Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Biggest Loser

    This is the saddest excuse of a show I've EVER seen.

    They encourage extremely unhealthy weight loss in the first place.  The exercise is unsustainable, as are the "diets".  It's mentally and physically unhealthy.

    What got me the most, was the personal trainer who wouldn't let her team sleep.  Anyone with any amount of knowledge about physiology would know that putting the body in extreme stress makes it want to hang onto weight, not lose it.  Not sleeping would put these people over the edge.

    Very sad.

     

  • Medic Alert History

    October 23, 2004

  • Testing

    sending entry from moblog

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    From my Treo

  • Changing things

    I "spent" the evening working on the too tired thing.  Doing a bit of activity now, so I don't hit a time crunch later.  I'm going to spend the next few days focusing on making sure I get enough sleep and on a good schedule.

  • Frustrated with weight loss

    I'm really frustrated right now.  I'm having trouble doing a couple of very easy things, that help my control my eating.

    One of those is getting enough sleep.  If I am tired, I tend to eat to stay awake.  That makes my gastric reflux worse, making it hard to get to sleep and stay asleep.

    Yesterday is a good example.  I was tired, but didn't want to go to bed too early, partly because sometimes I then wake up early, and partly because I get tired of feeling like I sleep every evening.

    Then I woke up at 3:00 or so, because my pump went off and I was out of insulin.  Now that was something I could easily fix, because I'd already filled the cartridge.  But I trusted that I would have enough insulin.  Wrong!  And then it took me about an hour to go to sleep because I was refluxing.

    So then I had trouble waking up, and I've been sleepy all day.  Tonight though, I am going to work hard at not eating anything in the evening so maybe I'll sleep all night.

     

  • Losing small amount of weight will help you be healthier

    I've figured this one out on my own.  Since losing 30 pounds, only a fraction of what I need to lose, I'm using less insulin.

    http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/living/health/9952618.htm

  • Very good tips on weight loss

    And a few I didn’t know, especially the regular EKG. Makes me wonder if that’s the problem with the phen-fen drugs?

    Reality TV Check (washingtonpost.com)

  • Good review of Insulin Therapy

    Review of Insulin Therapy — Daugherty 17 (1): 10 — Journal of Pharmacy Practice

  • Dentist

    Just saw the new dentist. He was very pleased no pain. Cancelled the root canal and wants to watch it a month before he does fillings.

    Of course that makes Nov. 15th fun filled. Sleep doctor and dentst in the same day. I should see a shrink instead of the CDE.

  • Depo

    Got my Depo shot today.

    Supposedly some diabetics see some changes in blood sugar with depo but I don’t. However, I’ve been on it for over 12 years.

    I also don’t see monthly swings since Depo suppresses the cycle. I haven’t had a period in over 10 years. It’s very nice.