As a person with type 1 diabetes who’s been trying to lose weight for as long as I can remember, one of the things I often hear from other PWDs is that it takes twice as long to lose weight with diabetes as it does without. Now, I’ve checked with my expert sources and they tell me that isn’t true, but that doesn’t mean losing weight with diabetes is a walk in the park. Jessica…
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Happy Saturday! It’s time for another edition of our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, with veteran type 1 and diabetes educator Wil Dubois who tackles all sorts of quirky questions from our D-Community.
This week, Wil’s looking at options for weighing food, and also the medical profession’s various analogies for diabetes. He’s touching on everything from carb-focused apps to diabetes linguistics in this one!
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Who doesn’t sometimes need help navigating life with diabetes? That’s why we offer Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil takes on the questions of whether it’s OK to start using an insulin pump without consulting a healthcare professional, and when it comes to the proper amount of carbs, what is and isn’t a fairy tale?
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There are a heck of a lot of carb-counting “tools” out there. Today, we’re taking a look at the utility of one in particular…
My 10-year-old son Rio and I have been watching the 1960s Sci-fi show Time Tunnel on DVD. It’s about two government scientists lost in time. Every week it’s a different century. So my first impression of the new SureCount “carb tool” was that it must have fallen out of the Time…
Apropos to Halloween last week, a doctor I know — who happens to be an endocrinologist — recently offered me a piece of hard candy. Casually. Without hesitation. When I smiled and noted that my “condition” keeps me off that stuff, he insisted I was being “obsessive.”
Surely one piece of hard candy won’t do much to your blood sugar, right?
Ummm, that’s what I take when I’m low. For me it’s a treatment, you know…?
The…