As you set out to improve your health, include these 5 steps to help you reach your goals. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar 5 Steps to Achieve Your Goals: 1. Set your intentions. Be specific, write them down, and share with others. Post in places where you can remind yourself on a daily basis what you are working towards. Write out WHY you want to reach your goals. What motivates you? Consider making a vision board or vision book to help keep you focused. 2. Know that any goal worth achieving … [Read more...]
How to Prevent Complications from Unmanaged Diabetes
Twenty-eight years ago I lost my first husband, James, due to complications caused by unmanaged diabetes. I learned a lot from James and there are lessons for you too. I learned: 1. I couldn’t keep him alive or control him. Everyone is responsible for their own self care. 2. No two people with diabetes are alike. I saw that it was important to listen to the person with diabetes and know what was important to him/her. James did best when he was involved in the decision making. (Now I use that approach with my clients.) 3. When people get diabetes, they don’t know about diabetes. … [Read more...]
Should You Even Try To Lose Weight?
Many people try so hard to lose weight. They’ll do just about anything-spend lots of money on weight loss products, go on diet after diet; and in the end feel defeated and desperate. Others are just sick of hearing the words, “weight loss”. Still others are just stuck, not knowing what to do. They keep putting off taking any action whatsoever. Weight loss can be a “weighty” topic. Many health care professionals don’t even address it. Should you even try to lose weight? What do you think? Believe it or not, some registered dietitian nutritionists (RDN) say no. Some say yes. Here are the … [Read more...]
Hurricane and Disaster Preparedness for Diabetes
It's hurricane season. Are you prepared to take care of your family, and your diabetes? Here's what you need to know. If you have to evacuate, I want you to have what you need. In addition to the usual items, you will have to do a little extra planning if you have diabetes. (It seems like you always have to do more when you have diabetes). Being prepared ahead of time is huge if you are victimized by a natural disaster. Here are some strategies and resources so you don't have to figure everything out on the run. When Hurricane Katrina hit, many of the folks who were displaced fled to … [Read more...]
5 Easy Ways to Make Changes that Stick!
Everyone knows that to grow and improve we need to evolve. To evolve involves change. But change is hard. However, a failure to change may lead you down a road of unnecessary danger. Weight loss is the change that so many of us desire. Most attempt some fad diet, and then another, but generally the diet ultimately fails. Sure, there is initial weight loss, sometimes dramatic weight loss, but most often the weight reappears, often along with a total weight increase. The dieter believes they have failed when really it is the diet that is the failure. As diets are seldom a viable long term … [Read more...]
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