Making your exercise a daily Routine

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Today is Tuesday and Tuesday’s and Sunday’s are stairclimbing days, Monday’s and Thursdays are swimming days, and this is what you need to do to ensure that as a diabetic you get your daily exercise days in. Create a schedule, you can always alter the schedule, but create a schedule, so that way you know that today you will walk, or stairclimb or swim or ride your bike, whatever exercise you have chosen to do, and as a diabetic, you must do something. You cannot stand still. You cannot lead a sedentary lifestyle. You must move or you will die. This is the way you must look at it because this is the truth and this is your reality.
So now we look at the numbers, and they were good after our stairclimb today. Blood sugar was 111, and blood pressure was 141/80. This is really not so bad, given my indiscretions with the four bottles of beer last week. This should show all of you the benefits of exercising on a regular basis. If you exercise regularly, and eat a diet that is devoid of processed foods. If you eat a diet that is full of fruits and vegetables and lean proteins, then as a diabetic your A1c levels will go down and once you get your A1c level down below 7.0, down into the middle 6′s, like 6.6 and 6.5, then you will recover quickly from having spikes in your blood sugar for say having a glass of wine or a few bottles of beer. I don’t advocate drinking any alcohol, but if you are at a Christmas party and the host is serving Champagne, if you exercise regularly and eat the proper diet, then you should have no problems from a few drinks.
So this is the situation, exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet and you can have a fun life. Pick an exercise that you like, even if it’s just walking. Here’s to a better life…

What we put into our stomachs

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How important is what we put into our stomachs, very, very important, as diabetics we must understand that diabetes is an endocrine disorder, that means it orginates in our glandular system, and it is an autoimmune disorder as well, that means something went haywire in our immunology system and this disorder orginates in our guts, in our stomachs and this is all a result of what we eat, what we put into our mouths and this is why it’s so important to be careful about what we eat, because what we eat can affect us for the rest of our lives, and this if, or course, especially truth when it comes to diabetes. Diabetes has become so rampant over the last three to four decades because of the “Western Diet” that we all eat, and what is this western diet. It is a fast foods, very little nutrition, processed foods full of chemical derivatives. It’s a horrible diet and it is what has given rise to this epidemic called diabetes, so here is the question, how do we stop this disease. The answer is really very simple, STOP EATING THE WESTERN DIET. It’s that simple. If we want our diabetes to go into remission, we need to stop eating the things that gave us the disease in the first place.
This is why it’s so important to pay attention to what we put in our mouth, because this will eventually get to our stomachs and it could adversely affect our lives.
When we are eating, we have to think about what we are eating. If we are eating a cantelope, this is good, why is it good. Having diabetes forces us to think about what we are eating and you must do this. You must plan your meals, so that you will eat healthy.
Today was a stairclimb day, so let’s check the numbers to see where we were. Blood sugar was abit elevated at 142, blood pressure as well abit elevated at 141/82. Why was this? I know why, 3 days ago I drank four bottles of beer. It’s a small amount, but when you are a diabetic, any amount is probably too much and look what it did to the numbers, as you may recall last time I did numbers, blood sugar was at 119 and blood pressure was about the same, so I have to be careful about what I put in my mouth.
So for today’s lesson, watch what you put in your mouth, keep track of your foods, don’t eat processed foods or you will pay for it.

Back at the Blog

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hello to all and my deepest apologies to all the readers for my absence, I do apologize. We have been working voraciously on creating the website, www.curingdiabetestype2.com. It is nearly ready to launch the first of the product line. The first product is, The 3 Step Process, wherein I delineate the 3 steps necessary to put diabetes type 2 into remission. This is a great read and if you are interested in getting rid of your diabetes and all the pills and medications that these doctors continue to prescribe, then you must visit the site and check out the free report on, The State of Diabetes in America.
Ok, then, I finished my stair climbing this morning, an exercise which I have not missed, as you all know, if one is diabetic, then missing one’s exercise program is just something we can never do.
Blood sugar remains stable at 119, this is because I am taking the supplements, exercising regularly and my diet remains that of fruits and vegetables with some lean proteins, like lately I have been eating fish and shrimp several times a week, maybe three or four times a week, then beans and legumes as well. With this diet, diabetics will not only loose weight, but they will also stabalize their blood sugar and once some of the weight comes off, their blood pressure will come down, today I was at 133/82, and it might have gone lower had I waited another 10 or so minutes to check my blood pressure. Blood pressure is one of those issues, it goes up and down all day long as we go thru our regular routine.
So in anycase, I hope that all of you are continuing along the path of getting your diabetes under control and the most important aspect of the above program, that is, diet, exercise and nutritional supplements, is that once you stay on this routine, your A1c will go down, my A1c is now below 6.0. It’s at 5.9. I am expecting that when the Dr. takes blood again in 3 months, my A1c should be in the 5.6 to 5.5 range. We will see if that’s the case, but that is what I am aiming for and once you get an A1c to the normal ranges, then it’s much easier to control you blood sugar. Your blood sugar will stabalize, and as you continue to lose weight, your blood pressure will stabalize and this is the goal that as diabetics that you want because once you achieve this then you can go with the business of leading a perfectly normal life.
You will need to continue the lifestyle of, diet, exercise and supplementation, but you will be able to travel anywhere, do anything and just plain live your life. For example, I am a hiker, a desert hiker and that is what I love doing, so for me, getting my A1c under control means now I can plan my next hike. Where am I going? I don’t know yet, but I do know this. I am going, and that is the most important thing and that is what this program is for, so that people with diabetes can go out and live a normal life. You don’t have to hang around the house waiting for your next doctors appointment. You don’t have any more doctors appointments, you are free to go out and live life.
Now just imagine that for a moment, no more doctors appointments. You are done with so and so. They never did anything for you anyway. You did it yourself. Go forth ye diabetics of the past…..

Blood Sugar up, Blood Pressure down

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One of the oddest things about the disease diabetes is how one’s body reacts on a daily basis and as a friend of mine who is diabetic reminded me the other day, everybody’s body is different and that is so true when it comes to this disease. Yesterday I did my stairclimb as per the usual and then took the numbers, blood sugar 150, blood pressure, 124/73.
And I’m thinking to myself, what the heck does this mean? I haven’t had a high blood sugar count like that in months, what happened? And that is the problem with this disease. You think you have it figured out, then BAMM, it hits you in the head, you don’t know squat, nothing, nada.
So what do we do? We just have to continue with our program. There isn’t anything else we can do. We must continue our exercises and our diet practices and of course, we continue to monitor our numbers. This becomes our job, daily, weekly, monthly, every year. To all of you and the best to you, till next time, jc

What Happens when you fall off the wagon

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and a Grand hello to all, I just finished my Sunday stairclimb and I have the numbers to report to you all, and here they are, blood sugar, 135, blood pressure was high at 164/79. Now you may ask why was this? Well, I can tell you exactly why these numbers are higher than normal for me. Friday nite I went out with a couple of buddies, we had a reasonably nutritious Chinese dinner, but we also had a couple of beers. I actually drank 3 bottles of beer and although this is a very moderate amount of alcohol, it’s enough for somebody who has diabetes to raise your blood sugar level and blood pressure levels. You all must remember that I don’t take any more of the pharmaceutical medications.
I am completely off the pharma drugs. The only medications I take are the herbs and medicines that I have specified to all who have purchased, The 3 Step Process. These are very simple herbs that anybody can buy at Walmart, of CVS, or Riteaid or virtually any pharmacy. These herbs and minerals work just fine to control your blood sugar levels and blood pressure, so long as your A1c is below 7.0.
My next A1c test is coming up in three weeks and I really want this one to be below 6.0. I am sure it will be close, so in time we will see how close.
The point in all of this discussion is that for people with type 2 diabetes. We need to continue a diet of fruits and vegetables, with some lean proteins, like fish and jerky’s. We need to continue our regular exercise routine, and every once in awhile, like once a month or once every three months, you can go out and have a couple of beers, or a glass or two of wine. It won’t kill you and in fact as I proceed along this diet and exercise routine, you will all see that as the A1c level gets closer to the mid 5′s, say 5.6, 5.5, or 5.4, the recovery of the blood sugar to normal will occur much quicker even if you have a beer or two on a Friday night with your friends, so this is the point. You can’t drink excessively or every day, but once in awhile you can have a beer or two. It’s as my urologist said some time back. “All things in moderation.” And he was right. A few beers now and then, ok, just do it in moderation and you won’t have any problems. Keep up your diets and exercise and we will see you back here soon, jc

Activites past, activities future

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and a grand hello to all, it’s Sunday nite and time to give up the numbers for today’s stairclimb, discuss the past weeks activities and the upcoming weeks activities. One of the keys to keeping your A1c or diabetes in control is how much you engage in your exercising activity. So, let’s do the numbers and get that out of the way, after this mornings stairclimb, blood sugar was 115 and keep in mind these numbers are without any of the Dr. prescribed medications. I don’t take any of them anymore, since my A1c dropped below 7.0 to where it is now at 6.9. Blood pressure was 119/75.
I do, of course, take plenty of minerals, herbs and vitamins which I am happy to discuss with you all in an upcoming newsletter and “The 3 Step Process.” An information product which will be offered here and on the homepage of the new website which will be coming out in another month or so. I apologize that all this takes so long, but it’s really just a matter of logistics which is inescapable. But in anycase, the above blood numbers proves my point that in order to get off the pharma medications and abate this diabetes disease, one will simply need a new diet, moderate exercise and a certain regimentation of nutritional supplements. And that’s it, once your A1c hits a certain level and I think we can safely sat that level is under 7.0, then you will see blood sugar levels stabalize, as well as, blood pressure.
This will all occur once your A1c levels are below 7.0, so that should be your objective, to get your A1c level down and the way that you do that is a combination of what you eat, your exercise and the nutritional supplementation. Until the next time, keep up the exercise, jc

Keeping up the pressure on diabetes

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If you have diabetes, then you are in for fight, this is a nasty disease and if you don’t fight it hard, it can kill you, so it’s truely a fight for your life and one of the most important things you can do is to remain in control of your sugar levels. Do not let them get out of control, if you do you risk being involved with the very unpleasant complications of diabetes.
Most type 2 diabetis when first diagnosed, there doctors put them on Metformin. What you are going to want to do when the Dr. puts you on this medication is revise your diet. You need to get rid of the fast foods, and processed foods and start a diet of fruits, vegetables and lean proteins, such as black beans, turkey jerky and chicken or fish.
You will need to have your Dr. check your A1c level and once you start your new diet and as well start a moderate exercise program consisting of just walking. Once you do this, the next time the Dr. takes blood checking A1c, your A1c will have gone down, so you will want to continue the diet and exercise routine, because your goal is to reduce your A1c down to a normal level of 5.5 to 5.3.
I just checked my blood sugar and blood pressure. Blood sugar was 105 and blood pressure is 137/79. These are good numbers and the blood sugar numbers are a result of the food diet I have been on since September. This diet has brought my A1c levels down to a point where my blood sugar numbers are much more normal and this is every diabetics goal.
Until next time, keep the faith, keep the fight.

Blood pressure and diabetes

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Happy Easter to all, I am going to post my blood numbers now as today was a hiking day for me, so after the hike I took blood sugar and blood pressure numbers and here they are.  Blood sugar, 119, the exercise, diet and turmeric and billberry supplements have been doing a completely awesome job.  Blood pressure was worse, 167/86.  I’m pretty sure I know what the problem is, a couple of weeks ago I ran out of my potassium pills. Tomorrow I will get some more, but I don’t like such high numbers and hopefully they will come down with the use of the potassium supplements.  One thing about taking these supplements, you have to take them on a regular basis because they need to be constantly in your body.  So we will see if that makes a difference later this week when I ride the bike and check the numbers there after. all the best, jc

Food Really Matters

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hello to all, one of the most important things we can talk about as diabetics is food, it really matters. I think we are all learning that food, that which we put into our bodies is paramount in stabalizing our blood sugar and blood pressure.  As I mentioned previously, I had a very salty soup last weekend which did my blood pressure in, so we have to be conscious of what we eat.

One of the big problems we all have is just plain going grocery shopping because the stores in which we buy our foods are so full of processed foods and as such we never know what the heck is really in the foods we are eating, and we need to know what we are eating, so it’s best to quit shopping in the grocery stores.  Shop at the local farmer’s markets, shop in small neighborhood stores that have a fresh fruits and vegetables section, and I do know that sometimes these stores are hard to find, but you must make a conscious effort to find them because your life depends upon it.

Over the last week, I have cut out all meats, red or otherwise and all carbohydrates, bread, flour tortillas, etc. all gone, I am left to eating fruits and vegetables only with nuts, trail mix and beans for proteins, that’s it and already in the last four days alone, I have lost just over 3 pounds.  It’s amazing how quickly the weight will come off if you only get rid of certain foods.  This is how adversely these foods can effect us.

So I urge all of the readership to create a diet that you can live with then stay on it for as long as you can.  I intend to be on the above diet for at least the next three weeks and I am hoping to make it four weeks, so that would be a diet for a total of 5 weeks.  Given my current weight loss, I expect that over the next 4 to 5 weeks, I will have lost 10 to 15 pounds, that will put me back in a position to get myself under 200 pounds by mid June, and then with another 15 to 20 pounds lost, I will be at my optimum weight.

What will be interesting to see in the next month, how much this weight loss will effect my blood pressure numbers.  This is what I am going to want to know, since I will not be eating any sodium or salt at all except for that which is in the foods I eat, so we shall see.  I expect my blood pressure numbers will be down by the end of this week.  Tomorrow, I will swim a mile and by Saturday or Sunday I will stairclimb again and will report my numbers after this event.  All the best to you all and just keep on walking.

 

Eating and Blood Pressure

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and a wonderful hello to all, I just checked my blood numbers after going for a morning stair climb and here they are, blood sugar, 102, blood pressure 148/88.  This was a high reading for the blood pressure and I think it was high because of some of the food I was eating yesterday, a very salty tripe soup.  I am not going back to that restraurant again.  Their soups are too salty, and this is the problem with what we put into our mouths.  It can be a direct reflection of our blood numbers, so we must be careful.  If you are diabetic and have high blood pressure, you need to focus on losing at much of your weight as possible, as well, you need to keep sodium consumption to an absolute minimum.  Once salt gets into your stomach and then into the blood stream, it will effect your blood pressure levels, so keep it out of your system.

Recently, I have been on yet another diet, the thing about being diabetic is that you have to keep trying different foods to see which foods you are not inflammed by and since everybody’s body is different, you cannot know what foods will inflame you until you eat them.  My diet of late has consisted of fruits, vegetables, and legumes, nuts, beans and lentils.  This is a wonderful diet if you can adhere to it for awhile.  Awhile, should be at least 2 weeks, 4 weeks would be better.  I am going to try for 4 weeks.  I want to see how much more weight I will lose.  I am hoping to lose another 10 pounds, so we will see.

Most middleaged type 2 diabetics are 40 to 50 pounds over weight.  For example, at the height of my obesity I was 63 pounds over weight.  Right now I am right in the neighborhood of 35 pounds overweight, which is not good, but it’s better than it was.  As my doctor told me a few days ago, “You’re headed in the right direction.”  And as I told him, yeah, but I could do a better job.  He just laughed and told me to just keep losing the weight, so that is what I intend to do.

The last time I started adding on weight, my diet included, red meat, flour tortillas, fresh white bread and mayonaise.  This was enough to add 10 pounds to my body in a period of a month, so for me what I eat, diet, is everything and I know there are many people just like me. If we go out to dinner at night to the restraurant we will gain 7, or 8 pounds, just like that.

So this is what the 3 Step Process is about, telling diabetics what food groups they can eat and what food groups they need to avoid, at some point you start to get used to eating in the food groups that don’t destroy your body.  For example, I have been totally off soft drinks for well over a year and by now, I don’t miss them.  I used to be addicted to certain soft drinks, but now thanks to my juicer and just plain water, I am off these sugar drinks and thank God.  There is so much that we eat and drink in the western diet that kills us.  We need to be aware of this, so that we can break these bad habits.  All the best and keep the faith, jc.