As a diabetic, it’s critical that I take care of my body and be as healthy as possible. The odds are stacked against me so any little opportunity to eat right, exercise or pay special attention to my body could help me over the long run.
On the Facebook fan page, I have been talking about the BodyBugg that I picked up at the beginning of July. The BodyBugg is a calorie management system that combines a monitor (arm band) and online program that helps you to manage calories intake and calories burned. It’s truly amazing how accurate it is and I highly recommend it. It’s not cheap, but if used diligently, can help you lose weight or change your body composition.
As I track my calories, carbs, protein, etc., I have found how extremely difficult it is to estimate the nutrition contents in a salad. I have been eating salads more often and combine, chicken, lettuce (all different kinds and definitely not iceberg), peppers, carrots, light dressing, cranberries, walnuts, etc. into my salads. Combining all of these things makes for a difficult time in estimating carbs for my bolus and nutrition contents for the BodyBugg.
For something important to one’s diet, it is so frustrating how difficult it can be to manage for diabetes and calories. I have recently picked up a kitchen scale to help weight my food contents, which helps a bit. You try to go healthy with a salad and end up with a high or low blood sugar… sigh. It’s so much easier to crack open a box of frozen shit that has the obnoxious nutritional [lack of] facts listed on the side or back.
If you want to be utterly shocked, track your sodium intake for a few days. Just about everything that comes in a box is loaded with salt.
/rant
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