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Category Archives: Inspiration
Review: Emotional Eating with Diabetes
When I think about a book on diabetes and emotional eating, I think of something like a college textbook filled with hundreds of pages of psychological mumbo-jumbo and medical terms that I would need a PhD in order to understand. … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Inspiration, Life, Photos, Reviews, Shout outs
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Spare a Rose, Save a Child
Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and we, the Diabetes Online Community, have an opportunity to use this occasion to help the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child program. The idea behind “Spare a Rose, Save a Child” is simple. … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Diabetes, Inspiration, Life, Photos, Shout outs
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Diabetes Goes Mobile
Today is the 4th Annual Diabetes Art Day and I’m proud to be able to participate in and support this awesome initiative started by my friend Lee Ann Thill. Over the last few years, my entries for this event have … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Diabetes Art, Diabetes Art Day, Inspiration, Life, Photos
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Wordless Wednesday: First Workout of 2013
2.74 miles in 65 minutes = 466 calories burned.
Posted in Diabetes, Exercise, Health, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Photos, Wordless Wednesday
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I Don’t Regret A Mile
The words below are from the recitation part of a song called “I Don’t Regret A Mile“. The song was written by the late Howard Goodman, a gospel singer. It talks of things that could have made him give up, … Continue reading
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Celebrating 4 Years of Life
Today is my 4th Diaversary. Happy Diaversary to Me! That’s 4 years of LIVING with type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure. Am I really happy to be living with D and CHF? Well, no. Do I hate the diseases … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Health, Heart, Inspiration, Lessons Learned, Life
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Peace In The Eye Of The Storm
While looking through an old blog that I wrote while in college, I came across this poem that I had posted. There were a lot of things going on in the world, and in my life personally, and this seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Lessons Learned, Life
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Getting to know Matthew Deets
Through my interactions with the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) on Twitter and other social media outlets over the last 3 years and 11 months, I’ve had the privilege of meeting some really amazing people. One such person is my good … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Diabetes Awareness Month, Inspiration, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Life, Photos, Shout outs
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The Importance of Listening – D Blessings Week Day 1
Today is the first day of Diabetes Blessings Week – a week in which we count the blessings that have come to our lives because of diabetes. One of the many things of which living with type 2 diabetes and … Continue reading
Giving the gym another shot
Recently I tweeted that I had joined a gym. And there have been a few tweets since indicating that I was either en route to the gym or had just left. What that initial tweet should have said, though, was … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Diabetes Awareness Month, Exercise, Health, Heart, Inspiration, Lessons Learned, Life, Mental Health, Popular, Shout outs
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My Diabetic Heart 