Taking care of yourself, living with Diabetes.

With diabetes and good diabetes management, the most important thing is that you do have regular input from healthcare professionals, whether it's an online input, whether it's face-to-face or whether it's some form of structured education programme. If you have yet not attended any structured education programs such as Desmond, Expert, Bertie or Daphne it's really really useful to attend one program that will offer you all a refresher on on the the knowledge of diet, lifestyle, exercise, carb counting, weight loss programs so it's really useful to sign up to one of a structured education program that is offered through your healthcare professional. If you struggle to attend any of these programs or are limited with time due to work or family constraints, you can go online and look for a program that is going to help you to learn more about diabetes management. The other most important thing is by keeping your weight down. If you are above a certain, a BMI is basically an indicator of to know whether your weight is accordingly healthy to your height. You can calculate your BMI using your phones, using any calculator online, and this will give you an indicator whether you are a healthy weight or slightly out of range. We know from evidence that if you keep your weight down you can improve your diabetes care and reduce your risk of developing long-term conditions. As easy it might sound just by following a good diet and doing regular exercise we can prevent from prevent ourselves from getting long-term complications of type 2 diabetes and type 1 diabetes. However, we need to remember that diabetes is something that you need to continuously remind yourself about the diet, the lifestyle, the activity, the motivation, and all this you can now get from online forums, from the apps, from books, lots of good websites out there have lots and lots of information, you just need to register yourself on them so that they can regularly send you updates about success stories, any blogs, any new articles, new research, new medicines, new information. So for example, we know there's lots of evidence coming out on how we can reverse our type 2 diabetes, especially for those people who are on their early days of their diabetes journey. The more we do around weight loss, exercise, sleep, motivation, meditation, the better our outcomes and the less likely are we are going to get long-term complications of diabetes.