How much protein do you need for low carb diabetes management? What types of protein are best? What if you’re still hungry after a meal? What about protein for kids and athletes? Check out this video post as we cover all the basics of protein consumption for optimal blood sugar levels - and include both metric and imperial measurements.
Incremental Growth
Growth is not linear, it comes sporadically over time. The same with low carb for diabetes management. We cannot expect to have it all figured out on day one, it takes time, patience, evaluation, and lots of trial and error.
Five Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar
If you want to gain control of your blood sugar levels quickly, where do you start? Here’s a quick guide to get you on the right path to diabetes management by Registered Nurse and Certified Diabetes Educator, Allison Herschede.
MAKING YOUR “NEW NORMAL” NORMAL
You are sitting in a hospital. You have just received, quite possibly, the most devastating news of your life thus far. You are being told that your child, the person who possesses your entire heart, has a chronic and life-threatening disease, type 1 diabetes.
5 Tips for Diabetes Management
These 5 crucial tips will teach you how to create a successful, long term lifestyle change with low carb eating. Diabetes management can be easier. We'll show you how.
Goals & Small, Consistent Steps To Success
How do you set a goal? More importantly, how do you actually follow through to reach that goal? Learn how and why here - and practice with these specific steps to successfully reaching your goals.
Changing Insulin Needs: The Menstrual Cycle
How do hormones affect insulin needs? What's normal and where can you go to learn more? Find out about the science behind our hormone levels and how they create blood sugar fluctuations throughout the month.
12 Tips to Stop Overeating
With the holidays fast approaching, we're faced with more opportunities than ever to overeat. What causes the urge to keep eating in the first place and how can we avoid overeating in the future?
My New Body - Life After An Insulin Pump
Why would anyone willingly give up their insulin pump? I recently did and I'm reveling in my new-found freedom of multiple daily injections.
Spring Training Video Series
We've posted all 15 of our Spring Training Series videos here, along with links and useful information that was discussed in each video. If you're looking for a quick daily guide to get started with low carb for diabetes, this is it!
Let Food Be Thy Medicine
We've been told by advertisers that we're too busy to cook fresh meals. We've believed that convenience foods are in our best interest. We've been tricked. Large food corporations are funding our medical organizations with sponsorships. What happens if we DON't buy into that? What can we do instead?
Inexpensive, Quality Protein Sources
Although protein isn't the main focus of LCHF, it's the most expensive. Here are a few ways that you can help to stretch your low carb grocery budget, while including the necessary protein. Do you practice all of these tips? What works best for you and your family?
An Overview of Dr Bernstein's Plan for Diabetes
There are many recommendations for the management of diabetes but low carb eating, along with modern medicine, is the best treatment to avoid long term diabetic complications. Listed here are at-a glance tips from Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, to help maintain your best possible health with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Commitment vs Discipline
What's the difference between discipline and commitment? Which should you focus on and why? We discuss it all here - and where you should focus for success in eating low carb.
The Low Carb Secret Ingredient
For weeks, I suffered from varying degrees of dizziness, body weakness, headache and confusion. I had trouble finding the right words and concentrating on my writing. I felt absolutely helpless.
Of course I was thinking my problems were really serious. I was convinced I had a brain tumor or degenerative neurological issue. SOMETHING had to explain the symptoms I'd been experiencing.
9 Tips for Low Carb in a High Carb World
We all encounter times when we have no low-carb support: your workplace, a relative's house, a restaurant.... even in your own home. Everywhere we go, we're faced with other people's eating habits. This time of year is particularly bad. Between Halloween and New Year, it's a constant barrage of high-carb foods and the common practice of Celebration = Treats.
Why You Should Do A Whole30
The Whole30 re-set program, based on Paleo principles, helped me tremendously in understanding that grains have a negative affect on my body. While I didn't achieve the blood glucose stability following the Whole30 as I do with Dr. Bernstein's low-carb program, reading the book It Starts With Food, and following two months of Whole30 protocol before starting low-carb were invaluable experience for me.
15 Tips For Low Carb On A Budget
Eating a low carbohydrate diet can get expensive. Here are 15 tips to help you make the most of your food budget every month. Some of the tips are common sense, while others are based on traditional food prep and storage techniques that our grandparents may have used.
Use Your Words
I ask my girls to use their words frequently. They might be having trouble expressing their emotions, or telling a story, or trying to figure out what to say to friends in certain situations. Together, we talk about how to talk about things.
Then about a week ago, I read this beautiful post from Momastery.com about how to help your kids choose the right words to avoid peer pressure. Because, as she writes, when we're put on the spot, we panic.
This applies to our low-carb lifestyle, too. As people who eat very differently from the general population, we face pressure every day and need to have responses ready those times we feel pressure.
A Handful of Nuts
Eating nuts can be a challenge for many people because it's so easy to overeat. I struggle with this on a regular basis, as written in the previous post, Perfection is A Myth.
We justify it by saying, "I'm just going to grab a handful," but then we don't stop at just one. Well, what actually is a handful of nuts? How much does it weigh? How many carbs and how should we better control this seemingly uncontrollable habit?