Diabetic to Dietetics

I don’t care what anyone says, red wine is a brilliant training strategy! Case in point: About two months ago, Mario and I had dinner with friends on a Saturday…

Oh no! My toe is purple! Remember how I was complaining of swollen feet and bruised toes after Sunday’s 29 km run through the thick of the 34 degree temperature.…

Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to drop everything and scream, not whimper, not cry, but full-on scream? I’m talking standing in the middle…

The other day a girlfriend of mine let me in on a lesson that was drilled into her at an early age from her dad. The four most important words…

Okay seriously, where did the weekend go? I swear it’s like I blinked and it was gone. Probably had something to do with the fact that it was so chock-a-block…

Do you know what it’s like to have a stomach that looks like the arm of a heroin addict? I do. Ever since going on the insulin pump, my belly…

Today was Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day  and there was no way I was missing it. Not only was it a good deed to buy a DQ blizzard, with $1…

Oh man I totally wimped out today. I skipped tonight’s run, just like I did yesterday, but unlike yesterday, I’ve pretty much been berating myself all day for that decision.…

Ahh crud! I am so totally paying for that hard run that was supposed to be an LSD run on Sunday. My hip wasn’t quite screaming at me, the last…

Fear can mess with your head AND your blood sugars. We only had to run 19 km yesterday (I love being able to say to people “just 19” when they…

I really do need to learn some restraint, as it sure would come in handy whenever I walked into a running store. I had to go birthday shopping for my…

Oh-my-goodness. Last night, I left for my run with my mouth agape. Seriously agape. Runners, we like to talk, and not just about your run-of-the-mill, how’s-the-weather kind of stuff. We…