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Managing Diabetes

Five Years of Managing Type 2 Diabetes & More

July 26, 2010

I thought it would be interesting today to look back over our last five years of blogging to see what we posted each year on this date.  Never mind that I couldn’t come  up with something particularly newsworthy to talk about.  But it was interesting to see the pattern of our past years’ posts. On [...]

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Ode to the Potato Chip

July 19, 2010

The poor maligned potato chip.  It has such a bad reputation yet it’s a food that’s made a big difference in helping me eat healthy. Not just any old potato chip either.  It has to be Lay’s.  I have my standards.

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Redefining Normal, Then Becoming It

May 17, 2010

It’s interesting how 29 degrees is warm in February in Vermont, yet bone-chillingly cold in November or May…and bone-chillingly cold in Texas and other parts south any time of the year.  It’s all in what we get used to. The same idea can be applied to our behaviors around food. What do we think of [...]

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It Happened this Week: Mother’s Day Gifts, Playground Workout, and Diabetes Guilt

May 7, 2010

Flowers and candy are nice touches on Mother’s Day, but Forbes has a few ideas of “experience gifts” — ways that you and your mom can bond together — whether it’s taking a bike ride, a cooking class, or indulging in a spa day…together. It was around this time last year that Lauren Herskovic won [...]

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Diabetes and Dolphins

March 16, 2010

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Spinning Food Rules

February 2, 2010

I’ve been on a book-buying frenzy lately, picking up new and older books about healthy eating that I haven’t had a chance to review yet.  In coming weeks, I plan to present my non-diet two cents about what’s said in these books — particularly how they fit with the idea of intuitive eating and mindful [...]

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Meals, Snacks & Your Metabolic Rate

January 27, 2010

In class yesterday, one of our participants was wondering if eating five or six mini meals is better for her metabolism than eating three major meals. At Green Mountain we work with three main meals, but also give people the opportunity to add snacks throughout the day as needed because everyone is different in terms [...]

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Does Perceived Deprivation Cause You to Overeat?

January 13, 2010

Robyn Priebe, RD, Green Mountain’s director of nutrition, is back with some thoughts on deprivation.  It’s a subject we talk a lot about at Green Mountain and on A Weight Lifted.  Sometimes it takes a while to really understand the significant impact it can have on our eating. How will giving myself permission to eat [...]

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Respecting Your Uniqueness: Are Low-Carbohydrate Diets Right for You?

December 14, 2009

I’ve been reading quite a bit recently since my foray into the food as medicine world, and one of themes that keeps hitting home to me is how we are all biochemically unique.  Yet when many of us set out to clean up our eating, we often try to follow guidelines that may not work [...]

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Intuitive Eating Tip: Think of Your Stomach as a Blender

November 30, 2009

The day before Thanksgiving, I received an email that gleefully encouraged me to stuff myself the next day, as that was the American way.  It gave me pause, wondering how we came to this point.  Surely the Pilgrims didn’t approach their day of giving thanks with the idea that they’d walk away from the table [...]

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