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Personally I find that carbs per meal are more important to keeping my blood sugar in range than carbs per day. I try to aim for about 45g net per meal, but every diabetic is at a different place in the disease and you may be different. It also depends very much what medication you are on, since if you are on a med that…

Welp back to being under a heat warning! Depending on which local station you pay attention to it was anywhere between 98 and 112 heat index, felt more like 112 honestly! No cloud cover, felt like being baked alive. Also my knee with the weird meniscus has decided to start doing a thing again. My husband was feeling the…

Eek 1870 steps! Are you planning to invite him on your walks? Maybe now that he has the numbers in front of him he will see the benefits! Anyway bravo to him making a change a good luck!

MFP itself is a useful tool for learning which foods are high and low in carbs. Log your foods and read the carb content. If you are prediabetic you are probably safe eating no more than 45g net carbs (carbs minus fiber) per meal, which includes a two hour window. However, that’s not “low carb” but moderate carb. Low carb…

What I’m hearing regarding the 8 months is that they believe longer delays creates more lasting immunity due to the immune system “maturing” after the first two shots. However, I also have this sinking sensation that it’s mainly to give them time to get the system ready for a third wave of shots. Unfortunately after the…

So, the two big Memphis hospital chains, Baptist and Methodist, are calling for National Guard to help out with staffing shortages due to a large number of Covid patients plus staff sick with Covid. It’s starting to get real.

For some reason these discussions often seem reluctant to mention the most obvious source of protein, meat. Not just chicken breast but other lean meats such as pork loin and even sirloin are great sources of protein. Fish is another great source of protein. You can get a few extra grams of protein by eating things like…

I quit a major Coke habit when I was diagnosed with diabetes, and had the same experience with taste. It took about two weeks for the cravings to stop, but now it tastes vile to me. Haven’t had one in four years, don’t plan to. I never tried diet because diet drinks always did taste nasty to me. Weirdly enough, stopping…

Way too much sodium, I had Korean seafood silken tofu soup one day and Vietnamese pho tai nam the next day. Scale is up five pounds. I know it’s temporary but it still freaks me out!

My husband and I have an upcoming 5k which would be our first in person race since you-know-what. Assuming we do it, since supposedly our entire state has 6 ICU beds left and 96 people wanting ICU beds. So anyway yesterday we went down to train on the course, which we used to do all the time and haven’t done in a while due…

@7lenny7 It’s so good to see you and Cody back! Re: plantar fasciitis - mine went away when I started doing rocker squats to cure unrelated shin issues. Since the rocker squats also stretch the back of the ankle and calf, that’s probably why.

In addition to what you’re saying here, I find the process of food preparation of whole foods to be emotionally satisfying in a way which causes me to eat less and have fewer cravings. Touching and handling brightly colored fresh produce feels like it fulfills a deep need, which seems to be to be closely related to the…

FWIW as a type 2 diabetic who tests blood glucose after eating, there’s not a measurable difference in blood glucose rise between white and brown rice either. As you can see, they are nearly identical in net carbs and the added fiber isn’t enough to slow uptake of glucose. I do see a slight difference between white and…

No advice, just sympathy. I tore an Achilles’ tendon a couple years ago and thought I was going to lose my mind before I could run again. You know what you need to do, eat less and log strictly, and that’s no fun at all. If you can find cardio that won’t aggravate your injury such as stationary bike, elliptical or…

It’s actually a conspiracy thing. The belief being that the vaccine itself causes viral shedding in otherwise unexposed people. My mom has a friend who believes if she gets the vaccine she will start shedding spike protein as a result and harm others, particularly women who she believes are made infertile by the spike…

To be fair, the American standard of care is pretty poor and leads, on average, to terrible outcomes. ADA considers “well controlled” diabetes to be an a1c under 7 which essentially means you’re at an average bg which is continually cooking your nervous system, which is borne out by the high rate of amputations, strokes,…

Are you fueling okay? For a lot of people fueling a longer run is completely different from one shorter than an hour, most people need to start adding carbs at about 90 minutes of running but it varies.

It got hot again. Or rather, so humid that the moderate heat has an absurdly high heat index - 98 during mid morning by the river. Kinda getting used to it by this point. I wore my sports bra with no shirt for the second time, and for the first time in front of other humans I’m not married to! Noticed myself “engaging my…

The race pace predictor assumes a high level of fitness for long distance racing, and falls apart if you don’t have that level of fitness. For example, in my case I can do a mile in 8 minutes, 5k in 27, and 10k in 58 - which is about what’s predicted - but my current half is something like 2:35 because I haven’t trained…

Walking a cat sounds more like an excuse NOT to exercise!

I just read that! Sympathy to my kiwi buddies, hope you guys continue to keep the virus out of your community.

@skippygirlsmom It seems like yesterday I was congratulating you on Skip’s high school graduation! Wow she’s a senior! Great photos.

I’m tall and have always had a rounded upper back and forward head position. Two things have helped me, first was pull-ups and similar shoulder work, but the one which surprised me was, I have recently taken up belly dancing. Doing chest isolation work caused me to realize how inflexible my upper back was. After a couple…

Yep, it’s very difficult to calculate. But if we assume that the vax requirements skew the numbers such that 85% of meaningful exposures occurred in vaccinated individuals, we get a 50% effective rate, per your calculations, which would match what’s on paper for Pfizer. 50% effective in preventing infection from delta.

As someone who acquired type 2 diabetes from a poor lifestyle before deciding to get healthy, I would just like to point out that the decision to have a big belly isn’t entirely a personal decision, it’s a health decision, and having a sick or dead spouse has a huge impact on your life. Having fat around the midsection is…

The heat finally broke! We had flash floods Friday then Saturday was very humid and dank, but Sunday was almost pleasant even in the afternoon. By a certain measure of pleasant anyway, the temperature was between 83 and 89 while we were out, and the heat index got up to 98. But after running in 128, 98 felt normal! We did…

Again, the attendees who entered bars and venues were required to show proof of vaccination, which throws the vax rate for the state right out the window. Since it’s much more likely to become infected indoors, and only vaccinated people were indoors, it becomes a matter of comparing apples to oranges very quickly. What…

Do you have pain without weights or only while weighted? Try box squats to see if you are reaching back properly. Goblet squats are another one that helps with form problems.

Most of the beef pho entries seem to range between 300 on up to about 700 calories. I would pick one from a restaurant and guess which amount seemed closest to the one I ate.

Yeah it’s actually against site rules to do an 800 calorie diet without a doctor telling you to.