Happy HoliDAZE: How To Keep Blood Sugars In Range During The Holidays

We’ve heard those outrageous studies that say Americans eat over 7,000 calories on Christmas and gain anywhere between 1-5 pounds between Thanksgiving (end of November) through New Years Day. While I don’t doubt the validity of these numbers, that's a TON. And what’s worse is as diabetics, there’s no information on time in range and how they vary during these months. Although my expectation is that they differ largely from the remaining months of the year.

[THE PROBLEM WITH WILL POWER] -- 5 min read

As a type 1 diabetic myself, I know the struggle of will power too well. Before I was diagnosed with diabetes, my diet consisted of what most teenage boys eat: pizza, ice cream, soda, hot dogs, top ramen, etc. I ate like crap, but I didn’t see any consequences, so I didn’t think twice. That all changed when I got diabetes. EVERY food choice I made affected me one way or another. Eating foods like pizza and ice cream aren’t great for blood glucose levels. Thus, the struggle between my cravings and my will power to resist began. Spoiler alert: will power failed me.

[It's Diabetes Awareness Month] -- 5 min read

It’s that time of the year again, no I’m not talking about the weird time between Halloween and Thanksgiving (but almost everyone is thinking about Christmas lol.) IT’S DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH. It’s not necessarily the “most wonderful time of the year,” but it is really cool that diabetes has an awareness month.I recently watched a video from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases about “National Diabetes Awareness Month” and the key point of the video was “you are the center of your diabetes care team.” Let’s take a minute to fully digest what that means.

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