Managing diabetes is, in itself, a challenge. Why would you want to add additional challenges, you ask? Well, the challenges given in this section are not additional obstacles to be overcome, but they are strategies and tactics to employ in order to reach the goals you have set for yourself.
The pages below are listed chronologically, by month, throughout the year. But any of them can be employed at any time!
Goals: To establish a routine of good habits that will help improve your diabetic health, regardless of your dietary lifestyle. These are cumulative activities for the month of January. Start with using your blood glucose meter daily as described in Week 1. Beginning with Week 2, continue to use your blood glucose meter daily and…
Great job in January! Now that you have established some good practices 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 what else you do or don’t do for your diabetic health. And you…
Good for you in starting to master the basics of diabetic health! You have become expert in using your glucose meter, drinking water, eating leafy green vegetables, following a daily exercise regime, practicing portion control, and keeping an accurate, detailed food journal. Keep working on Eating to Your Meter. March 1 – Check Your Progress…
So far, you have set your goals and objectives (December), learned how to use your glucose meter and got a “jumpstart” with drinking water, eating green vegetables, and exercising every day (January), focused on portion control, food journaling, and “eating to your meter” (February), and sought to improve your diabetic health with adequate sleep and…
May 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
June 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
July 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
August 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
September 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
October 1 – Check Your Progress Goal: To measure and evaluate your progress. Check and record your Weight and body measurements Clothes sizes (shirt/top, dress, skirt, pants, shoes, underwear) Blood pressure and heart rate Compare to the first day of the previous months. Compare your daily average blood glucose for the previous months. Now, move…
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, with World Diabetes Day on November 14. This is a perfect time to focus on the seriousness of diabetes, its complications and consequences, and gain new understandings of how to prevent them in your own life. Since it has been six months since The 30-day Richard Osborn Challenge (in…
The winter holidays are typically very stressful. For a variety of reasons. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is frequently the most stressful time of the year for many people. There are school, work, and church programs, parties, and family gatherings, often involving food and, unfortunately for diabetics, the worst possible foods for diabetes control! For many,…
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