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Lettuce-tuna salad
This afternoon I was in a mood to munch on something and thought up this. A low carb snack. Ingredients: one half head of a medium iceberg lettuce one can tuna in water just a bit of oil one teaspoon … Continue reading
Oh so sweet
We are conditioned or programmed if you will, to think that sweet means good. Looking at some kid and saying, she is such a sweetie is considered normal and even nice. If anything is extremely good, it’s “sweet”. Let alone … Continue reading
Posted in A1C, BG., diabetes, diabetes clusters, diabetes management, Uncategorized
Tagged A1C, BG, blood sugar, diabetes, diabetes control, diabetes management, diagnose diabetes, morning fasting BG
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Diabetic neuropathy and cold weather
Not a great combo and you hear this from the horse’s mouth. Remember when I was blogging about my neuropathy gone bad after eating some rice? https://comeinsitdown.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/carbs-rant/ I was thinking, how come it happened so fast after only one time … Continue reading
Posted in Crock Pot, diabetes, diabetes management, Uncategorized
Tagged carbs, cold weather, Crock Pot, diabetes, diabetes management, diabetic neuropathy, eggplant, low carbs, Slow Cooker, type 2
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Carbs rant
Just found out the hard way that I was overdoing with carbs. I did not check my morning fasting sugar in a while because it’s a chore. But I did feel my neuropathy getting worse so figured it must be carbs. … Continue reading
Posted in diabetes, diabetes diet, Uncategorized
Tagged blood sugar, carbs, diabetes, diabetes diet, neuropathy
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When your meter quits
My Accu-Chek Nano did just that. In the morning I pulled it out from its pouch only to discover that it’s, well, dead. The screen was dark and pressing buttons did absolutely nothing. My first impulse was to toss it … Continue reading
Life isn’t always going as planned
I have taken a break from blogging lately. Not because there was nothing to write about, but because something was happening that I didn’t know how to deal with. I have a brother in Chicagoland; he is a widower and … Continue reading
Posted in auto accident, diabetes, family, fiduciary duty, life, poa
Tagged breach of fiduciary duty, eviction, home ownership, life events, poa
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Low Carb Cooking
Pretty sure I didn’t invent much but I thought up the ingredients for having low carbs. I watch my carbs like a hawk and this soup followed the suit. Here goes . Low Carb Barley Vegetable Soup in a Crockpot … Continue reading
Posted in carbs, diabetes, diabetes management
Tagged carbs, carbs counting, cooking, diabetes, diabetes management, low carbs, low carbs soup, soup
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111 is my lucky number today
. This was my morning fasting BG number today. I don’t usually check my morning fasting BG every day. Heck not even every week. But lately when I do check it, it’s always good, no matter what. And how reliable … Continue reading
Posted in diabetes, diabetes management
Tagged BG, blood sugar, carbs, diabetes, fasting, postprandial
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Diabetic neuropathy, again!
Lately my feet were acting up. Killing me. I thought it was neuropathy and maybe arthritis too. Either way it was bad. Hot shower helped but only briefly, and then the pain was right back. Both numbness and pain at … Continue reading
Posted in diabetes, diabetic neuropathy, Uncategorized
Tagged dealing with pain, diabetes, diabetic neuropathy, numbness, pain, without meds
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Brown fat, cold weather and diabetes
About a week ago my morning fasting BG was a whopping 118; I couldn’t believe it. Thinking that it must have been a bad strip or a glitch of sorts, I rechecked and it was about the same. Ditto for … Continue reading
Posted in blood glucose, diabetes, diabetes management
Tagged A1C, adaptation to cold, diabetes, postaweek
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