JOYFUL DIABETIC

My greatest passion is speaking to groups of diabetics. My mission is to spread the Joyful Diabetic message—with self-care mastery and the right attitude your disease can be your friend. On September 17, I’ll be the closing motivational speaker at the Hungerford Diabetes Center Diabetes Camp. I am deeply gratified for this opportunity and look [...]

I recently read about a strategy for controlling the amount of food eaten at a meal. The advice is to leave the table “gently hungry”. This made sense to me since my body is slow to send me the message that I’m full and as a result, I eat too much. Over my adult years [...]

When I went to bed on Thursday evening my blood sugar was 124. I took one unit of insulin to cover the 15 grams in the protein bar that I was about to consume. Little did I know at the time that this was going to produce very low blood sugar. At 4:25 AM I [...]

Like many of you I spent the last few years working on developing a process for managing my diabetes. I’ve learned many things about managing blood sugar and one of the most important lessons was the recognition that our process is trial and error. There is no cookbook approach to diabetes management although many of [...]

From time to time people in my audiences asked me how I’m able to maintain a joyful outlook on life. I have found over time that it’s not automatic. I have to work at maintaining joy and my morning routine helps a lot. I’ve been an early riser for as long as I can remember [...]

Diabetes has a way of insisting on our being flexible in our lives. My wife and I love to attend Tanglewood as often as possible during July and August. Tanglewood is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. There are few things as wonderful as sitting on the lawn, having a picnic and listening [...]