt from Ginger Vieira’s book, “Emotional Eating with Diabetes.” You’ve probably tried a dozen (or two dozen) times to ...

Your blood sugar levels are a critical part of your overall health and your body’s ability to function properly on a daily basis. For those ...

Metformin is one of the most prescribed drugs on the planet with over 120 million people taking it for diabetes management, but that doesn’t ...

As people with diabetes, we’ve been hearing about the threat that diabetes poses to our eyes since shortly after diagnosis. In fact, ...

Whoever first decided that breakfast ought to be an enormous bowl of highly-processed carbohydrates, additives, and sugar is in big trouble. ...

Balancing diabetes and alcohol can be a tricky endeavor. Even in a non-diabetic, not only does alcohol affect certain people differently, ...

As people with diabetes, we’re often warned about the effects diabetes could potentially have on our eyes, fingers, and toes, but what about ...

If you read outdated books on living with diabetes, those of us living with this disease shouldn’t even walk around our house barefoot let ...

Diabetic gastroparesis can develop slowly, but eventually its symptoms become impossible to ignore as they will impact every part of your ...

This is a detailed article about what happened when I tried to experiment with a low-fat, high-carb diet lead by Cyrus Khambatta from ...

If your first reaction to “intermittent fasting with type 1 diabetes” is…”Oh my gosh, my blood sugar would be so low! I could never do ...

Well, I might have a crowd of people with torches outside my door for saying this out loud, but I can’t help myself: it’s really okay to eat ...

We all wish we could exercise like Arnold Schwarzenegger: relentlessly and mercilessly, but the reality is that many of us have several ...