JOYFUL DIABETIC

For years I’ve been trying to make a game out of managing my diabetes. It’s sometimes challenging and I’ve found ways to amuse myself by being playful about my disease. I know that losing more weight could be beneficial to me so I challenge myself to reach a goal. For several months I’ve been trying [...]

I know from years of experience that measurement is important to achieving self-care mastery. A couple of years ago I started purchasing excellent products from Extend snacks (www.extendbar.com) and along with my order, I received a useful tracking booklet entitled “Get Healthy/Stay Healthy Program Journal. I’ve been using their tracking form since early 2009. Please view [...]

From time to time people ask me why I’m working with the diabetes community? I am motivated to help diabetics in need of information and education. My tag line is “Inspiring Behavioral Change” and that’s the focus of my seminars and videos. This site contains over 100 posts that are aimed at educating others. In [...]

We all know how important exercise is when managing diabetes; however, I wonder how many of us record our exercise. I’ve been around computers for nearly 50 years and am comfortable with using spread sheets to track the steps I take while walking. My goal is 10,000 steps per day so I started tracking results [...]

As in my previous post on this topic, the issue was high blood sugar. For those of us who test frequently we get very focused when testing reveals several high BG readings in a row and that’s when our problem solving engine gets started. On Friday, my problem solving was called upon to understand why [...]

Most of us know that support from our loved ones is essential to our success with diabetes management. My wife, Susanna Opper epitomizes that support. Susanna is my understanding and caring Type 3 diabetic (spouses of diabetics). She lived through my transition from multiple daily injections to using the Medtronic pump. Over our  years together [...]