Success With Type 2 Diabetes - Nov.
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I do have a big healthy breakfast. I do a combination of complex carbohydrates, fruits, and one or two hard-boiled eggs. And I find I don't get big glucose spikes because I wear a continuous glucose monitor, and it's always there to tell me where my glucose is. You don't treat diabetes as an abstraction. Everybody reacts to different foods differently. And so a continuous glucose monitor gives you the opportunity and the option to see how a different food affects you.
I work out every morning after breakfast, and I've focused on all of these core exercises and noticed immediately probably a 20% difference in my blood sugar levels. At all times, especially when I was getting up in the morning, I had numbers like-- 125 used to be good for me, I'd wake up and it would be 105. It gives me, like, a real impetus like, I'm going to go to the gym today because I know my numbers are going to go lower or at least stay where they are and those are where they haven't been in years. So at 65 years old, that makes me feel really good about myself.
My philosophy is to visit the doctor or at least get a blood test. I get them four times a year. And they change significantly. Diabetes is something that changes and evolves so you have to live with it daily and it's a daily battle. And you're not going to win every battle, you just have to win the war. I love it when I'm able to speak to other diabetics and learn from them or more especially mentor others. Because I always look back and say, I wish 15 years ago when I was diagnosed, I had somebody to help me the way I've helped others.
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I started gaining weight slowly and was in really severe denial about it. I'd look in the mirror, and I really didn't see it. It was over a period of years, so let's say 12 to 15 pounds a year for four years and suddenly, I was obese. There was an old expression I landed to, have breakfast like a king, lunch like a sultan, and dinner like a pauper. I do have a big healthy breakfast. I do a combination of complex carbohydrates, fruits, and one or two hard-boiled eggs. And I find I don't get big glucose spikes because I wear a continuous glucose monitor, and it's always there to tell me where my glucose is. You don't treat diabetes as an abstraction. Everybody reacts to different foods differently. And so a continuous glucose monitor gives you the opportunity and the option to see how a different food affects you.
I work out every morning after breakfast, and I've focused on all of these core exercises and noticed immediately probably a 20% difference in my blood sugar levels. At all times, especially when I was getting up in the morning, I had numbers like-- 125 used to be good for me, I'd wake up and it would be 105. It gives me, like, a real impetus like, I'm going to go to the gym today because I know my numbers are going to go lower or at least stay where they are and those are where they haven't been in years. So at 65 years old, that makes me feel really good about myself.
My philosophy is to visit the doctor or at least get a blood test. I get them four times a year. And they change significantly. Diabetes is something that changes and evolves so you have to live with it daily and it's a daily battle. And you're not going to win every battle, you just have to win the war. I love it when I'm able to speak to other diabetics and learn from them or more especially mentor others. Because I always look back and say, I wish 15 years ago when I was diagnosed, I had somebody to help me the way I've helped others.
