By controlling your blood sugar and weight, you can reduce your risk of complications.

If you are diabetic and overweight, you should listen to your doctor's advice. You should also listen to any other advice you get. You should read whatever you can find, take any classes available to you, and generally find out everything you can about this condition. Educate yourself--make an intelligent, well-informed, and well-thought out decision about whether weight loss is advisable for you.

A person trying to control their diabetes must modify their diet and activity patterns to bring their blood glucose (bG) into a certain range. The drugs and insulin therapy help to reduce your bG and/or increase your insulin. Consequently, the insulin therapy (whether oral medication or insulin injections) helps to put your bG into a range which can then be managed by manipulating your diet and exercise.

The problem is that the manipulations which you perform in order to control your bG sometimes align with what you try in order to lose weight. At other times, they are directly the opposite. Add to that the fact that a diabetic (just like anyone else) should have enough variety and volume in their diet to assure that they are getting enough of the nutrients that they need. Americans spend so much time worrying about eating too much of the wrong things that they forget that the most serious and immediate diseases associated with eating involve not eating enough of the right things.

So a person with diabetes who is trying to lose weight is trying to satisfy three inconsistent sets of requirements: 1) Eat the right things, at the right times, and in the right combinations to keep his bG levels in the correct range 2) Eat enough of the right kinds of foods to meet his minimal nutritional requirements and 3) Eat few enough calories to lose weight.

Insulin resistance refers to the condition in which a person's body does not utilize the insulin which the body produces. This condition is one of the touchstones of type II diabetes. The cells of the body are resistant to the body's own insulin (and perhaps somewhat resistant to artificially introduced insulin).

When the doctor wants to know your 3 month average blood sugar, a order for A1c may be ordered.  What does the result mean? normal is below 6.  A diabetic in good control will usually test at 7.

A1c level of 5 = BG 100

A1c level of 6 = BG 135

A1c level of 7 = BG 170

A1c level of 8 = BG 205

A1c level of 9 = BG 240

A1c level of 10 = BG 275

A1c level of 11= BG 310

As a health coach and dietitian, I am equipped to assist you in making positive, meaningful and intentional changes toward a more fulfilling life.

My coaching style puts you, the client in charge of the agenda.  You can choose a gentle, firm or strong approach to compliance.  I believe, you are naturally creative, resourceful and whole.  That’s right.  Nothing needs to be “fixed”.   I am not a counselor, but a well trained coach through the Hilton Johnson Certified Health Coach Training Program.

I recognize that every person has a unique set of circumstances. This is why a custom-made plan is necessary for making positive changes in your life.

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Wellness covers many areas – physical, spiritual, emotional, mental, occupational, social, nutritional, financial, sleep, hydration, stress… so we start by checking with areas of interest in your life, then prioritizing goals for improvement. 

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