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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Type 2 Diabetes - Strategies for Weight Loss Awesomeness!

Losing weight is important for Type 2 diabetics. Many people are overweight when they're first diagnosed, and that extra fat actually increases their insulin resistance. By losing weight, people with Type 2 diabetes can become less insulin resistant, and they're able to use insulin better and produce lower blood sugar levels naturally.

So, it can be said losing weight is important for Type 2 diabetics.

Some people would have called this an article about weight loss "success". But success is too vague, and not nearly inspiring enough. To be successful, all you have to do is something, anything. You try to walk across the room and turn on a light switch... and you're successful! That was easy. This is about losing weight, not just patting yourself on the back for surviving another day. You're a person who is capable of incredible things, and you have a great deal of control over your own actions and your own habits... which are what determine the course your life takes from now on. In other words, you have the power to be awesome.

Here's how to make a start with weight loss:

1. Don't rely on will power:

We need to start out by clarifying how you achieve a state of true awesomeness. You start out by abandoning the notion that you are going to "will" yourself to be that way. Your will power is a limited quantity, and you need to save it for times when your life really needs something special. When you have to chase down a bus, or when you need to rip the door off of a car to save a child trapped inside, or when a bear is threatening your kids, that's the time for will power. Even if you were Chuck Norris, you could not constantly fight a bear for your entire life... it would maul you worse than Bruce Lee mauled old Chuck all those years ago.

2. Make fitness and healthy eating habits:

You need to establish new habits and new barriers, if you want to become a more awesome individual. You may think that barriers only stop things... but did you know that they can also be used as a means of keeping you doing the right things. Seriously, if all you have in the house is healthy food, and the nearest fast food place is miles away, you are more likely going to eat the healthy stuff that's right here, so long as it's palatable. As well, if you set your alarm for an hour earlier than you need to get up to get ready for work, you might as well get into that workout. It's not like you're going to get back to sleep, anyway.

3. Push through the initial discomfort:

And yes, the first few weeks are going to be intensely difficult for you. Changes are never easy, and you have to understand that some slippage is okay. Giving up being lazy and gluttonous is like giving up binge drinking and cigarettes... it's incredibly difficult, because you have to change how you see yourself. If you continue to see yourself as who you were, you will continue to be how you have been. But if you decide that from now on you are going to be a newer and thinner person, the same principle will start to take hold.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Weight Loss Requires Blood Sugar Levels To Be Stable

ByCarolyn Hansen

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We used to think that only diabetics had to be concerned about their blood sugar levels but this is not so anymore. We tend not to give our blood sugar (glucose) levels a second thought but we need to if we are to reduce our risk of nasty chronic diseases which have become epidemic in our over-fed, under-exercised modern sedentary world.

Our blood sugar levels are important to our overall health and can affect how fat or slim we are, how energetic or not we feel, how hungry we feel or whether we burn fat or store it. All of these things affect the quality of our life both short-term and long-term. The latest research says the one in four of us has pre-diabetes and does not know it and if this current trend continues, one in three of us will be diagnosed with this chronic disease of diabetes in our lifetime. So it is serious stuff.

Some of the signs you are heading down this path may be a feeling really tired and listless during the day, you may be anything from slightly to very overweight, your daily and/or work schedule is stressful, you have irregular eating patterns and may have high blood sugar/fats/pressure. All of these symptoms can leave you susceptible to diabetes.

The foods that affect our blood sugar levels the most and cause them to fluctuate wildly are processed refined non-nutrient foods. These can range from baked goods like biscuits and cakes to sugary drinks, breads, pastas, grains, sweets, fruit and cereals.

If you have become overweight especially around the tummy, feel tired a lot of the time or have become a slave to a roller coaster of uncontrollable food cravings it might be time to take a detour from the road you are going down. The change you should make to control your blood sugar levels are one and the same that anyone who wants to be healthy should follow.

It should include a proper exercise program that is made up mostly strength training exercise to get those muscles working, strong and toned up. This will allow them to take up and process sugar from the blood so it can be burnt up harmlessly for energy. Regular exercise that directly involves working the muscles with adequate resistance is the most potent diabetes defense at your disposal.

In other words, strength training exercise improves your body's ability to control blood sugar levels and respond to insulin at every possible step in the process. And these are the keys to helping to prevent diabetes or controlling it if you already have it.

Eat to support your exercise program with small meals of natural foods cooked from scratch each with a portion of protein and the balance vegetables will keep blood sugar steady, curb hunger and prevent overeating. Eating unprocessed foods will also maintain high energy levels which will make you want to be more physically active.

The damage to our body that leads to diabetes and other chronic preventable 'lifestyle' diseases such as heart disease, cancer and many others does not happen overnight. It can take years of disuse and neglect to reach the disease state. But once it happens there is no cure for a broken down body.

Make sure it does not happen to you and a few changes in your lifestyle such as healthier eating and proper exercise will put you on a healthier path so you avoid these modern diseases that can rob you of not only your health but your life as well.

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Lose Weight As Soon As Possible To Avoid Diabetes

BySergey Kirsch

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Diabetes is a very serious disease, because it can attach you to additional insulin injections for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, it is mostly impossible to do anything once your pancreas stopped producing insulin on its own. If it happens, we get type 1 diabetes and have to help our body get insulin, as a rule, with the help of insulin injections.

The other situation emerges when we detect type 2 diabetes. This one is usually connected with excess body weight and obesity. Nearly ninety percent of diabetics have type 2 diabetes. And the majority of them have problems with their body weight. So, while it is not late, they can try to lose weight and this will greatly help them in curing their diabetes. Let us see why it is possible.

When we eat carbohydrates, our body transforms them into glucose. Usually, there should be a stable level of glucose in the blood. The surplus of it is stored in the liver in a spare form, so-called glycogen. If the glucose level in the blood drops, the body begins to use its stores of fast energy - glycogen, and increases the glucose level to its norm.

Unfortunately, excess food intake does a very unpleasant thing: the liver cells, which are normally expected to store glycogen, now change their purpose. They are full of glycogen, which should be quickly used by the body to get fast energy, but the body doesn't use. Instead, we get the next food portion, and there is no place for the coming glucose to be stored. At first, the body tries to solve the situation and starts to convert existing glycogen into fat. It helps, but not for long. Soon all the liver cells are filled with fat, and there is no other place to store glucose. As a result, the glucose level in the blood rises and remains high. The pancreas reacts and increases the insulin level. It is quite natural and it the norm: our pancreas still works. But the big problem here is that usually such people will get additional doses of insulin. In the long run the pancreas stops producing its own insulin, and we reach into type 1 diabetes.

The solution is very easy. Eat less amounts of food, but more often and move more. These simple things will let you preserve your liver from obesity and there will be enough space for glycogen to be stored. Thus, you will be able to avoid diabetes and lose excess body weight.

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