May 10
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Lifestyle Changes to Treat Type 2 Diabetes!
When someone receives a diagnosis of diabetes, some of the first things that go through their mind are:
- That’s terrible!
- My life as it is right now is over!
- What am I going to tell my family?
- How could this happen?
- Why me?
- It looks like it’s time to start eating right and working out!
How many of these did you think?
The fact of the matter is that just by making lifestyle changes, you can impact the progression of your Type 2 Diabetes. You can even begin to reverse it!
What healthy lifestyle changes are you going to need to make?
The answer is that it depends on the lifestyle that you are living right now.
Check off any of the following that may be in your lifestyle:
- Smoking
- Consume alcohol
- Rarely exercise
- Eat junk food
- Don’t take time for rest and relaxation
- Frequently stressed out for long periods of time
- Do not get enough sleep
- No outlets for laughing and fun
- Frequent consumption of candy and sweets
- Irregular consumption of vegetables
- Dislike for whole grain products
- Skips breakfast
- Binge eating episodes
- Rarely drinks water during the day
- Loves carbonated drinks and high-caffeine drinks
These 15 habits are the worst ones to have and can aggravate your diabetes or prevent any progress you’re making otherwise and turn it southward.
Now count up any check marks and get your total. How many did you have?
Here’s my rating chart:
1 to 3 – You have great potential to reverse your Type 2 Diabetes. Just by focusing on cleaning up these bad habits, you can see immense progress in about 60 days.
4 to 7 – You are most likely someone that already has been working on improving your lifestyle. Congratulations on your work so far! Don’t give up! Keep going. Keep eliminating any lifestyle habits that interfere with your healing. You can do it!
8 to 12 – When someone has a score in this range, they generally have other emotional issues occurring in their life. Have you been faced with a death in the family or the death of a friend? Did your financial status change suddenly recently? Are you battling with issues with your children or issues at work? These types of emotional issues can drag anyone down. Make a commitment to either do something to improve them or eliminate these emotional issues.
Some people use medication; I believe that medication is a crutch and you eventually have to face the issue head on so why use it in the first place? The decision is ultimately yours, of course. But please remember that there are alternatives. The field of alternative medicine is full of them. For example, you can learn NLP or neuro-linguistic programming techniques. You can take flower remedies. You can work out emotional issues through your body by getting deep massage. All these may not seem like they are addressing an issue, but I know you will be amazed at how they really do work. Change the emotional issues you are having and you’ll be more apt to make other lifestyle changes.
13 to 15 – Oh boy! Your score is really reflective of a lifestyle full of stress, emotional issues, poor choices and bad habits. They say that the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time! So here’s my advice: Take a long 7-day vacation and come back refreshed and ready to start making changes. Then select two of the lifestyle habits to change and do both for the first 30 days. The reason why I say two, not one like most experts would, is that when you’re diabetic, your clock is ticking. Every day, every hour, every minute that your blood sugar is high means damage is being done to your body, even though you may not see it. By working on two of the habits each month, you can make significant progress in six months. You’ll look and feel better and everyone will notice how great you are looking and feeling!
So go for it. Choose to do something … take that vacation to Dolly Parton’s Dollywood, Disneyland, a big air show, the NASCAR races, Hot Air Balloon Festival, Jazz Festival, or whatever makes you happy. Just get relaxed and commit that you’ll do something about the habits as soon as you get back. Of course, I expect you to be thinking about how you’re going to do that so you start your plan on Day 1 back, no excuses. Remember, the clock is ticking and it has your name on it!
