Ginger Vieira

Ginger Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999, and fibromyalgia since 2014. She is the author of Dealing with Diabetes Burnout & Emotional Eating with Diabetes & Your Diabetes Science Experiment. Ginger is the Editorial Director at DiabetesDaily, with a B.S. in Professional Writing and certifications in cognitive coaching, video blogging, record-setting competitive powerlifting, personal training, Ashtanga yoga, and motivational speaking. COMING in January 2017: Ginger’s 4th book written with co-author Jennifer Smith, CDE & RD, “Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes: Your Month-to-Month Guide to Blood Sugar Management.”

Articles by Ginger Vieira

“I woke up in the middle of the night—I thought a monster was going to crawl out of my stomach,” explains Asha Brown, fo…

Unless your blood sugars are well over 200 mg/dL for days on end, there's no reason a woman with type 1 diabetes will ha…

Christel Oerum is a co-founder of a diabetes and fitness website, TheFitBlog.com. Today, at age 38, Christel is a compet…

“I was seeing this doctor who would just do my blood-work, give me my A1C and send me on my way. I thought, ‘Why am I co…

The moment you feel judgment coming from your CDE is that same moment you might be tuning out, because that feeling of j…

Nearly 20 years ago, a teenage girl with type 1 diabetes read an article in a well-established diabetes publication abou…

The following is an excerpt from the book Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes by Ginger Vieira and Jennifer Smith, CDE…

For the past four years, unbeknownst to me, I’ve been gradually developing fibromyalgia—and it’s nothing like diabetes. …

Today, Darren is not only a renowned tattoo artist known for his work through TLC's "Miami Ink," he's also covered in ta…

I no longer view counting carbohydrates as a diabetic obligation, but instead a responsibility I take on to ensure I’m f…