AND THE WINNER IS.........

Good Morning All!!

Are you excited?  Today is the day that I announce the winner of the Premiere Bundle Pack of bars and shakes that Ethan at Level Life so generously offered to one of my readers!!

I've never done a free giveaway before so i googled how to pick a winner. 

RandomPicker seemed to be the simplest (and it was free!), so this morning I set up an account with them and entered every one of the commenters names into the generator.  I put them in in the same order that the comments came in.  (as i was doing this i was picturing and old fashioned bingo game with the numbers rolling around, or that huge rolling glass container from the show "Bowling for Dollars" where they always picked a name for some prize or other!)

And so without further ado (insert drumroll here).......................

The winner is.......................

Duenan Knute!

so Duenan, in order for you to receive your prize, you need to email me (my address is at the top right) with your complete mailing information, which I will pass on to Ethan at Level Life and he will get that sent out to you right away!

I want to thank everyone for your great comments!  I really appreciate you stopping by!

=)

New D-products and FREE GIVEAWAY!!!

Hi Everyone!

Again, it's been a while since I've been on here.  It seems that life is definitely in the way of blogging!

I've been working a lot, and with having a  3year old granddaughter here every day, I spend a lot of time playing outside (she's a snow loving girl!), and playing My Little Ponies indoors!

On top of that I'm a taxi service for my youngest daughter, driving her to and from work every day, I myself,  work most evenings and then there's painting. 

Suffice it to say, I am a busy lady.

Which brings me to my next point.

Ethan Lewis, founder of Level Life, has launched a new line of products.  I'm sure most of you have heard of Ethan and have either heard of or tried his Glucose Gels.  They are awesome!  Great tasting and do the job of raising low blood sugars fast.

I had the privilege of receiving a sample box of these new products to try out.  Well let me just tell you his new line of products are just fabulous!

Protein shakes and protein snack bars in delicious flavours!  The bars come in Double Chocolately Chip, Chocolately Crisp, Caramel Chocolatey Peanut(my favourite!) and Chocolately Peanut Crunch. Shake flavours are Homemade Vanilla, Milk Chocolate, Rich Caramel and Strawberry Creme(my favourite!).  The shakes have only 4g of net carbs and the bars too have only 4g of net carbs!

They make a great, healthy, low carb snack in between meals or they are a meal in themselves on the run!

If, like me, you'd like to lose a few pounds, these protein rich choices fill you up without loading you up with unnecessary carbs.

I really liked them.  But to put them to the test, I offered my husband his choice of flavour of one of each shake and bar.  And guess what?  As a non-diabetic he really enjoyed them too!

And now you can have a chance to enjoy these awesome treats too!  Ethan has very generously offered a FREE premiere bundle pack of bars and shakes (valued at $60) to one of my readers!   All you have to do is comment below, including the word Level in your comment.  You have until  midnight EST Wednesday February 19!  The winner will be announced on Thursday Feb 20.

But don't worry, if you don't win you can still place an order online and save!

Just go to the new Level Foods website and check it out!  Place your order using the promo code above.

You'll be glad you did!!

dear readers; i need your advice

today i have to order my pump supplies.  

i use an Animas Ping pump (which i love!), and i have tried several different infusion sets.

i had been using the Rapid D for quite some time, but they don't quite fit the pump properly and i have to trim a little off the sides of the part that attaches to the cartridge.  not a biggie, but still i began to wonder if that may cause a problem down the road. 

i then went to the Orbit MICRO steel set, but was told that they would  no longer be carrying these and would have to go to the Orbit Teflon.  me and teflon do not get along.  some sort of skin allergy(and the constant kinking) put me off.  i have tried using tegaderm between the set and my skin but i seem to be allergic to it too.  not all the time but every now and then.  enough so that i don't want to do that 'cause i end up with itchy blisters that leave an ugly scar.  i'm not vain in regards to the scarring, just the itching drives me crazy!

so i went back to the Contact Detach.  it's the one i started with originally when i first got my pump 3 years ago.  i originally changed sets because of money.  i needed more bang for my buck and with the Rapid D, i got that.  now that i have things a little (a lot) more fine tuned, i can order just enough for 3 months and it works perfect.  

however, i seem to have an allergy to the sticky stuff on the Contact D too!  again with the blistery, itchiness.  now before every set change, i wipe my skin down with an alcohol wipe, let it dry, spray the area with Benadryl Itch Spray, and let that dry.  insert set and voila!  no itchy blisters!

however, dear readers, i need your advice.

what type of infusion sets do you use with your Ping?  have you ever had these problems? if so, how did you solve the itchy blisters?  what about teflon allergies?  is there a set out there that i haven't tried that might help?  does anyone know of any other steel sets?

i'd appreciate any advice you may have to give.  

thanks =)