Category Archives: Diabetes Basics
How to Avoid Low Blood Sugar – Be Prepared
When you are pregnant with diabetes and trying to have tight control of your blood sugar levels, you are at higher risk for low blood sugar or hypoglycemia. I cannot stress enough how important it is to be prepared. There were many times I jumped into the car unprepared thinking I was only going to […]
Tight Blood Sugar Control Tip – Look or Patterns
When I was pregnant, I was able to gain and attain tight blood sugar control. My HbA1c level was between 4-5%. I tested often. I primarily was looking at how my body reacted to certain foods. I had noticed that if I ate high-fat foods such as Mexican, Chinese, and Pizza, that my blood sugar […]
Diabetes, Exercise and the Voices in my Brain
Today I read “Diabetes Treatment Should Focus on Metabolizing More of the Sugar in the Blood for Best Results” a blog post by Milt Bedingfield. The author writes about how most people focus on limiting carbs consumed, but what about the carbs already in our blood? Discovering this blog post is pretty timely as I’ve […]