Exercise

A New Way To Handle Exercise

By John Walsh, PA, CDE and Ruth Roberts, MA
Authors of Pumping Insulin and Using Insulin

"The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives."

Rev. Vaughan Quinn

Starting and maintaining behavior change is rarely easy. If in doubt, think about your last three New Year's resolutions. How many are you still keeping?

Extra Carbs for Exercise, or ExCarbs, provide the yardstick to measure the impact an exercise will have on the blood sugars.

Learn to control your diabetes with flexible insulin therapy (FIT). Why flexible insulin therapy? Think for a second and the answer is clear---that's what everyone else's pancreas is doing. Insulin is given in varying amounts depending on the need at that moment.