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Diet is a dirty word for me, I don't diet my road to fitness is a lifestyle change. I've gone from a size 20 to a size 8 since Feb 06 206 and I'm sticking with what I've done to protect the innocent.

I workout in the early a.m. 5:30/6:00 and take my beta blocker 2 hrs AFTER . I have forgotton and taken it before working out and my legs felt as if they were glued to the floor and my body was sluggish, very sluggish.

I'm on a beta blocker but it's Atenolol. I never thought about it but it took me 3.5 years to lose weight once I began working out. I lost dress sizes but not weight until one day, I realized I had lost 35lbs. That happened between year 3 and 3.5 but I don't know when. Since my objective was to get my type II diabetes…

A rumor was started in my apartment that I had AIDS. I found out when a really nice young man asked me who was I doing and he was sorry to hear I was ill. I asked him what was he talking about and then he told me. After that was straightened out, they told me I had cancer, the they being the folks in the building, not a…

It's good to see someone else who wants to know how our bodies work or doesn't work. If you are exercising to help control your glucose numbers, you may want to get a hold of the a book written by a Type I Diabetic, it is also for type IIs, called, The Diabetic Athlete's Handbook, by Sheri Colberg. You don't have to be a…

We exercise, aka, workout, to burn calories, build muscles - repeated movement/loading a muscle) and gain overall health and wellness. In order to burn calories the muscle(s) have to contract regularly and some type of rhythm. The calorie burn comes from the fuel needed to move the muscle to expand and contract. All this…

I started out with an A1c of just under 12, 11.9, back in 2001. I am now @ 6.3-6.5 and my endo told me I really don't have to come back. Upon first being diagnosed by my Primary Care, I didn't know what to do and considered my fate as being inevitable. However, once I began my own research I realized my health was in my…

If you live in a large town or medium city, try to find a new doctor. If you are working out as part of your fitness and wellness goals, try to find one who is a member of a Sports Medicine Association, that little association is like night and day. I agreed to be tracked by a nurse practitioner. as diabetes support (type…

I'm on Metformin only and I've had lows like that especially if I've had a long aerobic exercise session. In fact I've done 2.5/3hr sessions on the days I crave pancakes, real maple syrup with berries. I work out BEFORE I eat them and I don't spike at all because I've created a glycogen deficit in both my muscles and…

One of the best gifts I gave to my now 35 year old son, was to go back to school when he was in 4th grade. Because both of us were in school and studying togeather, doing homework, etc. He got to see how important and celebrated learing and education was for me. He is now an engeneer in the aerospace industry and has…

What I see is all good. If you are on Metformin, have you vit. D and B12 levels checked.

I've noticed it appears that the older folks have suggested getting new friends. That suggestion comes from living life long enought to know and understand that a person usually can count on one hand the friends that last a lifetime. A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still likes you. Some of the folks…

Just Google the first sentence in the article.

@ Jaybarboo, this was just posted, read this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/595473-why-the-scale-goes-up-with-a-new-workout-program-must-read

Also if you're having blood work done right after starting a new exercise program or if you've done a pretty intense workout two days before, your blood will show excess protein from your muscles breaking down which might alarm the doctor. I know it happened to me.

The muscles that need to repair also become insulin resistant until they are repaired. So for diabetics, type I and type II there is a temporary increase in blood glucose levels.

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The right time to exercise is the time you exercise, it's all good. But in all seriousness, I work out in the morning before going to work only because I don't know when I'll be walking in the door from work. I have one of those jobs where you stay until what needs to get done, gets done. So it is the A.M. for me,…

Are you sore from exercising? If you muscles are inflamed, you could be holding water. Some people have this problem but not everyone. Also I want to share my story. Years ago when I began exercising, after six weeks I would stop because I always gained 14 to 15 pounds. Folks would comment about my weight loss and I would…

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Nurse your baby, it burns 500 calories a day because your body has to work to make milk.

As a type II diabetic I became frustrated at the contradictory medical advise I was getting from medical professionals so I purchased a medical textbook, Handbook of Exercise in Diabetes. I saw and read about NWMO in that book full of research papers. Took me a while to get through the book using a medical dictionary, but…

When you kids are around the house, Mother's Day is EVERYDAY!! :laugh: Don't celebrate me once a year, celebrate me everyday.

Welcome to the club. I was just castigated by someone because I worked out, "What do you want to do that for." It was on the tip of my tongue to yell, "AND THAT IS WHY YOU'RE OBESE" but it didn't fell off my tongue. Baby girl it's not only weight loss or healthy lifestyle living that brings out the saboteurs in friends and…

There is a medical term called Normal Weight Metabolically Obese (NWMO). That is when one has a normal "BMI" but their body fat percentage is in to obesity range, so I'm not sure if weight and height, and hip to waist measurements are always good indicators of one's body fat percentage. .

I've lost weight, but not the amount you have, and I've managed to keep it off for almost three years. I began working out, 15 minutes of fast walking, Feb of 2006; but because my main goal was controlling my type II diabetes, I just focused on movement and not my weight which was 175lbs. I was too embarrassed to even get…

I"m 60, 5' 3" and 135 pounds and according to my BAI scale my body fat hovers around 24 to 24.7%.

I wasn't on the team that designed EASA 2.0 nor do I know anyone who did, but I think they calibrated the HRM to take into consideration the resting calorie burn and subtract that out of the mix. There is a debate going on within the Sports Medicine and Fitness Professional communities on how to actual count "exercise"…

Brooklyn, New York, USA, born in North Carolina and stayed for a hot 9 months :laugh:

I'm sixty and when I was diagnosed in 2001, I was a hot mess, also known as a HAM (Hot *kitten* Mess). I have arthrities also, spine, knees, fingers, wrists. When I began my walking exercises (Feb of 2006), I could only do 15 minutes of fast walking and it took me one hour to recover. Everything hurt but I pushed on…