No matter how it is said, being told that your blood glucose is above normal is unwelcome news. It may be hard to keep listening because your thoughts become flooded by your emotions. My clients tell me, “I just couldn’t deal with this diagnosis, so I just didn’t do anything.” Sometimes the hardest part of diabetes …
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By Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed., RD., CDCES co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Recently, a client came to see me and our conversation centered on the concept of ‘Where Do I Invest My Energy?‘ (from chapter 21 of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes). As we …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, R.D, CDCES, Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes While the cause is not fully understood, Type 2 diabetes results from a series of problems. The first problem is insulin resistance. Just as it sounds, the fat, muscle and liver cells resist the effects of insulin. Insulin’s job …
By Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDCES, Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Why Do We Overeat? Why do people eat past comfortable fullness, eat when they are not hungry, or eat in a mindless way? Eating provides pleasure or a temporary distraction. For example, if you are feeling bored, …
By Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes So, you want to add variety to your diet. How can you do this if you have diabetes? Consider using the concept of “food swapping.” Regardless of the method used – Point System, Carbohydrate Exchange or Guiding …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Is it possible to have a superhero for a vegetable? A vegetable that is mild-mannered, unassuming and often overlooked in the crowd of produce, disguised not by a pair of unfashionable glasses but by its distance from …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes The liver has many jobs including preventing low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) by releasing glucose into the bloodstream. When a person drinks alcohol, it is processed in the liver and stops all other functions – including the release …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes The weather has turned in New England, filling the air with sunshine. These spring days seem to release the energy that has been stored all winter. Every time I look outside, I simply want to move. In Chapter …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes It happens when the seasons change. One after another, my clients say, “Well, I expected my blood sugars to be higher in the winter, but now that it is spring, I just thought they would go down.” We …
By Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Anne was newly diagnosed with diabetes when she came to her appointment. She sat in my office and began to tell me what she was looking for from the session. As I listened, I got a sense of …
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