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@shanaber I feel for you with the reaction! Did you have to have emergency meds for the allergy, or was it self limiting? Booster shot Pfizer #3 is knocking me for a loop. I planned a rest day but I think I am taking at least two days. Woke up unable to lift my arm higher than shoulder level and I feel like something stuck…

Got my booster today so used it as an excuse to hike rather than running. Strava is driving me bonkers, it keeps rebooting in the middle of my runs! Wednesday ran 10k easy on the trail where we saw the bobcat. We looked for a bobcat, but alas that was probably a once in a lifetime encounter - we did see this very pretty…

@quilteryoyo I wonder if all that gravel in your half has anything to do with your hip issues. My first half was unexpectedly mostly on gravel and it really wore me out, I was feeling the hip strain for a long time afterwards. There was nothing really injured as far as I can tell, and it got better on its own eventually,…

Osteoporosis for one thing… some of the elite female runners have come forward to detail how bad a low body fat is for women over the long term. It’s worth a Google search for the long read. I don’t know if this will help, but I feel like if I were in your shoes it would help me. Remember that if you do gain too much fat,…

They could make the swag optional, with a base lower cost. I like the swag myself, and given that many 5ks have medals and shirts for $30 total, I’m guessing the percentage of that $165 that goes to swag is fairly small. Marathons cost way, way more than other races, even halfs, presumably because of a combo of the…

To the good advice given in the first post I would add that you should test in different situations because 150g of sweet potatoes as part of a mixed meal is different from 150g of sweet potatoes alone. And exercise allows me to eat many more carbs than I could eat without a spike on a rest day. When I did a long run the…

Is there a particular reason you want to stop metformin? Unless it’s giving you gastric issues, there’s no need to stop it. It doesn’t lower blood sugar directly, it just prevents it from rising out of hand. Since Met is also an appetite suppressant, encourages lean tissue, and research has found people who lose weight…

Sorry to take so long getting back, I wrote a post this morning but lost it and then had to go to work! Chances are good you are pretty dehydrated right now with the high blood glucose, and it can be hard to get a good stick in those circumstances. When I was diagnosed my fingertips were so dry that even the nurse had a…

What you want to measure at home is blood glucose. A1c is something that only changes every 3 or 4 months, so that gets measured in a doctor’s office. A1c is a smaller number than blood glucose - normal is I think under 5.3 and controlled is under 7. When I was diagnosed my a1c was 11, which means my blood glucose was…

I love your mantra! As a diabetic I can’t really eat Klondike bars, but the principle applies whatever the treat is. It even applies to life lessons other than diet. It’s really profound. Many of us say, “I’d kill for…” when in fact we aren’t doing the simple tasks to be able to afford what we could easily have.

btw feeling hot all the time and really dry is a sign of your blood glucose being high. In fact diabetes means “siphon” in Greek because ancient Greek physicians noticed that diabetics drank water and peed all the time. What is happening is your body is desperately trying to filter sugar out of your blood through your…

Okay, you need some help! I’ll try my best. I’m sorry your primary isn’t more use. First, about testing and numbers. Normal before eating is under 100 but up to 130 is considered “controlled” for a diabetic. After eating, normal can be up to 140 but controlled is up to 180. Since anything over 150 is damaging your nervous…

Actually refined carbs spike bg causing an insulin rise, and insulin causes hunger. It’s such a well known phenomenon that asylums used to punish inmates with insulin injections and not allowing them to eat afterwards.

I prefer calling it a treat, not a cheat - you aren’t competing against anyone so you can’t cheat! Losing weight is all about math, if you take in fewer calories than you expend you will lose weight. You can definitely eat enough in one day to wipe out your deficit for an entire week. So log even your “treat” meals and…

Yikes, that’s pretty high - a lot of doctors would put you on insulin immediately with that number. Did she give you any meds? How are you doing now? You mentioned an Ob, are you pregnant?

@katharmonic Your poor friend probably thought you’d had a stroke! Speaking of Strava, I can’t remember the last time it worked properly for me. Today it cut out so often that it only recorded half the distance my husband got on his watch, on the same run. I looked back at last month and it has been almost every run for a…

I don’t use a watch, just run with my phone, and the last time it rained, Strava not only stopped every few minutes, my phone randomly messaged an Amazon link to a belly dance outfit to my best friend from high school!

I looked on the internet at a random brand of Tom yum paste and it had 39% of the FDA daily recommended sodium in one serving - so, if you ate that three times daily, you can see the total would be over 100%. But there’s scientific discussion that the new RDA for sodium may be too low and that up to about 5000 mg daily may…

Oh dear, sorry to hear that! I have found that getting high quality, expensive chocolate and eating it in smaller amounts is more satisfying than huge amounts of inexpensive, flavorless chocolate. It might help. But it’s tough to resist impulses when you aren’t getting good rest.

Most of these seasonings have a ton of sodium which can be a problem if you have high blood pressure or kidney issues. But a healthy person should be fine. You can read a label, right? There’s nothing in there that’s not on the label. If a particular ingredient concerns you, you can make your own using dried peppers,…

Okay, I had never heard this about chocolate so I just looked it up. According to my quick Dr Google search, REFINED SUGAR has an inflammatory effect, but the phytochemicals in dark chocolate are actually anti-inflammatory and recommended as one of the best foods for arthritis, lupus, and similar autoimmune diseases. It…

That’s a lot! I have lupus, hypothyroid, anemia, diabetes type 2 and used to have Cushing’s due to an ovarian tumor. I lost 125 lbs down to normal BMI 4 years ago and have maintained since then within a 5 lb range. You can do this! My first bit of advice is to get your thyroid meds dialed in. If your doctor is conservative…

My husband and I saw a wooly bear on the bottom of a leaf at Chucalissa and he was solid black! Hopefully not an omen!

When I had an Achilles tear before a 10k, I asked if I could swap to the 5k since walking a 10k gets a little boring - if your race has a 5k option it might be something to consider. Sorry your hip is still bothering you, I hope it improves!

Goals for October are to run three times a week, trails, speed and/or hills, plus a long run at least 10k. Got out today for an easy 10k on the Greenline. Very annoyed because we were supposed to run yesterday and made other plans since the forecast showed thunderstorms all day, with the next day forecast beautiful and…

Not running today because of thunderstorms so that’s September for me, see you in the October thread! My goals were to run three times a week with speedwork, trails, and a long run at least 10k. And to do okay in my virtual race. I did okay in the virtual race and met my other goals except for the day the fridge broke,…

I’ve found sushi chefs are cool with using cucumber matchsticks to replace rice in either rolls or nigiri. Obviously not optimal but it allows me to enjoy the fish with more of a sushi mouthfeel than just plain sashimi.

Current recommendations say you should be aiming for 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise - enough to breathe harder. That’s 30 minutes a day every week day. I have no idea how long it takes you to walk up stairs, but probably not that long. If you could incorporate a little daily walking you could get there pretty…

Today my husband and I returned to T.O. Fuller state park to try to run more of the very challenging trails. Last time we ended up hiking most of it, and not quickly at that - averaged 23:45 mile pace. This week we ran maybe half? Pace was 14:08, and grade adjusted pace was 12:33 which is almost respectable! What we did…

As stated above, the best thing you can do is to quickly get to a healthy BMI. What I did to bring my a1c from 11 at diagnosis to consistently under 5 (in the normal range, not even pre-diabetic) is called “eating to the meter.” While a diabetic educator is a good start, every diabetic is at a different place in the…