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Excited to celebrate my birthday 6-yrs after diabetes diagnosis
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Oct 1, 2018 | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
@retiredteacher If you have a health club, Y, or facility as part of a local hospital, you might be surprised at how many people your age and older go to exercise. I go to a health club and there are many people there in their 80s. I myself just turned 71 and go about 6 days a week -- three for water exercise, and three in the gym. Oddly I don't think of it as being for my mild diabetes but I guess it must help too.
I have had diabetes now for at least 12 years, maybe 13 or 14. I believe it was the first indication of my silent cirrhosis which the hepatologist told me I probably had for about 10 years before it was diagnosed. My A1c is good so my endo only has me checking my bg once a week, two hours after a meal, and I take no medications.
I do really miss some of the starches that I limit and of course the sweets, but I eat most meat and fish, just not fried.
If you actually do want to lose weight, I suggest using myfitnesspal.com. You keep track of EVERYTHING that you eat. It helped me enormously. I lost a lot of weight.
JK
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@chocolate5lover, I don't live close to any type of gym, no Y, no facility attached to a hospital. I'd have to drive over and hour one way to get to something, and I don't drive. My husband does all the driving, so a trip to exercise isn't in the cards. I used to exercise when I was young and busy all the time, but not now. Some people like to go to the gym and others don't. I'm in the others group. I was skinny all my life until I had to retire, and then boredom led me to be a couch potato. I had a tread mill that I looked at every day, but how boring is that? I also don't like to sweat, so as long as I can stay in line with diet and having good numbers and not having to take meds, I am accepting of the disease. Thanks for mentioning all of the options, but I don't live where any of these options exist. I do my household chores and grocery shopping, and that's my exercise. It works for me.
Congratulations on all of your activities. That's terrific.
retiredteacher