I was at a soccer tournament today and noticed a coach who was going off on his kids. (He is a type 1 on a pump) I thought to myself..”Oh man, I hope he’s not low.”  I always try to make sure I am alright during coaching stints so as not to get easily frustrated and take it out on the kids….I know I have run into that before, and I always regret any times I may have been a “grumpy diabetic” with my kids.

If you are a diabetic coach…...Stay in the zone…Little kiddies are counting on you.

Keep going…..Peace,   Bob

Recently my book The Joy of Diabetes was reviewed by Amy Tenderich at www.diabetesmine.com .

I was totally blown away when she stated “This little book, with the seemingly contradicting title, turns out to be one of my very favorite books ever written on diabetes”. 

Holy Cow!  (old man response …i know)   I am honored to receive such a review…

I hope that all who are in their diabetic walk choose to jump up every morning and decide to “live out loud”.

Every day holds new adventures around every corner. I hope you choose to go out and find them!

Keep Going…......Peace, Bob

Well, I think I have finally almost got this figured out. I have recently cut my morning carb count in half when eating breakfast and have had very positive results.

I was use to eating a bowl of cereal (I tried about 15 different unsweetened types) and would typically go to work and a few hours later , my bg’s would be 180-240. I would bolus to cover as I started to see it rise.(ya gotta love CGMS) and would be frustrated to know that I was damaging my body.

A few hours later would come the inevitable crash as my insulin would kick in and overcome the highs.

I realized there has to be a better way and have swapped to a low carb, high fiber cereal. It doesn’ taste too bad to me.(of course my teens say it has the taste and texture of cardboard). My counts went from around 40 carbs to around 20 carbs.   So far, so good….......Ah the joys of the dawn phenomenon(dawn effect)

Keep Going…......Peace, Bob 

Dear friends at SugarStats..I am honored to be included in your list of authors. I will do my best to assist the readers to claim their diabetes and to “Help you take this thing by the horns and wrestle it to the ground”.

I have always tried to substitute the word “and” for ”or”. It allows me to do two things or more and not just one. I can do this “or” that becomes  I can do this “and” that.

No limits, No worries…....do them both  I can be diabetic “or” Healthy, becomes I can be diabetic “and” Healthy.    

Keep Going…..Peace,   Bob

We’d like to welcome Bob Hawkinson of JoyofDiabetes.com as the newest writer for the SugarStats.com Blog. Bob has had to deal with and manage diabetes on a daily basis for 45 years and takes a pro-active approach to his diabetes management.

Bob takes a positive outlook on it all and it reflects refreshingly in his writing style. We welcome him to the blog and look forward to his future contributions to educate, inspire and help inform diabetics and non-diabetics alike world-wide.

Be sure to check out his book: “The Joy of Diabetes”.

Here is a little bit more about Bob:

“Bob’s account of his life with diabetes is a testimony to the truth that people with this chronic illness can lead very joyful, fulfilling lives. He focuses primarily on his accomplishments in a way that is uplifting to the reader.

At the same time he acknowledges that he must constantly prepare himself to manage his diabetes in whatever direction his life’s journey takes him. Bob demonstrates that people with diabetes can pursue whatever they want as long as preparation is made to handle the special needs of their blood sugar in that circumstance. By taking a pro-active approach to the management of his diabetes, he is a positive example for diabetics and all the people who love them. He stays one step ahead of his blood sugar through constant trial and error. At times it is a struggle but a fight well worth fighting. In his own words, “the management of diabetes is a marathon, not a sprint.”

Join the SugarStats Community Blog

Do you also have a passion for better diabetes management, educating/informing people and would also like to contribute to the SugarStats community blog?

Feel free to contact us at info@sugarstats.com and send us some examples of your writing, we’d love to talk to you.

We’ll be at the Health 2.0 Conference on September 20th in San Fran, if you’re also going we’d love to meet you.

It will definitely be a jam-packed day, there is plenty on the agenda. If you’ll be at the conference or in the area and would like to get together feel free to drop an email to: info@sugarstats.com

Twitter Integration

We’re happy to announce Twitter.com integration with SugarStats! Now you can quickly add sugar and med entries via Twitter direct message to our ss1 Twitter account.

The great thing about this is now you also have the ability to choose from the monstrous array of 3rd party twitter apps on top of Web, IM, SMS for inputting entries into SugarStats.

Now you can just send a Twitter message like this:

Then an entry of 108 goes directly into your SugarStats account at the date and time of the message; Comment optional.

If you want to share your sugar info with your Twitter circle you can enable the option within SugarStats to have new entries posted to your Twitter account. This is just the beginning and we’ll be improving it as time goes on, including adding events/tags.

For all the details and instructions check out our Twitter input help page

What is Twitter?

Twitter.com is the wildly popular micro-blogging service which allows people to answer one question very easily: “What are you doing?” in less then 140 characters. It is a great way to keep in contact with friends, family and also find out what other people are up to via Web, IM, SMS and Desktop applications.

For more info on Twitter go to Twitter.com and Twitter.com/faq

We’ll be rolling out a few small features soon. Here are a few notables:

• Added calendar based date selection in the sidebar
• Today and Yesterday links will always take you there based on your timezone
• Messaging has been slightly tweaked for quicker reading and replying
• Added carb averages per meal per day for premium users
• More intuitive date labeling for multi-day statistics
• dozens of other small bug fixes

Twitter.com and SugarStats.com Integration!

Another cool thing is Twitter integration, now you can input sugar and med entries directly from Twitter via the twitter website, SMS, IM, within Firefox and all the other great 3rd party Twitter utilities. Find the full details on our Twitter help page.

Email Input Format Modification

An important thing to mention is we’ve standardized the input format quite a bit so now inputting via Twitter and Email takes exactly the same format. Before you had a separate med email you had to specifically send mail to, now you just have one but you have to slightly modify the format of the entry.

Learn more on our email Input help page