... is that you can eat everything that you used to eat before you were diagnosed with it.
You just have to cut back drastically and some foods more drastically than others. You like fries? you can eat fries, just maybe less fries than you're used to and if you're still hungry then you fill the gaps in your diet with more vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, carrots or whatever non-starchy vegetables you like. Hell, you can even eat starchy vegetables if you want but again, gotta cut back cause carbs can turn into sugar and too much sugar fucks up your blood glucose and a1c even more. cut soda out entirely imo unless you can stand the taste of diet soda which i can't. i just switched to water.
This has been my diabetes talk i guess lmao
Ever since I got diagnosed, I've lost 23 pounds. Apparently losing 10% of your weight from when you were diagnosed can lower your A1C considerably and i'm 2 pounds away from that so let's fucking go.
At first I was just walking on a treadmill but reading up on lowering your A1C actually shows that both aerobic AND lifting weights lowers your A1C even more (aerobic makes your body tired so it consumes more sugar and makes you more sensitive to insulin and weight lifting makes your muscles consume more sugar). Thing is, I've been lifting weights for a couple months now and just a few seconds ago, i raised my arms in a way where i actually noticed that my biceps have increased in size significantly. damn, is this what self-confidence feels like? lmao
IDK if it's true because it seems like a random ass website but hey. I AM pretty close to losing 30 pounds total... and in any case. even if i DO get my diabetes under control, i can't stop or it'll come back so my new routine is probably permanent. Also i apparently can't use exercise bikes anymore cause my right hip hurts so fucking bad when i do. getting old rules lmao