I'm Ginger Vieira, Type 1 diabetic, celiac disease, record-setting powerlifter and health coach/advocate from www.Living-in-Progress.com.
I'm here at the JDRF Research Summit of 2011 in Bethesda, MD. I'll be blogging live throughout the day as some of the world's leading experts in diabetes research. These are notes and excerpts from... Read more
It’s easy to look at a person with diabetes whose blood sugars are running up around 300 mg/dL and say, “Geez, you need to just stop neglecting yourself!”
It's easy to judge, to think, "C'mon, just do it! Just take your insulin and take care of it all!"
But the real question is, “By neglecting your diabetes... Read more
It isn't a rare thing to know your blood sugar before you even check it. If you've lived with this disease long enough, sometimes you feel your lows coming from a mile away and you can feel when your blood sugar is anywhere above 200 mg/dL. Maybe it's because you know you ate something, didn't pay attention to the carbohydrates, and didn't take... Read more
The idea of actually succeeding can be terrifying. To actually become the kind of person we dream about becoming? Often we say that we are afraid of failing, of taking the risk to reach our goals and never making it...but I believe there's much more to it than that.
We are afraid of winning. Of succeeding. Of changing old habits and... Read more
Rob is 46 years old, a father of 2 boys (15 and 18 years old). He grew up in Northern Virginia/DC area...and "hated it." He attended the University of Virginia, and immediately fled to northern New England where he's worked for LLB and a pharmaceutical company. He is also a registered nurse! He is an avid traveller of Europe and has hit every... Read more
