So, you'd like to get back to the blood glucose normal range?
Good for you. You've probably heard the horror stories about diabetes - blindness, kidney failure, amputation. That was pretty common years ago. Today, you have far more control over your destiny, if you choose to.
Here are some key tips:
1. Get off the fence about diabetes.
Don't buy into "borderline diabetes". it doesn't help to think of diabetes as a "kind of" thing. That's a way for you to let your blood glucose stay too high for too long, and that's an invitation to all the complications you don't want to think about.
If you're hemoglobin A1c is high (go get it checked). You've got diabetes. If you're outside the blood glucose normal range, in other words, if your fasting blood glucose level is 126 mg/dl or higher, you've got diabetes. If your blood glucose is over 200 mg/dl after eating on at least two occasions you have it.
2. Next, take action - don't get scared, get movin'.
If you're diabetic, start making the small changes that can add up over time to change your life.
If you're readings aren't that high, but you think you're headed there - take action any way. All the recommendations you'll get will only make you healthier and give you a more active lifestyle - which is why you want to avoid diabetes anyway.
3. There are two general things you should do right now to get back to your blood glucose normal range.
First, calculate the number of calories you should be eating to stay at your ideal weight (not the weight you're at today). Eat that many and no more, every day.
Second, add 5,000 steps to your day, every day. You'll need those extra steps to burn off sugar (and to lose weight if you calculated that your ideal weight is lower than where you are now).
Good for you. You've probably heard the horror stories about diabetes - blindness, kidney failure, amputation. That was pretty common years ago. Today, you have far more control over your destiny, if you choose to.
Here are some key tips:
1. Get off the fence about diabetes.
Don't buy into "borderline diabetes". it doesn't help to think of diabetes as a "kind of" thing. That's a way for you to let your blood glucose stay too high for too long, and that's an invitation to all the complications you don't want to think about.
If you're hemoglobin A1c is high (go get it checked). You've got diabetes. If you're outside the blood glucose normal range, in other words, if your fasting blood glucose level is 126 mg/dl or higher, you've got diabetes. If your blood glucose is over 200 mg/dl after eating on at least two occasions you have it.
2. Next, take action - don't get scared, get movin'.
If you're diabetic, start making the small changes that can add up over time to change your life.
If you're readings aren't that high, but you think you're headed there - take action any way. All the recommendations you'll get will only make you healthier and give you a more active lifestyle - which is why you want to avoid diabetes anyway.
3. There are two general things you should do right now to get back to your blood glucose normal range.
First, calculate the number of calories you should be eating to stay at your ideal weight (not the weight you're at today). Eat that many and no more, every day.
Second, add 5,000 steps to your day, every day. You'll need those extra steps to burn off sugar (and to lose weight if you calculated that your ideal weight is lower than where you are now).
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