Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Are you wearing green? Better yet, are you heading out to the bars after work to partake in a little St. Patrick’s Day celebrating? If you’re a PWD, you might want to take a few minutes to take a look at your “diabetes plan” to make sure you’re set — assuming you have a plan that actually addresses “the drink.”
Even if you’re not going out tonight, preparing your diabetes management…
All the most useful and intriguing things I learned about diabetes seem to come from other patients. No contest. Every time I correspond with folks in the community and read other PWDs blogs (as much as time permits), I am blown away by the stuff I hear about. I was fortunate enough to actually see Manny Hernandez and Anne Findlay live and in person in San Francisco last week. Here are three cool things they…
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A note today to remind you that this is the final week to send us your story and apply for a FREE DIABETES MAKEOVER. Who couldn’t use some individualized help getting their diet, exercise routine, and glucose control regimen into a healthy and productive groove?
We already have had a number of people writing in about their struggles controlling their weight, and how they’ve “started many exercise programs, but just can’t keep motivated.”
What I…
It’s finally here — the compilation of all the wonderful nuggets of wisdom from YOU, the diabetes community, that you shared with us here during the recent Holiday Survival Sweepstakes event.
In case you missed that whole to-do, we asked PWDs across the community to share some of their best tips about surviving the holiday season with diabetes: on exercise, stress, managing the “diabetes police,” travel, and of course, food.
Rather than lose all the…
When I first introduced the notion of a “Pimp Your Diabetes” contest a while back, plenty of you seemed enthusiastic indeed about applying for a free diabetes makeover:
“This is a wonderful idea. It will surely prove that however bad one’s diabetic health is, the patient can be saved by diabetes experts.”
“Will the diabetes makeover be free to the participants? That would make it the chance of a lifetime…a full diabetes/healthy lifestyle makeover and…