| It is said that diabetes is a disease that relies much more on the patient than on the doctor. This is very true. A doctor may administer penicillin for a strep throat, a dentist may yank a diseased tooth, and that will be the end of it. Living comfortably with diabetes, however, can only be made possible when the person suffering diabetes is in control of the situation.
Being Ever Vigilant
This means taking care of yourself, and perhaps above all else, remaining vigilant. Testing yourself regularly, tracking your key medical measurements, and monitoring your mood and energy levels from day to day.
And this is the part that some of us hate; if you experience any abnormalities, adjust your diet accordingly. Drag yourself kicking and screaming into a healthy lifestyle if you have to. A person suffering diabetes or pre-diabetes can’t afford to cut themselves any slack.
Making Health Less Boring
Luckily, there are plenty of ways to make healthy food more delicious than it typically tends to be. Diabetes-friendly sweets are largely limited to fruits, so maybe try experimenting with different exotic fruits and seeing if any catch your fancy.
Keeping track of your diet and the effect it has on you can be made a lot easier with a diabetes diet tracker notebook. With a diabetic diet tracker, you can log diabetic diet details like what you enjoyed and how it affected you, and find foods that you love, but don’t have a detrimental effect on your levels.
Experimenting is key, but you don’t want to turn yourself into a guinea pig. To find lots of ideas to get you started and to experiment safely, try looking into a diabetes diet guidebook for advice on creating a meal plan that’s healthy, but which consists of more than lettuce sandwiches and ice water. Keep searching online, too, to find nutritional information and recipes for diabetic safe diets.
“But I’m only monitor pre-diabetic! What do I care?”
Unfortunately, being pre-diabetic is not a free pass to eat whatever you want. To prevent pre-diabetes from becoming full blown diabetes, a pre-diabetes diet journal can help you maintain a good, consistent diet, perhaps better than you even suspect.
Besides logging details of your medical statistics and such, a diet journal also provides a sort of subconscious inclination to avoid eating anything too unhealthy. When you know you’re going to have to write it down, the long term effect of indulging your impulses becomes tangible. “If I eat this, it will have a negative effect” is easier to remember when you know you’re going to have to write down what you ate, and the negative effect it had.
Remaining Confident
Of course, staying on track shouldn’t be a matter of playing the shame game on yourself. Keep a positive attitude, look for recipes and exercise that you really enjoy. Keeping up with a healthy lifestyle to live more comfortably with diabetes or to prevent pre-diabetes from becoming full blown diabetes is hard work, but it doesn’t have to be boring, taxing, or unpleasant. Just arm yourself with the right knowledge: Read as much as you can on diabetes, and always be on the
lookout for new ideas with regards to eating well and staying fit.
Author Bio:
Written by Diabetics for Diabetics, Diabetes Self-Defense Weekly Journal and Reference Manual provides a Diabetes workbook for all people living with diabetes or pre-diabetes to live the healthiest, happiest, and longest lives possible. Included are a Diabetes medicine log, a diabetic diet tracker, and a place to record weekly insulin. Created in a classic, wire-bound notebook style for convenience, all-in-one diabetes notebook is designed to help you properly managed your Diabetes. |
