If you suffer from diabetes, you will know how much of an impact it has on your life, restricting your diet, requiring you to take up a stringent medication regimen and a constant worry about your blood sugar levels.
New studies show us that specific lifestyle changes can not only can improve your condition but overtime will reverse the disease. It is not just your genetics but your lifestyle that has a profound affect on your likelihood on developing the disease. Therefore by correcting these choices in nutrition, activity and behaviour will lead to better control and potentially reversal.
As I often say to my patients with Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes- if the disease is impacting your lifestyle anyway - then why not give it a try ? You have everything to gain!
So how can I be so confident in beating a condition like Type 2 diabetes, which on any assessment is nothing short of a global epidemic?
The answer comes from taking step by step approach to Type 2 diabetes which starts with understanding what diabetes and prediabetes is in the first place. Your genetics are not reversible but your health and lifestyle choices are!
STEP 1: Understanding the impact of each of your lifestyle factors on the disease; your diet, physical activity, your weight, smoking, stress, your sleep quality. Dispelling myths around foods and diets, and clarifying concepts eg low GI diets.
STEP 2: Identify where you are willing to make improvements, and plan small steps towards each goal. Lifestyle medicine is not about meal plans and rigid instructions, we are working on making changes for life and reversing years of impact on your health.
STEP 3: Supporting and coaching you to turn those small steps into big differences in your health. Monitoring and measuring your progress, will help keep you motivated and on track.
It may sound simple, but most common sense solutions are.
Our Service can be delivered face to face or online, or a combination of the two, as needed according to your busy lifestyle.
We also provide services for those who are classified Pre-diabetic.
We take into account restrictions you may already have in diet, exercise or sleep patterns and ensure that our plan works in harmony with your busy lifestyle.
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