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Lately my control has been great. A month ago, I can honestly say that it wasn't. When I blogged about my last endocronologist appointment, my diabetes was in the driver's seat. I was getting a two thumbs down rating from the critics. Well, if you have been staying up with my entries, you know that as of lately my schedule has changed drastically. My new daily routine is making a HUGE DIFFERENCE with my sugars (This is the part where I attempt to sound smart and provide you with some advice that you are probably already know.) I just want to say to you, if you are a diabetic, or know someone who is, and if you currently have an irregular daily schedule(like me when I was personal training with random hours), then I can tell you that you will GREATLY benefit from getting on a day-to-day routine. The only explanation that I can give you is that by doing the same thing every day you gain control of your body- you know when you are going to be low, when you need to eat something, when you need to rest, or take insulin etc.
You too can get on your own daily routine. For me, I have finally found the key to my diabetes control - doing physical labor for 9 hours a day seems to fit just right.
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November 21st, 2008
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10-11-2007 2:37 PM EDT by Andy Bell
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Andy Bell has lived with diabetes since the age of 14. He controls his type 1 diabetes by taking multiple daily injections. Andy is 28 years old now and despite his diabetes, still maintains a very active lifestyle. Andy works for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in the National Outreach Department. (Read More)
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personal trainer eh... i could use some pointers!
I totally agree with you. I too have discovered that when I keep the same routine 7 days a week it makes all the difference in the world in my readings. Whenever I decide I just want to sleep late on a Saturday morning, my blood sugar readings are wacky the rest of the day! So, I have a routine of checking my readings, eating my meals, and exercising while at work (get up from my computer chair, walk around briskly for 15 minutes off and on during the day) at the same times every single day. Since I am on insulin I do the same. I've been told not to live my life around a diabetes schedule, but that will never work for me. I make all my plans around my diabetes schedule and my family and friends understand this. Maybe other people can do differently, but after six years of Type 2 I know what my body responds to -- and that is to keep a rigid daily schedule. That's okay for me. I can live with that because most of the time I feel good and am able to work full time in a demanding 8 hr. job a day at age 66! It took me 4 years to find this out by trial and error, and I did go through the usual anger, grief, self pity, bad mood swings, want to give up at the end of each day for the first 2 years after my diagnosis. I just decided that diabetes was not going to ruin my life -- I just press on.