The 3 Keys
Information. Attitude. A System That Works.
The Three Keys to Control Diabetes For Life
The First Key: Information
Diabetes is more than just high blood sugar and “symptoms”. It’s a disease at the cellular level. To treat it effectively, you must understand diabetes and how it works. What it is and what it’s doing to you.
You or a friend or loved one may have experienced some or all of the signs and symptoms of diabetes or pre-diabetes. Without solid information about the short-term and the long-term signs and symptoms, you can only wonder.
Do you know the risk factors for diabetes? More to the point, do you know what your risk factors are? And if you’re at risk, do you know what you can do to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes?
If you have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you have probably been told to watch your weight and keep your blood sugars under control. That’s fine and you should follow that advice.
But has anyone explained to you where the real battle lies? It isn’t your blood sugar and it’s not your weight.
It’s your insulin resistance.
There is much more to insulin resistance than an insensitivity to insulin. It’s a terrible cycle that builds on itself, making you fatter and more insulin resistant as time goes by, making both your weight and blood sugar levels harder and harder to control.
Not to mention that the insulin resistance cycle unchecked could lead to a heart attack, stroke, or other unpleasant complications.
You can break the terrible grip of the insulin-resistance cycle, but it isn’t easy.
These are some of the reasons why you need good, solid information. This important key needs to be part of every diabetic’s arsenal in the battle with diabetes.
To get you started, I have prepared an informative report with important basic information that many diabetics don’t know — but they should. It’s called “What You Need To Know About Diabetes”.
It describes how diabetes works, the different types of diabetes, signs and symptoms and most important of all, the insulin-resistance cycle.
It’s for every person with diabetes or who cares for someone with diabetes.
Click here and I’ll send you the report. It’s free and there’s no obligation.
The Second Key: Attitude
A motto of the Lance Armstrong Foundation is “Unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything.”
If you’ve been diabetic for very long you’ve learned this already. You can start out gangbusters, but day in and day out, week after week and month after month it wears you down. You need a buffer and your own personal source of strength and perseverance to lift you up and out of it.
Twenty to forty per cent of all diabetics experience at least minimal to mild depression at any given time. According to a recent study, ninety per cent will suffer some degree of depression in any given five-year span.
Fortunately, there are steps you can take to minimize and even overcome diabetic depression.
None of those steps, however, include just thinking happy thoughts. I’m sorry to say this, but a lot of what passes for a “positive attitude” or “positive thinking” is just happy fluff instead of a determined attitude based in reality and core values.
The right attitude is not about affirmations and feeling good. It is about a determined commitment from the beginning and renewed all along the way that no matter how you feel or what mood you’re in, you will overcome whatever obstacles and setbacks come your way. You will do what you have to do to achieve and maintain control over your diabetes.
The right attitude is about focusing the direction of your life so that the ups and downs of living with diabetes don’t rule over you.
The Third Key: A System That Works
This third key puts the other two keys into practical daily living with diabetes. An organized and goal-oriented system makes the most efficient and effective use of your knowledge, time, energy and resources to successfully control your diabetes day in and day out.
Most diabetics have no system. Or they take an approach to controlling their diabetes that doesn’t really work. The system I use and teach does work, and it works well. The system rests on a simple and effective philosophy using the three main elements of Goals, Means and Measures.
GOALS – To get control over your diabetes you have to set specific goals. A specific goal gives you a clear target to aim for. And it is something you can measure to see how well or poorly you are progressing.
MEANS – Once you have set your goals you need to figure out how you’re going to get there. It’s like a map. You’ve plotted your starting point and your destination, now you need to figure the best route to get there.
MEASURES – You need to know where you are on the map. Are you on course or off track? So you measure your progress with regular checking, whether it’s your weight, glucose level, blood pressure, or whatever.
Of course, you should always work with your doctor in creating or adapting any system or specifics for your medical treatment.
My hope and intent with these three keys is to give you a good foundation in managing your diabetes. You need solid and reliable diabetes information. You need to develop the right attitude and mindset. You very likely also need to set better and healthier goals for yourself than whatever you’re doing now that doesn’t work.
There’s probably no better time to start than now. Take your life back from diabetes starting today. Here’s the link again to that free report.
