In this free 3-week challenge, a team of top diabetes experts and I will take you through some of the most important things you need to know about diabetes and exercise, healthy nutrition, and weight management with diabetes.
How the Fit With Diabetes Challenge works
The Fit With Diabetes Challenge consists of five things:
- Daily activities or “challenges” that take you through everything you need to do in a step-by-step fashion
- Articles covering the most important topics on diabetes and weight management
- Weekly meal plan
- Workout programs that you can do during the challenge (home and gym workouts)
- A Facebook support group for challenge participants in which you can ask questions, share your experiences and connect with other people who want to be Fit With Diabetes
The challenge is sponsored by Eversense Diabetes, the first and only 90-day Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system. To learn more about how Eversense can help your diabetes care, please visit the Eversense website.
Oh, and did I mention that it’s totally FREE to take the challenge?
The challenge is for all fitness levels and is based on my own experiences regarding diabetes and exercise, as well as the knowledge and insights of other diabetes and exercise experts. I’m excited to announce that there will be posts by:
- Ginger Vieira (Author of Dealing with Diabetes Burnout & Emotional Eating with Diabetes & Your Diabetes Science Experiment)
- Dr. Mark Heyman (Diabetes Psychologist and a Certified Diabetes Educator. Founder and Director of the Center for Diabetes and Mental Health)
- Ben Tzeel (Registered Dietitian, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist)
Here is what people had to say about the previous challenges:
“I just want to put out there how much I love all the learning and support this challenge offers. In my 40 years with diabetes, I have never experienced anything like this before. I love this!! Thank you so much, Christel!”
– Carol, 2018 challenge participant
“I have said many times over the last few weeks how grateful I am for Diabetes Strong and the Facebook support group. The diabetes articles and meal plans changed my life! Before, when people would ask me how my diabetes is going, I would often reply that I never have a good day but I do have good hours. How depressing is that statement? Great days are now the new normal and not so great hours are rare.”
– Laura, 2017 challenge participant
If you are ready to join me on this journey to learn more about diabetes, weight management, and exercise, then sign up for the challenge in the form below. Let’s get Fit With Diabetes together in 2020!
The 2020 challenge has started and is now closed for sign-up!
Hi Loida – we’ll be addressing BG during and after exercise in the challenge this week, but if you’re not signed up for that I suggest you start exploring the exercise section of the website. We do have pretty hands-on guidance available for both pumpers and people using pens. If you’re looking for more personalized support I offer coaching. If that’s what you’re looking for please let me know
Thanks for your quick response
I will check out your articles and we will be in touch soon
Best regards
Lois
Thanks Christel for this great opportunity. I love reading your posts, and hope to gain further knowledge to help me with my T1 that I have had for 19years now!
Hello,
I’m going to try this again…I dropped out last time, so sorry.
Also, I don’t have Facebook, so I hope that is ok
Hi Martha, I love hearing that :-). And you don’t need Facebook, you will get everything by email and here on Diabetes Strong.
Hi Elizabeth,
Thank you for signing up. I’m glad you decided to join us. You just do what you can and I promise we’ll support you the best we can. Our online community does include others with limited mobility so if you haven’t already I’d highly encourage you to join the Diabetes Strong Community Facebook group.
Hi Cindy,
Glad to hear you found the challenge. Yes, yoga can be great for diabetes as a stress management tool and for overall health and flexibility. Try reading Rachel’s post here on the site: https://diabetesstrong.com/yoga-everybody-diabetes/
Hi!
I hope I can join the challenge from Sweden? Participated in a similar challenge 2 years ago and it did wonders for me, but the crew that held it started to charge for the service and it wasn’t focused on helping diabetics. I’m type one diabetic since 2003 with a heavy genetic predisposition for both type one and two. Lost my mom to the complications in 1981, so I’ve seen the backside with this condition. I go to the gym twice a week and try to eat as healthy as possible but I need inspiration and support.
Looking forward to this.
Kind regards
Anette
Hi Anette, you can definitely join from Sweden. We had participants from over 40 countries in the last challenge and I know we had a group of Swedes as well 🙂
Hi Nancy,
I’m currently using the Polar 360 system (scale and pink watch you see me wearing in a lot of my pictures). I’ve used it for well over 1.5 years and it still works, so nothing wrong with the quality. It doesn’t have as many functionalities as some of the Garmin or FitBit watches so it will all depend on what you need it for. But at least this is a start
I’m very excited about taking this challenge. I have been a type one diabetic for 11 years now. Then early this year I was diagnosed with ms(multiple sclerosis). I really need some help with meals and exercise with these new obsticals and I feel this will be a great opportunity for me. I can’t wait to start.
Hi Frankie,
Glad you decided to sign up. If you want to get a head start there are plenty of resources on the website.
Christel
I just signed up for the challenge. Was just dx with type 2. My numbers are all over the place. Hoping to learn alot. I’m so confused on what to do.
There’s a lot of conflicting information available, but there are also a lot of ways of achieving health, with or without diabetes. You’ll find mine and the other experts perspective in this challenge, but please note that if your medical team has given you specific guidelines we always recommend you follow them or have a conversation with your team on why the guidelines were given.
Glad to see you join
I can’t wait to start this challenge! I have lost 42 lbs already by cutting out sugar but I have leveled off!! I want to lose 40 more lbs so I am going to need help and this challenge should be great motivation!!
Way to go Shawn! Keep up the impressive stride and happy we can be part of your journey