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Keeping those toes.
I was looking through old photos today and found one from a camping trip from several years ago. I look miserable! I was miserable! I was so obese that I barely fit into my camp chair, my legs and feet were swollen and the skin on my lower legs was dark brown, red and even…
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I can see a future now thanks to Keto.
This week I met with my Cardiologist, the doctor who recommended very low carb to me in the first place. I have seen him several times since I have started this process and he has been very pleased with the weight loss progress and health improvements. This visit was different though. This time when he…
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Fighting Inflammation with Food – starting with healthier fats.
Our Family loves to dip veggies in creamy dip – ranch dip, blue cheese dip, onion dip, herb dip, spicy chipotle dip. Let’s be honest, low carb vegetables are so much easier to eat when they have that little bit of creamy goodness sitting on top of them. My personal favorite dressing recipe was…
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You can do it too.
I am amazed at how many people hear my story and say that they could never do it. “I can’t cut the carbs”, “It just isn’t worth it” or “it is too hard to keep track”, I hear it all the time. Well, it really depends on how bad you want it. Are you struggling…
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So much has changed…
128 Lbs Down with Keto Two years ago, my body was incredibly inflamed, I could barely function, I was very sick and my health was deteriorating rapidly. Today, thanks to following a low carb ketogenic diet, my health is improving daily, inflammation markers are all normal, blood glucose numbers are fantastic, and as of today…
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“I can make you fat…” What I didn’t know about insulin.
I am embarrassed to say that I don’t know as much about insulin as I should. As a Type 1 Diabetic, my life depends on insulin 24 hours a day and yet I realize that I know only the basics about the hormone that controls my life. The more I study about it, the more…
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Bolusing Insulin for Protein
The first time I heard the term gluco-neo-genesis, I had no idea what it was and I had already been a type 1 diabetic for 11 years. 11 years… as a T1D (Type 1 diabetic) and no doctor, no diabetes nurse, no dietician, no diabetic educator ever told me about it! Why? I was…
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Before and After Low Carb
I’ve been a Type 1 diabetic for 12 years. For 11 of those years, my blood glucose numbers looked like the graph below – 164 mg/dl average +/- 46! It was not unusual for me to see blood sugars in the 200’s or 300’s on a daily basis and weekly low’s in the 40’s…