Type 2 Diabetes - Managing Diabetes On A Daily Basis
Dealing with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes is different to dealing with many other medical conditions.
One of the main differences is, regardless of whether or not you want to be bothered with managing it, you still have to focus on controlling it each and every day.
If you decide to take the day off, you can be guaranteed to pay for it.
How do you pay for it? Bit by bit your blood sugar level starts to get out of control.
You start to get a taste for some of the foods you need to avoid, or at least keep to a minimum.
If you don't pull yourself up quickly you are on the road to out of control blood sugar levels and weight gain.
This is not where you want to go.
This is what you are trying to prevent.
Diabetes, be it Type 1, Type 2, or even Gestational diabetes, doesn't allow you to take days off.
Once you take the slightest bit of focus off of monitoring your blood sugar level, your blood sugar takes advantage of this freedom and goes haywire.
While allowing yourself to eat whatever you want, in whatever quantity you desire might be liberating, you are guaranteed to suffer the consequences of your actions later on.
Even if you over-indulge once or twice on the same day, it will more than likely take you more than one more day to completely stabilize your blood sugar from your little adventure.
But besides feeling rough for a little while, taking a vacation from monitoring blood sugar is harmless, right? Well, not exactly.
One of the purposes behind monitoring is to identify patterns.
You need to see your blood sugar stays relatively constant every day, unless you indulge or don't follow the guidelines in some way.
Taking a day off of monitoring means you are throwing off your pattern.
It might take more than a day to get things back to normal.
Meanwhile, you are to start all over with establishing a baseline.
Correctly monitoring your diabetes involves developing a series of habits:
This is a big problem with so many people with Type 2 diabetics don't use injectable insulin, especially newly diagnosed diabetics.
They feel fine so they determine there is no reason to check their sugar.
This is one of the main reasons people with Type 2 diabetes do not reverse their disease.
The problem with diabetes is by the time you don't feel fine, it's too late.
You are already experiencing blood sugar levels that are too high or too low.
It's the same thing as touching a hot stove.
You don't rely on touching a hot stove to remind you not to touch one: you automatically remember not to do it so that you don't have to go through the painful reminder.
One of the main differences is, regardless of whether or not you want to be bothered with managing it, you still have to focus on controlling it each and every day.
If you decide to take the day off, you can be guaranteed to pay for it.
How do you pay for it? Bit by bit your blood sugar level starts to get out of control.
You start to get a taste for some of the foods you need to avoid, or at least keep to a minimum.
If you don't pull yourself up quickly you are on the road to out of control blood sugar levels and weight gain.
This is not where you want to go.
This is what you are trying to prevent.
Diabetes, be it Type 1, Type 2, or even Gestational diabetes, doesn't allow you to take days off.
Once you take the slightest bit of focus off of monitoring your blood sugar level, your blood sugar takes advantage of this freedom and goes haywire.
While allowing yourself to eat whatever you want, in whatever quantity you desire might be liberating, you are guaranteed to suffer the consequences of your actions later on.
Even if you over-indulge once or twice on the same day, it will more than likely take you more than one more day to completely stabilize your blood sugar from your little adventure.
But besides feeling rough for a little while, taking a vacation from monitoring blood sugar is harmless, right? Well, not exactly.
One of the purposes behind monitoring is to identify patterns.
You need to see your blood sugar stays relatively constant every day, unless you indulge or don't follow the guidelines in some way.
Taking a day off of monitoring means you are throwing off your pattern.
It might take more than a day to get things back to normal.
Meanwhile, you are to start all over with establishing a baseline.
Correctly monitoring your diabetes involves developing a series of habits:
- you get up, you check your levels
- you eat your meals, you check levels
- you exercise, you check levels
- you indulge, you check levels
- you drink alcohol, you check levels
- if you feel "off" or unwell, you check your blood sugar levels.
This is a big problem with so many people with Type 2 diabetics don't use injectable insulin, especially newly diagnosed diabetics.
They feel fine so they determine there is no reason to check their sugar.
This is one of the main reasons people with Type 2 diabetes do not reverse their disease.
The problem with diabetes is by the time you don't feel fine, it's too late.
You are already experiencing blood sugar levels that are too high or too low.
It's the same thing as touching a hot stove.
You don't rely on touching a hot stove to remind you not to touch one: you automatically remember not to do it so that you don't have to go through the painful reminder.
