After having reached normal levels of glycemia at all times and 3 months without medication (potential remission) we started to reintroduce foods I haven’t had for 9 months. Yesterday was pasta’s turn in the form of my wife’s mushroom pasta bolognese. As pasta is starchy, I was expecting a long…
Fight diabetes: why do I feel sleepy?
Glucose is essentially toxic for your body. It uses it for energy, but free-floating glucose stresses and damages cells. It also interacts with other products to make it worse. The resulting effects are varied from cell death and gangrene in extremities, to neuropathy. When your bloodstream is full of glucose, your body tries to store it…
Recipe: Buddha bowl
Trying to eat your greens can feel like a chore, it’s the end of the week and you’ve not been shopping, and your belly needs filled but the veg tray is a bit sparse. Time for a buddha bowl! This is a concept that took hold in Canada in the…
Fight diabetes: the results are in
I had my quarterly blood test yesterday to keep an eye on everything (the list is long; there are many pages of test results). The most important is my HbA1c. Everything else has been within normal ranges since September. When I was diagnosed last June after a random blood test…
Fight diabetes: take action immediately
It is more and more accepted that diabetes can be brought into remission. Some people call it reversal, but reversal implies that it is permanent and there isn’t enough data at the moment to support the claim (the DiRECT study lasted 2 years, the Counterbalance study lasted 6 months, the…
Fight diabetes: the importance of education
As diabetes is you and you are your diabetes, managing your diabetes is a personal thing. It’s up to you and you only to do what’s needed. That management can only be done through understanding. Education is the key. A lot of people ask questions that show that they want…
Fight diabetes: what about keto?
A lot of people swear by the keto diet. With it’s ultra-low carb contents, it tends to lead to weight loss. But is it good to control diabetes? We can compare the keto diet to other similar diets, e.g. Mediterranean and low carb diets. The evidence is that both keto…
Recipe: Herbie Mini Roll
Ingredients: Method As part of a meal of celeriac and curried cauliflower soup, with cheese for desert, the impact was minimal with a global +12mg/dl increase 1.5 hour after the meal.
Basics: you are your diabetes
The same way you need to accept early on that your diabetes is you, you you’ll need to accept that you’re your diabetes. For a lot of people around you, it will become what defines you. They might not be aware of many people affected by the condition (mostly because…
Fight diabetes: it’s not a competition
In this age of 24 hours a day social media interaction (unless you’re like me and don’t use twitter, instagram, or tiktok), it’s tempting to compare yourself to people online. Don’t. First of all, your journey is unique. It depends on the stage of your condition (how advanced it is…