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One full year of logging
A year ago today, I decided I needed to get back into the practice of logging everything I eat. I'm celebrating today because I managed to log every single day for the last year - and don't plan on stopping. My original reason for the logging was to get my diabetes under control more than to lose weight, but happily…
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Does anyone else's blood sugar react worse to processed foods?
Over the summer I got a Dexcom meter, and since I now have a continuous record of my blood sugar, I've been revisiting my personal reaction to different foods. One of the trends I'm seeing is that I seem to react more to processed foods, and it looks like it might be whether or not preservatives are added. Has anyone else…
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Something to cheer folks up if the scale isn't showing you what you'd like to see
It would explain so much, wouldn't it? If only! :wink:
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Sigh... who knew there were this many calories in vitamins?!?
Today I decided to set up my food diary to track my medications and vitamins, and really looked at the nutrition label on my vitamin bottles. Yikes! I was expecting there to be calories in gummy type vitamins, but was surprised to see how many calories there are in some of those "just swallow this pill" types. In…
