My blog has moved to it’s new address http://www.landileigh.com

I hope you’ll follow me there, for my regular blog, and for all info on the Biggest Loser ‘D’ Style!

Introducing all of the Biggest Loser Contestants!!

This week’s challenge…

WHAT IS YOUR WORST FOOD IN YOUR PANTRY? AND WHY?  Can’t wait to hear the answers!

BMI Categories:
Underweight = <18.5
Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

Amy Tenderich over at DiabetesMine.combring you “NEW YEAR, NEW YOU – A DIABETES MAKEOVER CONTEST.” Insulite Labs has created a brand-new program called Insulite Diabetes Advanced Management System and its goal is to help PWDs with their diet and exercise while also providing a full support network. I encourage everyone in the BL-ds to enter!

Hey everyone!

Welcome to Week #1 of the Biggest Loser ‘D’ Style! Now is the time to put the fork down, and get the feet a movin’! Remember it is up to you to do this, we’ll be here for the support whenever you need it!

I set up a new domain with a blog set aside just for the BL-ds! so we’ll all be here: http://www.landileigh.com

Week #1 Challenge: Send via email “What is the worst food in your pantry? Why is it the worst food?”

Remember to check in weekly (Sunday evening) with the challenge and your weight on Sunday.

For every week of the 12-16 week challenge (we’ll follow the show schedule) that you check in with that week’s challenge and submit your weight, your name will go into a hat for fabulous prizes! Rickina from Stick Me Designs, and Amy Tenderich from Diabetes Mine are donating prizes to encourage all of us to be accountable.

Don’t forget support group chat Sundays at 5:00pm pacific – 8:00pm eastern HERE: http://diabetestalkfest.com/chat.html

Keep an eye on our new page, because it is changing rapidly! http://www.landileigh.com
GOOD LUCK!

landileigh

So I talked about starting a “Biggest Loser” D-Style challenge for myself in my last post. In response, I had two of my d-friends ask if they could join in also. I thought to myself, what a great idea!  Let’s open this up to the Diabetes Online Community and see who else might want to join in!

Now let me start this out, this IS NOT a diet. We’re all adults here, we’ve probably been on tons of diets. This is not an exercise plan. I’m not a doctor or a trainer. This is a support group. Here to encourage and push and guide. We all know what we need to do. We’ve been on Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, SlimFast, a thousand diets. But what we lack is motivation and support. THAT IS WHAT THIS IS!

The Biggest Loser – “D” Style is a way to see your progress in black and white. To hold yourself accountable by having it published. No yelling, no “oh you’ve been bad”, just encouragement! No prizes, i think losing weight and getting healthy is prize in itself. We each plan on doing our own diets and starting our own exercise plans. I’m going to be replacing meals with Glucerna (easily digestible for my gastro) and using my Wii Fit and walking.

So if this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of (we will have cool Biggest Loser graphics for your blog!), then just send me an email with your height/weight/age and a front facing face shot of you to landileigh2 at gmail dot com, and we’ll add you in! Hope we have lots more participants!

After seeing this picture:

that was taken today when I stopped off to take a pic for LeeAnn after a conversation about Krispy Kreme, I realized something needed to be done. Then I watched the show The Biggest Loser and knew… yep… something needed to be done.

So I am starting this new year with a goal. to lose weight. not for my husband or daughter. for me. to better my diabetes, my kidneys, my heart, myself.

and here will be my progress:

medGadget – the internet journal of emerging medical technologies has recently nominated one of our very own Diabetes Online Community (the Diabetes OC) members Kerri Morrone Sparling of sixuntilme.com as one of The 2008 Medical Weblog Awards Sponsored by Epocrates: Best Patient’s Weblog Category. Please vote for her blog and show everyone that the diabetes community is strong and supports it’s members!

To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled “landileigh’s little world” (the “Work”) in the preparation of a work derived there from. I have reserved all rights in the Work, first published in October 2007, [and have registered copyright therein]. Your work entitled diabetes1.org at is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis.

As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for http://diabetes1.org/Resources/landileighs_little_world nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.

I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by January 19, 2009 indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall take further action against you.

Very truly yours,

Landileigh Nelson

Today is a celebration for all of my D-friends. The birthday of the man (Sir Frederick Banting of Canada) who discovered the properties of insulin. A day held in reverencance by the United Nations. To bring about Diabetes Awareness of the disease that has affected millions.

Problem is this… all i can think about today is if awareness brings about a cure for the Type 1’s and Type 2’s, will I be the only one left with diabetes after all my friends are cured? My diabetes cannot be cured. Some day I hope to have a double transplant (kidney/pancreas). It is the only way I would no longer have diabetes.

The first successful pancreas transplant happened in 1966 by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly in Minnesota. The prognosis after pancreas transplantation is very good. Over the recent years, long-term success has improved and risks have decreased. One year after transplantation more than 95% of all patients are still alive and 80-85% of all pancreases are still functional. After transplantation patients need lifelong immunosuppression. Immunosuppression increases the risk for a number of different kinds of infection and cancer. This scares me also. But the chance for a longer life, is too great to pass up. 

Please have everyone you know sign their organ donation cards. Some day, they may save a dear friend or family member’s life. And donate for a cure for Diabetes to your favorite Diabetes Foundation, because I want us ALL to have long happy lives.

D-Blog Day was started 4 years ago today by Gina Capone. I didn’t have diabetes 4 years ago, had no idea what a blog really was, or a Diabetes Online Community.

Gina went to the JDRF Promise Ball last night, and just was at the DRI Diabetes 2.0 conference. She is a champion for all of us that have diabetes. She has taken over the D-OC to make it a better place for all of us diabetes bloggers. She makes sure that important people in the world of diabetes are speakers for her chats. She started the CGMS Anti-Denial petition, so that others with insurance issues had a chance to get this technology. She’s a lot of woman in a little package.

I didn’t know Gina back when she started D-Blog Day in 2005, but I know Gina now. Gina is one of my best friends. Not just online, but offline. She is usually the first person I talk to in the morning, and the last person I talk to at night. We often say we are cousins, as our life’s histories parallel one another’s. She is Half-Italian/Half-Sicilian, I am Half-Italian/Half-German. The men in her family are all plasterers, and my husband and his father are plasterers. We have similar senses of humors and can both laugh and cry at the same things. Whenever each of us has something important to share with someone, we are reaching out to one another. Stretched across this United States, we still connect on a different level that is beyond diabetes, beyond the internet, beyond the telephone. Noone can make me smile like she does. 

So Gina Capone, thank you. I love you with all my heart.