Train for the Race
Against Diabetes!
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You already know these basics . .
. so . . . how can we make this work?
--You have to train like an athlete for
this race, you have to form a team to train together,
and you must tell everyone you know that
you’re committed to training to win the race against diabetes!
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_Exercise! At least
five times a week, 30 minutes each time.
But more is better! You’re in
a race against diabetes—train like an athlete for the race! Join us training: www.racingagainstdiabetes.com Make exercise time your social time. Form a family team, or a team of friends,
and schedule training with them at the same time every day. Save your family and friends from getting
diabetes too! Ride, run, walk fast—as
a team! Keep training shoes at work, so you can walk briskly at
breaks or lunch. Train like the
athlete you can be! Tell everyone you’re an athlete in
training—that you’re training for the race against diabetes. Commit to your family and friends
that you’re going to win the race! Buy a bike and ride with your team—or buy a really good
stationary bike or a treadmill and ride/walk on it every day the entire hour
you watch Oprah! That’s five hours of
exercise a week! Spin fast with only
moderate tension, or walk fast, and get your heart rate up. Speaking of heart rate, buy a heart rate
monitor and wear it. It’s
self-motivating! Get together with friends on a bike ride or a fast walk,
instead of at a restaurant for two hours.
Form a Racing Against Diabetes team with your friends and your family,
and train together! Join a gym, talk to folks there to make friends, so they’ll expect to see you there. Or go to exercise classes and let someone order you around—but make friends there, too, so they’ll expect you to show up! |
_Eat smart! Food is just fuel. You only need to eat as much as you
use. But to lose weight, you’re going
to have to use stored fuel. The “smart” part means you’re going to have to be smarter
than your tongue or your tummy or the marketers who’ll try to make you
think some fat food is worth dying for . . . . You have a choice - which would you rather have,
supersized French fries or your toes?
Or kidneys? Or sight? “Ask yourself this question: Do I feel lucky today?” (Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry.) Ask yourself, do I really think I can
avoid kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, amputations, if I keep eating
this way? . . . Diabetes can be a
really miserable, long, ugly way to die.
Training’s much more fun than that . . . ! You know the basics:
Don’t skip meals. Do eat
breakfast. Eat a smart snack like an
apple or a cup of low-fat yogurt between meals. Put small portions on your plate. Eat slower. Reduce the
amount of fat you eat. Finish eating
by 7:00 p.m. And skip the buffet
restaurant. Drink enough water and get enough sleep. Being dehydrated or tired is easily
confused with being hungry. If you’re having a lot of trouble about eating, weigh
your food and write down everything you eat for a week. That’ll change things! If you’re not diabetic, don’t let yourself get it! You don’t really need ice
cream/candy/chips every day—or at all. Think about your fuel needs and choose how you want to
live and die. You’re too tough to let
diabetes get you! |
It’s not hopeless, and it’s not too late! You know how to lose weight—and we all know it’s not
easy!
Focus on training like an athlete with your kids, your whole family
and your friends!
You can avoid diabetes if you don’t have it, and avoid its
complications if you already have it!
You can do this!!