Today’s topic for Diabetes Blog Week:
Let’s get moving.
“Exercise . . . love it or hate it? Do you have a regular exercise routine? Or do you have trouble finding your exercise motivation? How do you manage your insulin and food to avoid bottoming out during your workout?”
I’m extremely fortunate, in that I love to work out. I love the way it feels to strain my muscles, get my heart-rate pounding, break a…
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I’m writing this post as I’ve just returned from a two-hour bike ride. The endorphins are coursing through my veins, and I feel I just have to share: Did you know that exercise is medicine? It really, really is. Good medicine. Look: there’s a whole global initiative on it.
We PWDs know that we’re supposed to exercise, because it brings our blood sugar down and all, but it often seems like just another time-consuming diabetes…
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A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine published an issue with an attention-grabbing headline: Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin.
Won’t make me thin? you ask. Then what the heck am I bothering huffing and puffing and sweating like mad on the treadmill?
Good question, says the author, John Cloud. The theory, he writes, is that exercise makes people hungry. And because people eat when they are hungry, they gain weight (duh). People also tend…
* Part 2 of a three-part guest series on Diabetes & Exercise*
Dr. Sheri Colberg is an author, lecturer, researcher, professor, exercise physiologist, and expert on exercise with diabetes. She’s written eight books (including the Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook) and more than 150 articles on exercise, diabetes, healthy lifestyles, fitness, nutrition, aging, weight loss, diabetic Latinos, and more. Today, she’s with us here at the ‘Mine to help us think through the best type of exercise…
Have you also long been in search of a pack you can strap on during exercise that will actually hold the essentials you need for your diabetes? Hold your stuff in place, I mean, without bouncing? It seems someone finally invented one, and I kid you not, there’s practically nothing to it — just a slip of expandable fabric in the middle.
The Spibelt (Small Personal Items belt) was invented by a woman named Kim…