An HbA1c reading on its own isn’t very helpful unless you know what it really means about your daily blood sugar levels. Understanding ...
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How to Stick to Your Diet and Workout Routine
So it’s Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the month or whatever, and you have decided that now is the time to make some changes. ...
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Yoga to Increase Insulin Sensitivity (Yoga Video)
Rachel Zinman, the author of Yoga For Diabetes, has another great yoga practice for us today. It focusses on improving insulin ...
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Yoga and Diabetes – How Yoga Affects My Blood Sugar
I try to include yoga in my workout schedule whenever I can. It will never be my main type of workout (I love resistance training too much ...
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How Resistance Training Affects Your Blood Sugar
If you regularly do cardio (like running, swimming, dancing etc.), you have probably noticed that your blood sugar reacts differently ...
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Why You Should Include Resistance Training in Your Weight Loss Plan
When we think about exercising for weight loss, we tend to turn automatically to cardio workouts that get the heart pumping, build up a ...
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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #3
Wohoo! You made it to week 2 of the Fit With Diabetes challenge and to another fun cardio workout. The concept hasn’t changed from last ...
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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #2
Are you ready to get your sweat on again? This is the second cardio workout for the Fit With Diabetes challenge. But you are of course ...
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How to Find Your Formula for Insulin and Food Around Workouts
Like most people with diabetes, I tend to have a love/hate relationship with cardio. I love all the positive things that cardio does for my ...
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How to Lower Your Blood Sugar With Exercise
With a diabetes diagnosis also comes the daily task of self-management, and if you have lived with diabetes for any amount of time, you know ...
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Fit With Diabetes Challenge Cardio Workout #1
Are you ready to get your sweat on? This is the first cardio workout for the Fit With Diabetes challenge. But don’t worry, even if you ...
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Diabetes and Alcohol: How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Sugar?
Balancing diabetes and alcohol can be a tricky endeavor. Even in a non-diabetic, not only does alcohol affect certain people differently, ...
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Hiking with Diabetes
One of the things I love most about living in Southern California is that I can be outside wearing shorts pretty much every day of the year. ...
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Why Some Types of Exercise Can Make Your Blood Sugar Increase
Have you ever wondered why your blood sugar falls during certain types of exercise whilst roaring to sky-high levels during and after other ...
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What to Tell Your Personal Trainer About Your Diabetes
I haven’t always been a certified personal trainer or diabetes coach. When I started to get really serious about fitness, I was a corporate ...
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How to Treat Low Blood Sugar at Night
Having a low blood sugar at night is the worst. THE WORST! If you are treating your diabetes with insulin, you know what I’m talking about. ...
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3 Fitness & Diabetes Myths You Shouldn’t Believe
Today, I want to talk to you about some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about diabetes. I am not talking about the misconceptions ...
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How to Succeed at a New Year’s Fitness Resolution
Research shows that a New Year's fitness resolution can be exceptionally effective, as long as you have the right approach (you can watch ...
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How I Started Running with Type 1 Diabetes (After Saying “I Don’t Run” for Years)
Jennifer Christensen lives with type 1 diabetes and recently completed her first half marathon – even though she always used to say, “I ...
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Fasted Cardio and Diabetes: Friend or Foe?
If you ask 100 people about their thoughts on fasted cardio, you’d probably get 100 different answers, coming down to two main themes: ...