JOYFUL DIABETIC

Insulin is a hormone that enables our cells to absorb glucose from our blood stream. Without sufficient insulin, our blood glucose levels increase and of course that’s not a good thing for us diabetics. If you do not have diabetes, your pancreas produces all the insulin you need. I started on oral meds (Diabenese) in [...]

As I meet with fellow diabetics, frequent laments include, “I don’t have time to… exercise test my blood sugar work on my attitude keep a log book of BG readings, exercise and food intake eat slowly Let’s establish that we’ve all got the same amount of time each day. The question is then one of [...]

Years ago I heard a top nutritionist say, “Dieting starts in the supermarket” and to this day I’m very cautious when shopping since I’m attracted to numerous things that are inappropriate for me. As a matter of fact, most of the time I stay out of markets since I know how tempted I get. I’m [...]

About 15 years ago I heard a speaker named W. Mitchell. His speech was riveting and became a catalyst for change in my life. Mitchell’s speech title was “It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do about it”. Mitchell’s life story is tragic (http://www.wmitchell.com/ ), touching and inspirational. His first brush with death [...]

The way we are is the way we believe we are. Change what you believe about you, and you change your life. Let’s start with believing we’re responsible for our thinking…no other force is operating in our brains. We are what we perceive we are and that comes from out thinking. Now, let’s remember that [...]

Our bodies are truly amazing! They use fat as their preferred storage medium for future energy. Just like a car stores gasoline in its tank to be used for trips before the next fill-up, the human body saves fuel for needs in the future. It’s the law of physics, conservation of matter, that governs what [...]