Talking about food, weight, and diabetes is a complicated and difficult topic.  Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes have distinctive patterns of diagnosis, management, and stigma associated to each, but they share a commonality; in that women who have either type of diabetes are at an increased risk for eating disorders¹ and both have pieces of management where hyper focus on food, calories, and carbohydrates are critical.  Add on top of that the relationship between insulin and weig

Our attention is pulled in multiple directions, likely more than ever before in history.  Think about a normal day, if it is anything like mine, this would seem typical: responding to a text while watching my favorite show, quickly checking emails, scrolling through Facebook, thinking about what I am going to cook for dinner, wondering if my presentation went well last week, then hollering down the hall to my husband to bring something from the kitchen.  I am not going to make the argument that

Physical fitness is an important component of everyone's lives.  Often when a person has diabetes, any type, I find that the medical team pitches the idea of exercise as a part of the medical regime.   This makes sense, because we know of the benefits on glucose control, insulin resistance, and weight.  However, when exercise feels like your “medicine” or just another task that is a part of your r

Unexpected things in life come up. If they happen is oftentimes out of our control, but how we respond to them is.  This month’s focus is on Emergency Preparedness.