Coming To Terms With Type 1 Diabetes by Debbie Young

Jeanne lost 18% of her body weight, and her A1c is back in the normal range. Learn More About YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities We’ve made a lot of changes, and it’s had a huge positive impact on us and the people in our life.' We don’t want to go back to how it was before. My wife and I feel that we need to do this. It doesn’t mean I can’t have pizza every once in a while, but I can’t have pizza every day. I have to stay committed to this way of life and the change I’ve made. My doctor was really impressed with the changes I’ve made my most recent blood test showed I was in the normal range.

My wife and I made the commitment to do this, and I can’t believe how well it’s gone. We have more energy, feel better, and gradually started exercising by walking together. We find substitutions for foods we liked that still satisfy us. My wife wasn’t in the group, but she was really doing the program (in the background) with me, and we worked on it together. For the first time, I recognized I really needed to change the way I was eating. I didn’t realize how poorly I was eating until I started logging my food and counting fat grams. I really liked how it all fit together: the way you eat, the physical activity, managing stress-it all matters. Each session gave a little different aspect, and eventually you put it all together. My mother-in-law had diabetes and I have friends with diabetes, so I’ve seen how hard it can be to live with it. 'After a blood test, my doctor said I was in the prediabetes range and really stressed is a route I don’t want to go.

from the YMCA of the Northĭavid lost 12.4% of his body weight and went down two sizes.

Coming To Terms With Type 1 Diabetes by Debbie Young