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Ginger Vieira

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Type 1, Health & Chronic Illness Life Coach, personal trainer

High Blood Sugars & Weight Gain...

One of the very important things I don't noticed being emphasized very often from doctos or diabetes educators, is the very clear fct that the more ups and downs you see in your blood sugar, the more ilkely you are to gain weight. There are a lot of physiological reasons for this, and I'll go into them a bit here...but the most important part of... Read moreChevron
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Ginger Vieira

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Lose 10lbs by August 15th...Summer Project!

Well, here we go, summer has pretty much started. For the past couple of weeks I noticed I was slipping into some bad habits of eating more sugary junk food (ie: chocolate and ice cream) than normal, and my blood sugars were starting to reveal this.   Nothing starts the day off worse than waking up with a blood sugar over 200 mg/dL. When I... Read moreChevron
posted 06/04/2010, comments (0)|
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Ginger Vieira

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Type 1, Health & Chronic Illness Life Coach, personal trainer

Diabetes Blog Week! Day 4 - To carb or not to carb?

Well, I've definitely gone in both directions. As a powerliftter, I had to carb-it-up, because my muscles needed a decent amount of carbs in order to repair and rebuild and grow stronger. But for the year before I began powerlifting I had really learned about and focused on eating a low-carb, low-glycemic diet, and I felt awesome.Yes, you can... Read moreChevron
posted 05/13/2010, comments (0)|
Andrew Berry

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Nutrition/Food Science & Dietetics, Personal Trainer

Four Week Intro to Weight Training

People go to the gym to weight train for many reasons. Whether you are trying to increase your strength, strengthen your bones, boost energy and fitness levels or just trying to lose or gain weight to improve your appearance, weight training is for you.  The problem for many people is that they don’t know where to start. For... Read moreChevron
posted 03/24/2010, comments (0)|
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Ginger Vieira

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Type 1, Health & Chronic Illness Life Coach, personal trainer

Adjusting My Insulin Doses for Changes in Exercise - Science Experiment

For the past three weeks, I have incorporated a regular and very intense form of cardiovascular training into my powerlifting workouts and the impact this has had on my blood sugars and my insulin sensitivity has been drastic! This is good, because it's increased my metabolism and I'm needing much less insulin than I needed a month ago! Meanwhile,... Read moreChevron
posted 03/10/2010, comments (0)|

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