Learning is one of the biggest stumbling blocks we have with eating and diabetes.

By learning when you should eat, how much you need to eat and what to eat, you can take excellent care of yourself. When making food choices, choose wisely so that you can lose unnecessary weight, lower you risk of diabetes complications and even feel good from day to day.

Our goal with diabetes is to keep our blood glucose levels at healthy levels and to prevent damage to our body caused by those unhealthy levels of glucose, cholesterol and blood pressures. This can be maintained with good eating and physical activity habits along with proper medications if prescribed by your health care professional.

When taking diabetes medications, it is best to follow schedules for physical activity, meals and snacks. Some medications allow for flexible schedules while others do not. Discuss your diet and medication routines with your doctor.

The risk of developing heart disease is two times that in people who have diabetes than in people who do not. High cholesterol levels raise that risk. Lowering the amounts of saturated fats and cholesterol and maintaining optimal body weight can help lower cholesterol levels in the blood and reduce your risk of heart disease. Eating and Diabetes definitely go hand in hand here.

With you doctors help and with monitoring results:

• Determine how many times you need to eat per day
• Determine how many snacks you can eat per day
• Determine your physical activity levels required to maintain

Remember that conditions can change as time goes by, never stop monitoring and never stop working with your health care professionals. Keep up with your diet and diabetes plans and follow them with care.

It is your life and you should make it as comfortable and as productive as you can. You can always take medications, but there is no substitute for self care.

by Randy Wood
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Tips from Diabetes And Me… Always Move - Keep It Physical

Diabetics strive daily to live a life of normalcy. For many it is a very difficult and troubled road. For all, diabetes is most definitely a lifestyle altering disease.

There is consistent and ongoing research through doctors, clinics, researchers and special facilities diligently searching for cures to diabetes and ways to control and prevent the disease.

Lifestyle Center of America, a residential health center provides workshops through a revolutionary program that includes a preventive plant based diet, easy to follow physical activity program and other lifestyle choices to help overcome the effects that diabetes and other chronic diseases impose on our lives.

I have had the privilege of reading and actually using their cook book, “The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cook Book” created by Bonnie House, Diana Fleming, Ph.D., LDN, Linda Brinegar, Linda Kennedy, and Ian Blake Newman.

The research and work that has gone into this cook book along with its ease of use and information provided makes this book exceptionally valuable to those living with or touched by diabetes.

The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook is very easy to follow and use and is loaded with information so that diabetics know what to eat, why to eat it, how to prepare it, how to cook it and so much more.

The menus provided are an excellent guide for your day to day meal plan needs. You can follow the suggested plan or change it up based on your desires and tastes. They have even put together the list of equipment you need in your kitchen to prepare your meals. They have provided complete nutrition details to aid in optimizing your food intake to your needs. They have developed so many delicious and tasteful recipes covering every aspect of our normal eating habits from breakfast, lunch and dinner to deserts. The ingredients used in cooking are explained in detail and are easy for most people to get. And it tastes good!

As most people today are consuming so much fast food and easy to grab meals, living a fast and hurried lifestyle, it’s no wonder we are at the degraded levels of health that we are. Diets and lifestyle changes do not come that easy to most. The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook can help make that change in your life much less stressful. All you have to do is choose to do it.

According to new studies, eating a low-fat vegan diet may better help manage type 2 diabetes than traditional diets. A vegan diet is plant-based and consists of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes. It avoids animal products, such as meat and dairy. Such diets can also help people suffering from diabetes with their fight against other complications that seem to follow, like weight gain and high cholesterol leading to heart problems.

I recommend “The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook” and I am using it. I hope you will do the same for your life.

Always Eat Right – Always Be Prepared

By Randy Wood
www.diabetes-and-me.com

For Diet and Diabetes, discover the only cookbook of its kind. The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook from the gourmet kitchen at Lifestyle Center of America.
Diet and Diabetes go hand in hand. This is no secret to those touched by diabetes. Discover the real hope of controlling or stopping your diabetes, get your copy today.

If you are one of the millions living with diabetes, one of the essential elements in self care is a proper diabetic diet plan.

Many doctors, clinics, researchers and specialized facilities spend countless hours researching and creating diet plans for diabetes. Their goal is to strive to produce a healthy diet plan while also creating foods that are tasteful. Since so many live the Diet and Diabetes Lifestyle, we all know that tastless diet plans are quite miserable. Diet and diabetes does not have to be that way.

It is critical while fighting diabetes that one maintain an optimum weight and reduce blood cholesterol. it is also important to reduce saturated fats as much as possible and replace those fats with unsaturated or mono unsaturated fats. In maintaining diet and diabetes, a well maintained diet with nutritional foods helps the body process glucose as it should. This is simply a critical part in diabetes maintenance. Another important factor to remember with your diabetic diet is that you can also help control blood pressure by maintaining healthy lipid levels in your blood.

Many diabetics struggle their entire lives trying to maintain a healthy weight. Sticking to a diet for diabetes is one of the most challenging realities of living with diabetes. What you eat matters a great deal in controlling your diabetes. Eating the proper foods is very important in helping you maintain healthy glucose levels, so a daily balanced diabetic diet routine is essential. Always avoid those foods that make your blood glucose high.

With diet and diabetes, eat sensibly and enjoy.

Always Eat Right – Always Be Prepared

By Randy Wood
www.diabetes-and-me.com

For Diet and Diabetes, discover the only cookbook of its kind. The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook from the gourmet kitchen at Lifestyle Center of America.
Diet and Diabetes go hand in hand. This is no secret to those touched by diabetes. Discover the real hope of controlling or stopping your diabetes, get your copy today.

People with diabetes that like to get out, exercise and be active are always on the go. This is absolutely one of the best ways to help people without diabetes or with pre-diabetes prevent it. It is also a good way for those with diabetes to control it and help prevent complications.

The best advice I can give anyone, especially with diabetes, is to move. One of the worst things you can do to yourself is to be inactive.

Motion, Activity, Exercise and Diabetes – What to Know

Always consult your physician before making drastic changes in your lifestyle.

If an exercise program is new to you, or it has been a long period of time since you exercised on a regular basis, discuss this with your doctor and get blood sugar levels that you need to target, high or low during the duration of your active exercise sessions.

As a diabetic, you should get at least 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity at least most days of the week. This activity along with a healthy diet will help to keep your weight down, lower your blood sugar levels and help lower your risk of heart problems.

Doctors will generally recommend aerobic type exercises for diabetics. Aerobic exercise makes you breathe deeply and also makes your heart work harder.

Some good examples of aerobic exercise are:
walking
jogging
aerobic dance
bicycling

Whatever type of exercise you choose, always warm up for 5 to 10 minutes first and cool down when you are done. A good way to warm up is to do gentle walking or stretching. You should always stretch for 5 to 10 minutes before and after your exercise sessions.

As exercise tends to lower your blood sugar level, it is always a good idea to check your levels before you start and when you get done. If you are exercising for extended periods, check you blood sugar levels every 30 minutes or so. Hyperglycemia is low blood sugar and is dangerous. If your sugar levels are to low, wait until they are at a normal level before you start. If you begin to feel changes in your heartbeat, sudden sweat, shaky, anxious or sudden hunger, you blood sugar level is most likely dropping to low. Stop exercising and follow the plan you and your doctor made for combating hyperglycemia. Keep a snack handy!

Always wear shoes that fit properly. Do every thing you can to prevent sores and/or blisters on your feet. As diabetics tend to heal slowly, infections can easily set in.

Drink plenty of fluids before, during and after your exercise sessions. Dehydration can affect your blood sugar levels.

Always Move – Always Be Prepared

By Randy Wood
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Here is the exceprt:
“Been testing consistently at 200-250 for last month. I’m feeling ok but should I go anyways. I don’t have insurance but maybe I need to go anyways. Suggestions?”

As always, you should follow what your doctor tells you to do, and a good doctor will have told you what to look for and what to consider an issue or an indicator that you may need help.

Desirable Blood glucose levels should be set for you by your doctor. A standard rule of thumb is listed below. But Please see your doctor to make yours personal based on your needs.

Desirable blood glucose levels?

Everyone has some glucose in their blood. People who don’t have diabetes have a normal range of about 70 to 120. Blood glucose levels will go up after eating but return to the normal range 1 to 2 hours later.

Always ask your doctor when you should check your blood glucose with a meter. Find out whether the targets listed below are best for you or not. Then you and your doctor can set your personal targets.

BGL (blood glucose targets) for most people with diabetes:
Before meals should range between 90 to 130 and 1 to 2 hours after the start of a meal should be less than 180.

Find out what your target BGL’s should be, document them and know them.

My suggestion to anyone with continuous blood glucose level numbers outside of your care teams designated numbers, GO see your doctor!

Randy Wood

www.diabetes-and-me.com

Read more: Diabetes And Me… Life With Purpose!.

I hear it said often - I have never been healthier since I got diabetes.

When you first hear those words from your doctor, you're not quite sure what to think or how to feel. You definitely don't know what to do. That initial feeling of being alone and confused sets in right away. Life just stopped! I know those feelings because I have been there.

Know this:

LIFE DON'T STOP. You have just gone from one Lifestyle to another.

Your doctor just gave you some prescriptions, some information, some phone numbers and set up some appointments. It is time to start learning how to live again. So, go ahead and do as your doctor says. Also, read the information and attend the suggested classes. You will be glad you did.

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases among so many people in our society. Diabetes brings on extreme life style changes and the complications can be life changing and even life threatening at times. Along with these changes in your lifestyle as well as complications, if and when they arise, can come anxiety and depression. You are not alone. You have family, friends and a whole society by your side. They do love you and can be very supportive to you.

There are many resources for you and those in your life affected by your condition. You should do some investigating into diabetes once you have been diagnosed, because you must know how to take care of your self
and your needs for the rest of your life. Here are some relevant categories that belong to you now.

Healthy Eating, Healthy Activity, Monitoring, Taking Medications, Problem Solving, Reducing Risks, Healthy Mind

Live it, Love it, Learn it. You owe it to yourself and those around you. Remember, the number one person that can take care of you and make you happy is YOU.

by Randy Wood
Diabetes-And-Me