Renewed Health Today

I have shared my belief in exercise to reduce Blood Glucose Levels quickly in social network forums. I know of no quicker way to lower blood glucose levels in a healthy way. These last three weeks verify for me that daily exercise is a very important component to my renewed health. Recently my last HbA1C was 5.5 and my daily finger prick tests were 105 in the morning and 85 in the early evening. Pretty good I thought. It been that way for a year.

Yep, I got lazy! Three weeks ago I went on a business followed by a week’s personal trip to New Mexico.

Well my discipline has been so good I thought I could slide a little. So I indulged a little on my business trip. More importantly even though I brought a pair of walking shoes I sat on my duff the whole week. I usually walk 4 miles a day to work rain, snow or hot sunshine. Well my daily finger prick numbers creeped up 20 points.  Not to worry I thought.

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My doctor’s first recommendation for a life style change was to exercise. My cholesterol was a little high. My muscle tone was gone. My blood pressure was slightly elevated. As a recently diagnosed diabetic I was a mess.

As a side effect of high glucose levels in my blood I has lost 42 pounds in less than 30 days. Unfortunately, most of that loss was muscle. Naturally, I did not have any energy. I was shuffling rather walking. Except for the last few years I had been a life time jogger and bicycle rider. My life style had been very active and aerobic in nature.

I was scared and understood I had to build my body up. I had to renew my health. But, I could not find any time in the day for an exercise program. Then I consider taking the bus and train to work. But, I was so weak I had to swing my feet to move the heavy walking shoes I bought to provide support for the mile and half walk from my house to the bus. From the train to my office was a half mile walk. So in a day I would walk 4.0 miles. So somehow I converted the fear of being diabetic and all it complications into a driving discipline.

Today I still take the bus and train to work nearly everyday possible; hot sun, rain or snow. Since I can dress appropriately, I have walked by choice in a few heavy snow storms. I no longer desire to drive to work. The difference is walk close to 5 miles per hour rather than the less than 2 miles per hour a year ago. As a life long jogger I understand that walking can be as aerobic as jogging without the related strain on your knees, especially at my age (now 59).

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If you have visited my blog site more than once you know I have not been a diabetic that long. I can remember at the beginning lost as I wondered what is a diabetic allowed to eat. I had vision of a boring life of very tasteless, unappealing meals that only added to the stigma that diabetes was a living death.

I could not have been more mis-informed. I found that I before I had developed diabetes that I actually was living a boring tasteless life with the meals that were not very creative and were not very healthy.

I found if I eat better meals moderately and snack in-between meals wiselyI enjoy a wonderful life of near gourmet healthy meals and a mental outlook of a long healthy life as a type II diabetic. If I were suddenly no longer diabetic I would continue with my improved diet because it would be the smartest life style I could live.

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