How Logging Data Can Help Improve Your Diabetes Control

One of the best ways that I’ve found helps me manage my diabetes is to make sure that I log everything from blood sugars, to insulin doses, to the food that I eat. It sounds painstaking, but trust me, it’s worth it.

Having data will help you make more informed decisions. And the more informed your decisions are, the better your control will be over your diabetes, thus, you’ll feel better (I hope)!

health and wellness, mindset, mental healthLeahMarch 27, 2019heath, mindset, stories, documentationComment

SixUntilMe: My interview with Kerri Sparling

My name is Kerri Sparling and I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of seven. I've worked full time since the day after I graduated from college (I've been a banker, service writer at a car repair shop, arbitration coordinator, aviation insurance specialist, editor ... diabetes has required me to keep working in pursuit of reliable insurance coverage) but the job I love most is the one I've been doing for the last 14 years, and that's working as a writer and speaker.

Kerri SparlingJanuary 9, 2019stories, interviews, T1D Comment

[Being Unstoppable with Type 1 Diabetes]

Type 1 diabetes can seem to strip you of a lot, you feel restricted at times and incapable at others, but this disease gives you a superpower that makes you unstoppable; you learn how to listen to your body. One might really enjoy the isolation of the gym and not the intensity of kickboxing, but what works for you can only be found through listening to your body’s response to the workouts. By listening to what my body wanted, I found that I am capable to do anything.

Ciara CrayDecember 4, 2018stories, interviews, T1D Comment

[Surviving Night Shift as an ICU Nurse with Type 1 Diabetes]

Nurses joke around about how working the night shift shortens your life spans and causes health problems - funny to say “night shift is killing me!” until you realize it is slowly sucking the life from you...not so funny anymore is it?

Now think about having diabetes - a disease with many varying factors - and I’m combining the two??

Karlyn Vande VegteNovember 27, 2018stories, interviews, T1D Comment

[3 Days with 500 Likeminded Diabetics: ONE TCOYD]

Welcome to TCOYD (Taking Control Of Your Diabetes), the land of the broken pancreas with enough sugar stuffed in fanny packs to go around. For many, this was the first time that they have felt “normal” as a diabetic.

Matthew Vande VegteAugust 27, 2018stories, T1D, motivationalComment

[Battling an Unexplained Hyperglycemia (300+)]

As I sat down to write this blog, my Dexcom G6 read 308 with an arrow up. Yup, I’m in trouble. Let’s explore where (and how) I messed up THIS BAD.

Matthew Vande VegteAugust 22, 2018stories, T1D, motivationalComment

[Refusing to Die] -- 6 Minute Read

To all my Diabetics out there, I know that I don’t need to tell you that Diabetes can cause complications. These complications include health complications, relational complications, and life complications. What I probably also don’t need to tell you is that diabetes can take more than a leg or an arm, it can take your life. The fact that you and I are here today is likely due to the fact that you stood up to diabetes and refused to die. I know this sounds a bit bleak, but the honest truth is, diabetes can really mess you up.

Matthew Vande VegteApril 26, 2018stories, T1D, motivationalComment

"From the Fight" -- Matt's Story -- 6 min read

"I was told I'd never eat sugar again." Matt Vande Vegte turned his diabetes diagnosis into his strength. FTF/From The Fight a beacon of hope for diabetics everywhere.

"From the Fight" -- Lisa's Story -- 5 min read

Diagnosed in high school, see how Lisa Vande Vegte's battle with Crohn's disease has helped shape her into the happiest & healthiest version of herself.