Battling Diabetes With Diet and Exercise

Information is vital

A a person who has lived with Diabetes for 10 years I have experience with managing this condition. When I was first diagnosed I also hated the idea of tracking my glucose levels and spent a couple of years in denial. Once I developed Kidney disease I woike up. The truth is if you are a diabetic and not managing your levels you have a silent killer on your hands. This is not a condition you can see a Dr. once a year on and ignore. You can prevent damage but it is almost impossible to reverse. Take your readings and manage your diabetes.

Battling Diabetes with diet and exercise

I totally agree with Walter. Having just been diagnoses with Type 2 diabetes, I was sent home with blood testing apparatus, charts and diagrams, and realized I simply wasn't going that route. Rejected the testing, and have focused on diet and exercise. It will be a long haul, but I know I would never have stayed with all the "finger pricking".

It's obvious what we are all dealing with is a life style change...and we can all do that if we choose.

Thanks, Walter.

Avoiding information overload newly diagnosed - focus on waistline

What has been found is that health care advisors are more comfortable giving diabetics dietary and medication advice, and limited low level exercise advice, as opposed to an strongly targeted food plan and intensive exercise plan.

It's the combination of those that has brought my type 2 diabetes under control after being diagnosed 8 years ago. I wasted about 2 years in denial, then took a few to get organized, and then really became disciplined in the food and especially the exercise component, meaning undertaking both aerobic and resistance training. I believe that the muscular development has played a big role in improving my symptoms, and as a 60 year old it has helped my whole capacity to enjoy a good lifestyle.

When I was newly diagnosed I suffered from information overload, and that's especially easy to do by googling "diabetes". When I did that I literally nearly fainted and fell from my chair, and that led to a period of closing my mind and denial.

That's I recommend to others that they don't get into information overload, don't pick up up all the pamphlets about vegen diets and measuring food quantities, but do change their attitude to food and throw out the obvious bad things that they are eating, and focus on reducing their waistline as the driving goal and measure by which they judge the information that they need and apply in their new lifestyle.

If they judge incoming information, and all their actions in eating and exercising, in relation to reducing their waistline to their height/2 then they will be off to a great start to getting their new diabetic lifestyle in order.

After they get set and going and comfortable on that path, with that one goal, they will start to be able to absorb new information and to place it in context.

It's where to start that people often find hardest. I learnt to focus on waistline as the centerpiece of my food plan and exercise plan and it has paid really good results.

I still have diabetes, and some symptoms, but my blood readings in most respects are better than most of my age group.

Walter Adamson

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