CHEAT DIABETES

What if I told you that:

• You don't have to be overweight to get prediabetes and diabetes?
• You don't have to be "old" to get prediabetes and diabetes?
• You CAN stop or slow the progression of prediabetes to diabetes 

You'll hear all kinds of descriptions of prediabetes, each of which gives you a piece of the puzzle that is prediabetes. Prediabetes is 'slightly high blood sugar".  Prediabetes is "insulin resistance" due to being overweight. Prediabetes is when "your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not high enough to be classified as diabetes". All true - and for many of my clients, all underwhelming.

A description of prediabetes that in my experience is very helpful and motivating, because it actually gives you a visual that points towards what you need to do to stop prediabetes, is that prediabetes occurs when calorie and sugar intake have been so high, for so long, that the liver becomes overwhelmed and fat begins to deposit in our internal organs - organs...

Do you think that switching to honey or brown sugar, or buying sugar free foods is going to help if you have prediabetes or are worried about developing prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes? Think again... AND avoid these 7 mistakes:

#1 Using large amounts of honey, maple syrup or brown sugar instead of white sugar - and thinking it will help. Truth is ... they're all about the same to your body. The good news is that in a month or so, as you decrease added sugars, you'll get used to less-sweet versions of the foods you eat often. Your tastes WILL change... you just have to be patient and tough it out for the first few weeks. Try plain oatmeal with some frozen or fresh blueberries, have fruit for desserts or snacks, and for a treat: unsweetened yogurt with a little vanilla extract, fresh berries, cocoa powder, and a dusting of crushed walnuts or almonds should do the trick!

#2 Buying lots of sugar-free foods. Most foods sold as 'sugar-free' are PROCESSED foods that you should stay away...

I've been a nutritionist and health coach for over 20 years.

Whenever I hear, "I'm too busy" or "I'm too tired" or "I'm too stressed"  to make a start with eating better or losing weight or starting exercise - 

I KNOW I'm talking to a person who really really really NEEDS TO. 

If you've caught yourself saying (or thinking) one or more of the above, realize that the upside, for you, is HUGE if you find a way to give yourself permission to make a start to improve your health and wellness and energy.

Our busy modern lives often create the perfect storm, where we are so rushed and exhausted and frazzled we don't have time to consider what it's all for and whose life this is, anyway.

Here's a small gift for you... a bright, cheery encouragement to take care of YOU. Do a couple of these things every day for a week, and watch yourself begin to FEEL BETTER - and the resistance to making that healthy change fade away. If you'd like to download it for extra reminders...

New Year's resolutions tend to trod the same old paths: eat better, lose weight, exercise.

These goals, though incredibly important, carry a lot of old baggage for most. There's nothing new or exciting here to grab our brain's attention. There may be plenty of memories of failure, shame and desperation around similar attempts in the past to sour our new efforts. Our self-talk (if we were aware of it) might be peppered with criticisms and attacks on our self, our abilities, and our commitment. Yeesh, at this point, you may have arrived 30 days early at your ultimate New Year's resolution destination: nowhere different.

This year, why not try something new?  Set yourself up for success in the new year by turning your attention NOW to the root of the problem: how overwhelmed, crummy, and uninspired you feel. 

Do something about these 3 areas, and within 1-2 months the eating, weight, and exercise changes you initially wanted will be on the menu as real possibilities.

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80 million adults in the United States have prediabetes and don't even know it. 

Prediabetes is a milepost on the way to diabetes. The usual way prediabetes is explained is that "it's when blood sugar is too high to be considered normal, but not high enough to be classified as diabetes".  

Let me explain prediabetes a little differently:  Prediabetes happens because of excess. EXCESS calories, excess sugar, excess weight, excess sitting ...

It isn't a quick process. You aren't fine one day, and prediabetic (or diabetic) the next. Many years of excess (daily sodas? late night snacking? too many burgers or pizzas?) cause fat to accumulate in your liver and pancreas. Guess what the liver and pancreas do?  Among other things - regulate your blood sugar. Guess what keeps them from doing their jobs? Fat building up where it isn't supposed to be. Too much of a good thing is turning our internal organs into fat-filled piñatas until they can't do their...

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