A congestion cold interrupted my exercise routine this week. Ginger and I talk about how to keep a temporary setback, like illness or injury, from completely derailing your efforts to make exercise part of your regular routine.
Workout Wednesday: Dumbbell Video
Here is the third installment of my postings about SweatBetes exercise videos for people with diabetes, Ginger Vieira and I talk about my first attempt at using the dumbbell weight video.
Workout Wednesday: Body Weight Video
In this second installment of postings about SweatBetes exercise videos for people with diabetes, Ginger Vieira and I talk about my first attempt at using the body weight video.
Workout Wednesday with SweatBetes
Ginger Vieira of Living in Progress produced a series of exercise videos for people living with diabetes. Developing a regular exercise habit continues to be a challenge for me, so I decided to try out the Sweat-Betes videos and see if they can help me with that.
Willpower, It’s Fueled by Glucose
Willpower isn’t about pushing yourself to extremes. It’s about making conscious choices and following through on those choices. Blood sugar levels can help or they can get in the way
A Hopeful Type 1 Tale
I just finished reading Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir, My Beloved World.
She starts her story shortly after being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child. Her parents are arguing over which one of them is going to give her the shots of insulin she needs to survive. As the argument goes on Sonia decides then and there that she is the one who has to give herself the shots.