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Blood Sugar Management
Why I Choose Multiple Daily Injections over an Insulin Pump
I’ve lived with type 1 diabetes since 1997, and I have been managing my diabetes with insulin injections (multiple daily injections – MDI) ...
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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 increasing during and types of exercise? Or why ...
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Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
Frozen Shoulder & Diabetes – Everything You Need to Know
A frozen shoulder is one of those things that you might occasionally hear about, but never really consider or stress about…. until it ...
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Blood Sugar Management
How to Translate Your A1c to a Blood Sugar Level
An HbA1c reading on its own isn’t very helpful unless you know what it really means about your daily blood sugar levels.Understanding ...
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Food & Nutrition
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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Yoga to Increase Insulin Sensitivity (Yoga Video)
Rachel Zinman, the author of Yoga For Diabetes, has another great yoga practice for us today. It focusses on improving insulin ...
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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 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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Weight Management
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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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #3
Wohoo! You made it to week 2 of the Fit With Diabetes challenge and to another fun cardio workout.The concept hasn’t changed from last ...
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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #2
Are you ready to get your sweat on again?This is the second cardio workout for the Fit With Diabetes challenge. But you are of course ...
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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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Blood Sugar Management
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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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #1
Are you ready to get your sweat on?This is the first cardio workout for the Fit With Diabetes challenge. But don’t worry, even if you ...
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Blood Sugar Management
Diabetes and Alcohol: How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Sugar?
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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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 ...