Balancing diabetes and alcohol can be a tricky endeavor. Even in a non-diabetic, not only does alcohol affect certain people differently, ...
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Hiking with Diabetes
One of the things I love most about living in Southern California is that I can be outside wearing shorts pretty much every day of the year. ...
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Why Some Types of Exercise Can Make Your Blood Sugar Increase
Have you ever wondered why your blood sugar falls during certain types of exercise whilst roaring to sky-high levels during and after other ...
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What to Tell Your Personal Trainer About Your Diabetes
I haven’t always been a certified personal trainer or diabetes coach. When I started to get really serious about fitness, I was a corporate ...
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How to Treat Low Blood Sugar at Night
Having a low blood sugar at night is the worst. THE WORST! If you are treating your diabetes with insulin, you know what I’m talking about. ...
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3 Fitness & Diabetes Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
Today, I want to talk to you about some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about diabetes. I am not talking about the misconceptions ...
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Yoga and Diabetes – How Yoga Affects My Blood Sugar
I try to include yoga in my workout schedule whenever I can. It will never be my main type of workout (I love resistance training too much ...
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How to Stick to Your Diet and Workout Routine
So it’s Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the month or whatever, and you have decided that now is the time to make some changes. ...
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How Resistance Training Affects Your Blood Sugar
If you regularly do cardio (like running, swimming, dancing etc.), you have probably noticed that your blood sugar reacts differently ...
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Why You Should Include Resistance Training in Your Weight Loss Plan
When we think about exercising for weight loss, we tend to turn automatically to cardio workouts that get the heart pumping, build up a ...
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How to Find Your Formula for Insulin and Food Around Workouts
Like most people with diabetes, I tend to have a love/hate relationship with cardio. I love all the positive things that cardio does for my ...
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How to Lower Your Blood Sugar With Exercise
With a diabetes diagnosis also comes the daily task of self-management, and if you have lived with diabetes for any amount of time, you know ...
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How to Succeed at a New Year’s Fitness Resolution
Research shows that a New Year's fitness resolution can be exceptionally effective, as long as you have the right approach (you can watch ...
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How I Started Running with Type 1 Diabetes (After Saying “I Don’t Run” for Years)
Jennifer Christensen lives with type 1 diabetes and recently completed her first half marathon – even though she always used to say, “I ...
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Fasted Cardio and Diabetes: Friend or Foe?
If you ask 100 people about their thoughts on fasted cardio, you’d probably get 100 different answers, coming down to two main themes: ...
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How to Create a Resistance Training Program…from SCRATCH
You’ve probably gone to the gym before. It can be a jungle out there. You’ve got the people who scream or grunt on every rep as though ...
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Managing Blood Sugar During Exercise Using an Insulin Pump
Managing blood sugars during and after exercise is one of the trickiest situations to tackle as a person living with insulin-dependent ...
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Yoga is for Everybody (Yoga Video and How Yoga can Help People with Diabetes)
Rachel Zinman, the author of Yoga For Diabetes, has created this great yoga practice that you can do anywhere - at home, in your office, ...
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Gaining Muscle with Type 1 Diabetes: An Intro Guide
When I was 14 years old, I decided my goal in life was to get a 6-pack. “Why?” you ask. In gym class, as a part of our weightlifting ...
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Insulin Pumps and Exercise: Interview with Linda Franklin
After an inspiring interview with Kyle Cochran, American Ninja Warrior finalist, about why he chooses to use an insulin pump and how it ...