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Diabetes Health Editor wants your input on New Year's Resolutions & Valentine's Day

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Diabetes Health Editor
Joined Jan 1, 2008

We’d like to hear about your New Year’s resolutions and Valentine’s Day experiences.

What methods have worked for you in keeping your New Year’s resolutions?

Do you have any suggestions for spending a diabetes-friendly V-Day?

Any special ways of celebrating holidays at the start of the year?

We love heartfelt comments from our readers. We’ll publish the ones that inform and inspire.

Thanks,

Kristin Lund
Managing Editor

Posted on November 18, 2008 16:14
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Ellen Resnick
Joined Sep 19, 2008
As a psychotherapist and health educator, my New Year's and Valentine's resolution is to keep my own work/life in balance and to provide hope to my patients that taking care of their diabetes can be done through mindfulness and thoughtful decision making. I run a program called Center for Thoughtful Weight Loss, www.thoughtfulweightloss.com. It incorporates Cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, sound nutritional counseling and a fitness component tailored to each person's needs. My husband has type 2 DM and together, we strive to keep our lives in balance, including his blood sugars, through the tenets of this program. We will pre-plan our holiday celebrations to include some extra calories, but we will also be mindful about getting extra exercise on these days. We know that our bodies can't tell the difference between calories consumed on holidays or other days--they all add up. We wish you a happy and thoughtful holdiay season. Ellen Resnick, LCSW
Posted on December 2, 2008 20:34
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On Feb 14, 2005 was a big day for my family and me. Juet a few days before i found out that I was in trouble. They told me I was having problems with my heart and needed to go into the hospital. I was in Tampa, Fl and I lived in Victoria, TX. and wanted to be home with my family. I was told I could go, but could not drive. I was in luck because my oldest son was with me. When I went in to the hoepital. They said that I was a lucky man. I could have not been here and should have the operation in FL. I'm hewre by the grace of God. Each year is always a season joy. God bless one and all. Rodger Branson Orwell, OH
Diabetes Health Editor posted:

We’d like to hear about your New Year’s resolutions and Valentine’s Day experiences.

What methods have worked for you in keeping your New Year’s resolutions?

Do you have any suggestions for spending a diabetes-friendly V-Day?

Any special ways of celebrating holidays at the start of the year?

We love heartfelt comments from our readers. We’ll publish the ones that inform and inspire.

Thanks,

Kristin Lund
Managing Editor

Posted on December 9, 2008 9:43
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My New Years Resolution is to take my multivitamin and walk everyday. My sister told me about one especially for diabetics and it has extra potency of the important vitamins for people like us. I always had trouble swallowing those big @#$ pills, but these are small and shaped long and thin so they go down easy. For anyone else having trouble with swallowing, its in a green and yellow box in the diabetes section of Walgreens and Walmart too! Can't recall the name (I'm at work) I walk right after I take the vitamin - a 20 minute fast walk every day (7 songs on my IPOD), and its probably my imagination but the vitamin seems to give me more energy to get this done. Maybe its just that I made it a habit. Either way, its working for me. I've only been doing this for about 4 weeks now, but my resolution is to keep it up all year. When the weather is bad, my walk will be in the mall.
Posted on December 9, 2008 11:47
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Pauline Barrett
Joined Jan 1, 2008

I shall celebrate the New Year by volunteering in Oregon's successful Whale Watch program that focusses on the migration of the gray whale's migration between Alaska and Baja, Mexico.  Being outdoors is a fresh reminder to jump-lick my resolution to get more outdoor exercise to maintain my weightloss of 50 pounds (over 5 years) and 5.5 A1c.  For Valentine's Day we will be attending a wedding celebration for my niece where we'll be surrounded by the extended family, all of whom have provided me great support over the years.  Fortunately I have developed good party habits of being able to taste the buffet foods without pigging out on the less desirable choices to maintain good glycemic control.  I recently had a calcium count to detect the amount of plaque in my heart, and as the result was "zero" for a person of my age, what I have been doing so far must be working!

Posted on December 16, 2008 8:38
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Uzma Naz
Joined Dec 16, 2008

I don't have any New Year's Resolutions regarding Diabetes on my own, but I'd like to see the world of Diabetes come front and center in the next year.  I see people selling whatchamacallits for Breast Cancer awareness, but there is still little consciousness raising w. respect to Type I Diabetes.  I especially don't think having one Diabetes month a year is enough.  I'd like to see Diabetes awareness and knowledge perpetuation year-round. . . but to do something about this requires more of a group resolve rather than an individual resolution.

Posted on December 16, 2008 12:44
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