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. That feeling when you wake up in the middle of the night...
View ArticleHiking 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. It’s like summer year round and I take full advantage of it...
View ArticleDiabetes 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, different types of alcohol have very different effects on the...
View ArticleHow 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 that that’s no easy task. Not only do you have to become an...
View ArticleHow 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 depending on the type of cardio. While steady-state cardio will...
View ArticleYoga 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 for that), but it’s a great addition to my normal routine....
View ArticleHow 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 how your A1c accumulates over the course of 3 months and how it...
View ArticleWhy 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 you sometimes get high blood sugars after exercise? If you’re...
View ArticleWhy 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) since day one. I briefly tried an insulin pump, and it was not...
View ArticleInsulin Injection Sites: The Best Places to Inject
If you take insulin to manage your diabetes, you could be taking anywhere from 1 to 10 injections per day. And where you inject your insulin matters — not only because certain areas of the body are...
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