"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
Author: Jacquie
Continue practicing the Five Essential Habits, Portion Control, Eating to Your Meter, Incorporating Intermittent Fasting, and Reducing Stress every day. Are you getting adequate sleep? How is sleep related to diabetes? How long should I sleep? Is it possible to sleep too long? For the answers to these questions and more, please read "Get Adequate … Continue reading Get Adequate Sleep
Continue practicing the Five Essential Habits, Portion Control, Eating to Your Meter, and Incorporating Intermittent Fasting every day! No doubt, however, that you may still be seeing blood sugars (and thus insulin levels) higher than you would like. The number one non-food cause of high blood sugar is high stress! This has been especially true … Continue reading Reduce Stress
Continue practicing the Five Essential Habits, Portion Control, and Eating to Your Meter every day! Now let's explore intermittent fasting. The most simplistic explanation of intermittent fasting is nothing (except water) between supper and breakfast. No bedtime snacking! Goals/Objectives: To learn how to practice intermittent fasting and incorporate it into your life. To find the … Continue reading Incorporate Intermittent Fasting
Continue to practice the Five Essential Habits and Portion Control every day. This week, add "eating to your meter" (if you are not doing it already). Goals/Objectives: To learn how to “eat to your meter.” Develop a “safe foods” list based on the results of “eating to your meter.” What does it mean to "eat to your … Continue reading Eat to Your Meter
Goals/Objectives: To learn how to practice portion control. Time Frame: To implement portion control at every meal/snack of every day. Now that you have established some essential habits for diabetics—essential no matter what dietary lifestyle or approach to diabetes management you take—let’s refine it even more by practicing portion control, also an essential for all diabetics, regardless of … Continue reading Practice Portion Control
This week's blog will refer you to two articles and one video that can help you in deciding how you should eat for your best diabetic health. And, while you are deciding, be sure to continuing practicing the Five Essential Habits, the foundation of your success in controlling, reversing, or preventing diabetes. The first article, … Continue reading What Can I Eat?
Goal/objective: To identify your dietary approach to managing your diabetes, within your chosen dietary lifestyle. Time frame: Ongoing. With the caveat that you can adjust/change your dietary approach at any time. For all of us—type 1 and type 2 diabetics, “pre-diabetics,” ex-diabetics, recovering diabetics—whatever we choose to call ourselves, we can choose to follow a specific dietary approach to … Continue reading Identify Your Dietary Approach to Diabetes Management
We have deliberately put goals, plans, and dietary approaches after you have established the Five Essential Habits, because now you will have a better idea of what parameters you want to aim for and the best strategies for achieving your goals. Goals are statements you make about your future. They represent your aspirations. Objectives are typically measurable … Continue reading Set Your Goals, Create Your Plans
Goal/Objective: To establish a daily routine of physical activity within your individual scope of mobility. Time Frame: Ongoing for the rest of your life! Which, of course, will be longer because you exercise. For additional information, see "Exercise" in "Section 2. The 8 Laws of Health." If you are taking these Five Essential Habits in … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Exercise Daily
Goal/Objective: To establish regular consumption of whole-food non-starchy vegetables to replace highly refined processed foods and trans fats. If you are taking these Five Essential Habits in consecutive order, you will continue to monitor your blood glucose daily, drink your optimum amount of water every day, eliminate sugar from your dietary protocol, and now you must add 3-5 servings of … Continue reading Establish Essential Habits: Eat Real Food
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